1901 - Edwin S. Porter showed the film didnt have to be one
long still. He used footage to tell a different story to what the
footage was originally meant to show.
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1908 - D.W Griffiths used the first continuity cut in his film
For Love of God Griffiths realised that characters emotions could
be portrayed in a different way by using different camera angles
and the pace of editing was changed. Griffiths was given credit for
the discovery of the close-up.
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The Birth of a Nation was a short film which was based on a
1915 novel called the Clansman. The film features camera techniques
such as long shots, still shots, iris effects, cross cutting and
many more.
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Eisenstein demonstrated this with his, 1925 Battleship
Potemkin- Montage. Montages were created by a Russian director
called Lev Kuleshov.
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Analogue editing was used before computer editing. Film was cut
and pasted into a specific order then put through a machine called
a Moviola or a KE.M. Things like Final Cut, or Adobe are now used
as its a much faster and easier way of editing. 1971 The first
truly non-linear edit was introduced. The CMX 600.
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1980s Various approximations of non-linear editing systems were
built. 1983 Ediflex introduced on an universal series. (Offline
non-linear editing) Used on 80% of filmed network programs.
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1991 Non-linear editing was formalized with the publication of
Michael Rubins: A Guide to Digital Film and Video Editing.
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1993- The Avid Media Composer was used for commercial editing,
however since 1989 the Avid Composer has become the dominant
non-linear editing and finishing software.