A small partner engaged in film and television must know what a non-editing system is. In today's article, Bian Xiao introduces the right and wrong editing system to some friends who intend to engage in film and television post-production.
Non-editing system is a systematic tool for post-editing of film and television. His full name is nonlinear editing system, which is relative to linear editing. In the era when we were still showing movies on film, we cut videos by hand, which is the so-called linear editing system.
With the continuous development of science and technology, we have workstations, non-editing software, monitors and color charts, and people's editing of movies is no longer a simple form of editing. By combining the above electronic devices, it becomes a non-editing system. It is a video editing system through software and hardware, which can cut and modify the material and perform multi-stream operation of real-time special effects, real-time video, animation graphics and audio.
Looking back at the era of linear editing, to complete a job, many professionals need to cooperate vigorously, load and unload tapes, complete editing control and synthesis operation based on computers, and complete sound design through special means in a special production space. All the work can be done by one person and one computer, that is to say, as long as you have a reasonable computer, a family DV camera, a video capture card, plus a little creativity of your own, and of course master the nonlinear editing software, you can make a "blockbuster" that entertains yourself.
Of course, the use of nonlinear editing is not just for self-entertainment. Nonlinear editing may bring not only an editing tool to professional editors, but also a fundamental change in working methods and concepts. Nowadays, nonlinear editing system is widely used in film and television post-production to speed up the digitalization process of program production, which means that editors should take on more responsibilities and master more skills.
So, what is the non-editing system made of?
system composition
Nonlinear editing card
Video card is the core component of nonlinear editing system. An ordinary microcomputer, graphics card and editing software can form a basic nonlinear editing system. Its performance index fundamentally determines the quality of nonlinear editing system. Many video cards are no longer simple video processing devices, they integrate real-time acquisition, compression, decompression and playback of video and audio signals. One card can complete the whole process of video and audio signal processing with high cost performance.
Non-editing workstation
Most of the early nonlinear editing systems chose MAC platform, because MAC has great advantages in interaction and multimedia compared with PC. However, with the continuous development of PC technology, the performance and market advantage of PC are increasing. Most manufacturers of new nonlinear editing systems tend to adopt Windows operating system. The hard disk used in nonlinear editing system is different from ordinary hard disk, which needs high speed, up to 8Mbps, and large capacity. The workstations configured by our company are mainly enterprise-level hard disks, and the SSD 240G system hard disk plus SATA 4T hard disk can generally meet the basic needs of users.
Creation software
After years of development, non-editing software has produced many brands and types in the market.
Commonly used video software Adobe Premiere:Adobe's video and audio editing software Premiere based on nonlinear editing equipment has achieved great success in the field of film and television production. Now it is widely used in TV stations, advertising production, film editing and other fields, and has become the most widely used video editing software on PC and MAC platforms.
EDIUS software is specially designed for broadcast and post-production environment, especially for journalists and video production and storage without tape. EDIUS has a complete file-based workflow, providing real-time, multi-track and multi-format mixing, synthesis, color keys, subtitles and timeline output functions. In addition to the standard EDIUS series format, it also supports Infinity? JPEG 2000, DVCPRO, P2, VariCam, Ikegami GigaFlash, MXF, XDCAM, Sony RAW, canon RAW, RED R3D and XDCAM EX video materials. Support all DV, HDV cameras and video recorders at the same time.
The rest also includes many mainstream software products such as Apple's non-editing software Final Cut Pro X.
Of course, a complete non-editing system also includes hardware devices such as monitors, color palettes and disk arrays.