CHAPTER 5

On-Line

As I addressed briefly at the beginning of the chapter 3, in many situations the line between off-line and on-line is blurring significantly. But in broadcast TV, feature films, and advertising, a definite line and workflow still separate the off-line “creative” editorial from the on-line finishing “technical” editorial.

One of the reasons I was convinced to write this book was because the workflows that helped bridge that transition have radically changed in the last several years. Many editors who were used to working in specific ways to hand an off-line edit off to the finishing folks are living in a whole new world. Most of this is because of the death of film and videotape as we transition into an almost entirely file-based ...

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