Offline-Editing

When offline editing or offline editing some kind of video editing is called, in which the section is created by using a reduced in quality and file size copy, instead of directly driving the original material using an editing system, which in the early days of video editing as " Online Edit " was called.

The two terms "Online / Offline " comes from the telecommunications terminology and refers in this use on the direct control of a system by another (online ) and the independent operating a system of a second (offline).

With the advent of non- linear editing systems such as Avid - the first market-ready version was available in 1989 - was the term " offline editing " with the changing way of working when cutting. The non- linear systems were initially ( and there are a feature film, with its comparatively large amounts of data to date) will not be able to process footage in broadcast quality and in real time. Therefore we separated the editing workflow into two parts: the first part all footage is copied and scaled down to a resolution that takes into account the capacity of the hardware used. In this quality, the cut is finalized. This part of the process is called since then the offline edit or offline editing, because it does not use as opposed to online Edit originally called process directly on the original material, but disconnected it works. The reduced quality of copied material is called offline quality.

In the second part of the editing process, the final offline edit is " rebuilt " with access to the original material in the highest possible quality. This part is called since then online edit.

This distinction is becoming less functional: In the early years of the video only editing software and hardware were still different for offline and online use Edit. With the ever increasing capabilities of software and hardware, it is now possible, at one and the same system to cut (about the AVID) from the outset in online quality. Therefore, editing systems, increasingly lossless in online quality. The conceptual distinction between offline and online editing is not helpful for this new workflow. Sensibly it remains for all methods working with the intermediate step of the deteriorated copy.