In the early days of electronic video production, linear (tape-to-tape) editing was the only way to edit video tapes. In the 1990s, non-linear editing computers became available and opened a whole new world of editing power and flexibility. The ever evolving video technology helped improve videos on quality, and video editing on your computer makes it even easier. Until the advent of computer-based random access non-linear editing systems (NLE) in the early 1990s “linear video editing” was simply called “video editing” The costs of editing systems have dropped such that non-linear editing tools are now within the reach of...
