

Because editors still can’t even view their films while editing, they’re forced to hold strips of film up to the light to make their cuts.ġ916 : The Technicolor color process makes its debut. Film exhibitors begin arranging one-shot films into coherent programs using the technology, described as “a primitive form of editing”.ġ900s : The first-ever cuts are made with scissors, tape, and editing tables (by the 1950s, tape will eventually be replaced with film cement). It films with celluloid at around 40 FPS.ġ894 : The Edison Vitascope, which includes a projector, debuts in the U.S. While linear editing is still performed today, it has largely been replaced by non-linear video editing (more on this later).ġ890 : The Kinetograph, the first-ever motion picture camera, is developed by Thomas Edison and trusted assistant William Dickson.

All video editing during the industry’s nascent period was through a process known as linear editing, a destructive form of editing performed sequentially in the order of the final edit.
