13 Facts About Non-linear editing

Non-linear editing is a form of offline editing for audio, video, and image editing.

Non-linear editing system is a video editing program or application, or an audio editing digital audio workstation system.

Conventional film Non-linear editing is a destructive process because the original film must be physically cut to perform an edit.

Non-linear editing method is similar in concept to the cut and paste techniques used in IT.

End product of the offline non-linear editing process is a frame-accurate edit decision list which can be taken, together with the source tapes, to an online quality tape or film editing suite.

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Costs of editing systems have dropped such that non-linear editing tools are now within the reach of home users.

Since then the rise in semi-professional and domestic users of Non-linear editing software has seen a large rise in other titles becoming very popular in these areas.

Non-linear editing systems were built in the 1980s using computers coordinating multiple LaserDiscs or banks of VCRs.

An example of computing power progressing to make non-linear editing possible was demonstrated in the first all-digital non-linear editing system, the "Harry" effects compositing system manufactured by Quantel in 1985.

Eidos chose the new ARM-based computers from the UK and implemented an Non-linear editing system, launched in Europe in 1990 at the International Broadcasting Convention.

The Optima software Non-linear editing system was closely tied to Acorn hardware, so when Acorn stopped manufacturing the Risc PC in the late 1990s, Eidos discontinued the Optima system.

At around the same time, Avid—now with Windows versions of its Non-linear editing software—was considering abandoning the Macintosh platform.

An early concern with non-linear editing had been picture and sound quality available to editors.