What is non-linear editing like?
This section has been revised to use Final Cut Pro’s terminology but I will keep the old screenshots for now. I now use a 23 inch Cinema Display and a screen shot of my current screen would be overwhelming. [Added 7 June 1998] All non-linear editing programs work in a basically similar way. This specific explanation focuses on Final Cut; fortunately, the new Premiere interface looks quite similar. The first step is to capture all the video you intend to have in your finished tape. The best way to keep track of clips is to capture one clip per scene. For example, in my bird video, I had one bird nodding his head in a cute way and wiggling his wings. I captured those as two separate scenes, so I could rearrange them during editing. Clips first reside in the “Bin”, to the left. As you can see, the bin can be split into separate directories so you can easily find the clips you want.
[Added 7 June 1998] All non-linear editing programs work in a basically similar way. This specific explanation focuses on EditDV; fortunately, the new Premiere interface looks quite similar. The first step is to capture all the video you intend to have in your finished tape. The best way to keep track of clips is to capture one clip per scene. For example, in my bird video, I had one bird nodding his head in a cute way and wiggling his wings. I captured those as two separate scenes, so I could rearrange them during editing. Clips first reside in the “Bin”, to the left. As you can see, the bin can be split into separate directories so you can easily find the clips you want. Generally, you split the clips into folders during capture, and then drag the folders into EditDV, where they become multiple bins as you see in this screen capture. You can double click the clips in the bin to move them to the monitor window: The source monitor window lets you trim the clips to the right length. Pac
