Linear video editing

Linear video editing is a video editing post-production process of selecting, arranging, and modifying images and sound in a predetermined, ordered sequence. Regardless of whether it was captured by a video camera, tapeless camcorder, or recorded in a television studio on a video tape recorder (VTR) the content must be accessed sequentially.

Video editing software has mostly replaced linear editing. Previously, film editing was done in a linear fashion, where film reels were literally cut into long strips divided by takes and scenes and then glued or taped back together to create a logical sequence of film. Linear video editing is more time-consuming, highly specialized, and tedious work. Still, it is relevant today because of these reasons:

  • Linear video editing is simple and inexpensive.
  • Mandatory for some jobs: for example, if only two sections of video clips are to be joined together in sequence, it is often the quickest and easiest way.
  • Some video editors still learn linear editing skills, as it increases their knowledge as well as their versatility. According to many professional editors who learn linear editing skills first, they tend to become more proficient, all-around editors.

Until computer-based random access non-linear editing systems (or, NLE, for short) first appeared in the early 1990s, linear video editing was simply called video editing.

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