Chapter 10
Nonlinear Editing
Just as hard disk editing systems have become an intrinsic part of the audio production process, so disks have found applications in film and video editing too. It is customary to call this kind of editing ‘nonlinear’ in the visual environment, obviously because tape and film store images in a line whereas a hard disk offers almost instantaneous two-dimensional access to any part of the data. Nonlinear editing as a concept really dates back to film, because even though film itself is linear, the ‘line’ can be split apart and new material cut in – something which video tape cannot do (not since the days of Quadruplex anyway). Conceptually, film is the perfect editing medium since everything that you might want to do ...
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