Summer task 3 - Development of Editing

The Development of Editing Technology

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When film first became popularised there were no forms of editing used. Films were simply one time consuming shot that maybe told a story; by the time that editing did begin to make an appearance it was very simplistic and basic. The early forms of editing involved an editor physically holding film up to a light and cutting it at a specific moment where a cut needed to take place and glueing this to another part of the film resulting in a cut. Although this was incredibly tedious and lengthy work, it lay the foundations for editing and allowed it to develop and grow from there.

Moviola
The Moviola was the invention that next came along to further the development of editing technology. Invented by Iwan Serrurier, the Moviola allowed filmmakers to view their film whilst editing and is the first machine designed specifically for motion picture editing. It also allowed editors to view and focus on individual shots an therefore decide where is best to cut, this made editing more accurate and precise.

Flatbed Editor

After the Moviola, editing continued to grow and improve and by 1953 the first flatbed 16mm 4 plate was created by Steenbeck. Steenbeck is renowned for his contributions in the film industry and so when he decided to produce his own brand of new editing technology, word spread fast. The machine employed a rotating prism that allowed the editor to move the film smoothly and continuously, reducing mechanical noise and film wear. It also made high-speed operation feasible, and some machines could move the film at up to ten times standard speed.

Kinescope Recording

Kinescope recording was the process of recording a television broadcast onto a film reel by pointing a camera at a video monitor as it played the footage. The result was a poor-quality, grainy recording of the material. This was the common method for showing television productions in other markets during the early 1950s, before the invention of video tape.

Quadruplex Videotape

2-inch quadruplex video tape (also called 2″ quad, or just quad, for short) was the first practical and commercially successful analog recording video tape format. It was developed and released for the broadcast television industry in 1956. This format revolutionized broadcast television operations andtelevision production, since the only recording medium available to the TV industry before then was film used for kinescopes, which was much more costly to utilize and took time to develop at a film laboratory. In addition, kinescope images were usually of obviously inferior quality to the live television broadcast images they recorded, whereas quadruplex videotape preserved almost all the image detail of a live broadcast.

Non- Linear Editing