CHAPTER 20
Principles and Process of Digital Editing
DIGITAL EDITING FUNDAMENTALS
Virtually all film projects, whether they’re destined for television, DVD, or theatrical release, regardless of being shot on film, standard DV, or HD, are edited on a digital, nonlinear editing system (or NLE for short). Editing in the digital domain means that all visual and aural components of the project, no matter what their original form, must be turned into digital data called media files and brought into a computer running specialized editing software. In Final Cut Pro, the video media files are saved in the QuickTime format, and in the Avid system, they ...
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