Digital video editing

Digital video editing

By Digital editing what we mean is simply editing a digital version of video rather than an analog version. Instead of using a tape based analog medium to store the info, you are using digital bits and bytes to store the video and audio. Some call it desktop editing, some call electronic editing, some call it NLE (nonlinear editing) . Regardless of what you call it, it is all basically the same as a non-linear editing. The differences are flexibility,quality and ease of use.

As you are not actually playing and recording scenes onto a new tape, you can easily and quickly try out different editing patterns. You can try out one series of scenes for your production. If you don’t like it, you can move them around and try out a different series. You can add in new scenes or take out ones that do not work. With an analog tape based system, you would have to start from scratch, re-laying the scenes down on the tape each time you made a change.

Digital editing also improves overall image quality. Because you are using a digital format, making changes and copies does not result in generation loss – you are simply copying a digital representation of the video. That is unless you do a lot of signal compression, decompression and re-compression.