How to edit video
- added December 6, 2007
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- cwhite
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For those of you that learned to edit on Final Cut Pro, iMovie, Avid Express and such, be thankful you were born when you were. This is quite possibly the most tedious editing process ever.
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I had the great pleasure of learning to edit video when it was still done with tape decks, complete with generation loss and all.
Sony RM-450, anyone? Oh the days of jogging and shuttling are indeed lost on the latest generation of editors.-
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- Justin_Gunn
- 7 months ago
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Here's to been born in the 80's!
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Dude, yeah. I, for one, miss linear editing. If you realized halfway in that you'd made a mistake in the beginning, you had to redo EVERYTHING AFTER IT. In all seriousness, though, I do have nostalgia for the logging and shuttling. That was cool.
This video's intense, though. Rehearsals for editing seem like a nightmare. -
Rowan and Martins Laugh-in, which had hundreds of edits in each show, was done this way each week by one woman.
In the early days of film, editing was done by woman because it was considered unimportant and mundane.
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RM-440, 3/4'' tape to tape is how I learned. Moved up to 1", D2, D1, CMS with GrassValley.
Then came the Avid.
There is not a day that I miss linear editing. Not ever. -
Heh. love the vid.
I honed my chops on a Steenbeck 6-plate
and resisted the move to non-linear until it became
totally impractical to work with celluloid (i.e., i was not longer a film student)
Still in love with 16mm, though. I miss splicing blocks, perforated tape, grease pencils, trim bins and actually being able to touch the media. mmmm, touching the media. -
This is what I first learned to edit on. Super 8 dude. Super awesome is more like it. And dgahr, I'm going to flag your comment as inappropriate to the current dot com community. "touching the media?" Disgusting. -
If you're really any good, you don't have to touch the media to have the meda touch you. ;)
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I learned on a Steenbeck as well, and I too sometimes miss the "messier" type of editing that working with film provided. I stole a film splicer from my alma mater for sentimental reasons. It's now a prized relic on my bookcase.
Then I moved to video and tape-to-tape editing on the revolutionary format known as Hi-8. When we got Avids at my school my junior year, I was actually resistant to it for a while, until I learned the joy that is nonlinear.
I gave up my Bolex a few years ago after finally realizing that I was never, ever going to work in film again. Guess I didn't miss it that much! -
I dropped out of film school because they made us edit on steinbecks. I said no thanks
I like computers.
i dont doubt there is something to be learned from editing with the traditional hardware, but who has the time these days?-
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- stephenthomson
- 7 months ago
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Holy crap! I thought I had it rough!
I've done audio tape splicing with razors and sticky tape in college. I also had the pleasure of using the Panasonic MX50 (not too sure on the #), which was used with S-VHS or 3/4 inch tapes. Awesome. Now we use a massive server and all NLE in the newsroom. It still craps out.-
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- Al_Bondigas
- 18 days ago
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