Video Field Production and Editing, 7th Edition

CHAPTER 12

Nonlinear Video Editing

 

 

 

Although videotape is still widely used for field acquisition, the use of linear videotape editing systems has largely been supplanted by a new generation of digital nonlinear editing systems (see Figure 12.1).

NONLINEAR VIDEO EDITING

The process through which audio and video are edited in computer-based video editing systems that provide random access to the video and audio information during the editing process, and in which edits are made with a “cut-and-paste” process similar to the way text is edited in a word processing program, is referred to as nonlinear editing (NLE). Today’s digital nonlinear video editing systems (DNLEs) take advantage of the computer’s ability to record and play back pictures ...