History of Video Editing charts the captivating journey of assembling moving images, from razor blades and glue to today's sophisticated digital systems.
It explores how technological advancements, creative innovations, and cultural shifts have shaped the field of film editing, impacting visual storytelling and cinematic language.
Did you know early film editors manipulated frames to create special effects, and that each leap in editing technology redefined narrative construction?
The book uniquely links the evolution of editing technology to the development of film and television as art forms.
The book delves into the mechanical era, the transition to analog video editing, and the rise of non-linear digital systems, highlighting the ingenuity required to overcome technical limitations.
It emphasizes how each technological leap was intertwined with broader societal and artistic movements.
Beginning with pioneering techniques like film splicing, the book progresses through analog video's real-time challenges to the digital revolution's non-linear editing, digital effects and compositing, ultimately leading to the current state of cloud-based workflows and AI.
