Editing the Picture: 2
Off-Line Editing
The essential point about off-line editing is that the master material is transferred to a lower quality, and often more flexible format while the creative decisions are made about its order. In the past this was a non-broadcast videotape format but nowadays is it is invariably a non-linear editing system using a computer. This has the advantage of:
- not wearing out the master material;
- reducing the cost of ‘thinking’ time by not tying up expensive on-line equipment;
- allowing the process to be more flexible with non-linear editing systems.
Off-line video editing originally supposed that the master material was in the form of timecoded rolls of videotape which would eventually be edited almost automatically ...
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