As the old man, once a movie editor, sat reminiscing, his grand daughter approached him with the new video she had just created in iMovies. It didn’t take him much time to spiral down the lane and back to the dates when film editing meant manually cutting and sticking ends of film strips. Technology has always helped man jump leaps with progressive steps. Whether it be going from the heavy, rigid and thick VCR to the all-accommodating Netflix. Technology facilitates ease and that’s what it did in the case of creating videos or films. With the advent of digital media it became possible to cut, join, trim frames with ease and at our disposal. This process in turn stimulates creativity and added different concepts to the idea and extent of video editing. The job profile going from skilled labour who cut films to tech experts who actively participate in graphic design.
The film editor works with the raw footage, selecting shots and combining them into sequences which create a finished motion picture. Film editing is described as an art or skill, the only art that is unique to cinema, separating filmmaking from other art forms that preceded it, although there are close parallels to the editing process in other art forms such as poetry and novel writing. Film editing is often referred to as the “invisible art” because when it is well-practiced, the viewer can become so engaged that he or she is not aware of the editor’s work.
With the advent of digital editing, film editors and their assistants have become responsible for many areas of filmmaking that used to be the responsibility of others. For instance, in past years, picture editors dealt only with just that—picture. Sound, music, and (more recently) visual effects editors dealt with the practicalities of other aspects of the editing process, usually under the direction of the picture editor and director. However, digital systems have increasingly put these responsibilities on the picture editor