Online-Editing

As an online editing or on-line editing some kind of video editing was originally referred to, in which the cutting operation of a computer or to appropriate video system was controlled. The meaning has changed with the evolution of the interface technology.

Term conversion

The term " online " is derived from the telecommunications terminology and in this context means " under the control of another system ". Online editing systems such as SONY BVE -9000 were different VCR using commands such as drive "Play" and in this way create a linear section from different video and audio sources, " Fast Forward ", "copy ".

With the advent of non- linear editing systems such as Avid - the first market-ready version was available in 1989 - changed this meaning of online 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 he, unlike the original line -edit process called not directly drives 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. Only this part is now called yet online edit.

However, this distinction is becoming less important, and the meaning of " online editing " is changing again: In the early years of the video Editings still different software and hardware used for offline and online 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. Online editing is " cut in line quality " in this case, since equivalent.