I got so caught up by that scene from The English Patient that I was zoned out for the next few sentences of John Hess's lecture when he came back. A nice demonstration of the power of editing.

I was lead engineering technician on the assembly line of the Sony BVE-3000 electronic editor in Palo Alto California, 1984. Three one inch type C VTRs (at my work station), built in audio and video switcher SEGs it was a full college education worth of knowledge for me. It was not even the best loved controller of the Sony series. But, it means a lot to me. I collect old video gear today and I have one of these editors in my collection. Long past its due date, all we can do is look at the silent carcass with love and longing. I'm good friends with the founder of Avid and know or met many of the big names in the industry, especially the VTR design team at Ampex.

I was fortunate enough to have started working in television when I was 16, in 1980. My father started 20 years before me and spoke about the major pain of developing and cutting video tape. This was the 1st time I ever saw an image of the process. Thanks, even if I'm 5 years too late. I've edited on all these devices and more. This brought back so many memories.

Congratulations on an outstanding presentation. I spent the years from 1977 to '07 as a commercial producer in New York. You've neatly compressed the evolution of video editing that I lived through in those 30 years. The first TV spots I made were on 2" quad; the last used mini DV for source material. I appreciate that you gave credit to Bing Crosby. He may or may not have been a good dad, but he is the father of both audio and video tape, through his funding of Ampex research.

Don't forget Newtek's VIDEO TOASTER. Loved that machine!

This video should be watched by everyone who is interested in/affiliated with creating film, vlogs, docu's, tv-shows, etc...

That was one of the nicest comments I have ever read. Thank you!

Great stuff from you guys! I'm a film professor and I use your videos as educational resources to supplement my lectures. Great work and thank you for the smart, informative, and entertaining videos.

This is an absolutely amazing video! It was well-made with great visuals, and kept my attention the whole time.

Excellent, excellent. Casually clicked the link and was instantly hooked. On to part two.

I used windows movie maker to edit on for the longest time but moved on to premiere pro in late 2014. Both were and are a fantastic learning experience. I don't care if I wasn't around when the old fashioned editing machines were being used, I'll always have a deep appreciation for them. The old b&w films we watch today to learn from were most likely cut on those machines.

Interesting, informative, compelling, with outstanding production value... Every video on this channel.

It's really nice to see you speak as passionately about this as you do

I actually worked on the very early quad machines doing physical editing. I have worked on every machine Ampex made. And WABD was a network is the longest on-air broadcast network in the world. It is still on the air as the Fox network now. I must point out, the electronic editing on quad machines had two modes of editing: assembly and insert. if you were building a show in a "linear" fashion, you would choose assembly mode, if you were modifying a show, you used insert mode. the difference was thay in assembly mode, the record machine layed down a new control track, where in insert mode, the control track was preserved. also in assembly there was not really a defined "out" point as it didn't matter because the next segment was going to write over the last bit of previous segment. Also the Editec system invented by Ampex, never had a microprocessor. Edited was merely a tone on the question track that signaled the in/out point of the edits. After editec came a timecode editor that used thumbwheels to set in/out points on Ampex equipment. Ampex was king of broadcast video tape. In fact the word "video tape" was copywrited by Ampex. RCA had to call it "television tape" also I must comment on the CMX 600system (which I worked on) it was the first system to use a light pen interface, I can only store 20 min of b&w images onto a sea of 300mb disk drives. the result was an edl on an 8" floppy to be used in an online CMX online edit system, where the actual edits took place. you could NEVER use the video output on the CMX 600 system, only output was an EDL. One of the companies I worked for obtained to source code for the online CMX editor and Re wrote it to use up to 26 video/audio sources (even film projectors) that used timecode. to standing a room with over 20 2" video tape machines, either playing back or locating thier cue points was a thing of beauty. if one machine could not reach its que point in time, the sysyem would stop the record and first input machine, wait for the second input machine to reach its cue point, then it would rewind the first input machine and the record machine to do an automatic "match cut", then do the edit it was supposed to do. At the time, I was the youngest ever to be nominated for an Emmy for editing. I remember when the world switched to tape from live. Sad moment.

I have only just discovered this channel, but let me say these videos and your presentation skills are simply wonderful. I have just passed 2 hours without realising! Please keep them coming :)

I've learned a lot today. I'm most definitely gonna be sure to watch this video again.

I love your videos because it provide new information and not the 3 point lighting guide like most others youtube channel.

I first started editing in the early 90s - all linear, but one thing that helped was video LAN (rs422) and computer control of the switcher and the VTR. Reassembling the entire production for changes was as easy as popping all the tapes in and hitting go.

I just LOVE the way you present the information. I don't know exactly how to say it, but it's like I start watching any of your clips, and I can not NOT watch. As if it's something I didn't know that I needed to know it, but once I start watching it, I realize that it will make me smarter.... not only that, but I also really enjoy learning from you. I once heard a quote about an author, when somebody said "You're like eating vegetables, and having it taste like dessert"... you're like that :)

So Avid actually invented Drag & Drop editing.

It's a mix of stuff found in articles on the web, videos - all put together to try to tell as coherent a story as we can.

Check out the link in the video description - it links to the course we have on the site and the written page is essentially the script that I'm reading off:

I cut my first short film, shot on 16mm, scanned to video and EDL turned to cut list in 1991. I used a demo system from Avid. Blown up stamps for video, but still... :-)

in all seriousness, this video should be playing in the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit Michigan...and if they don't have a film area (which if remember correctly, they do have some sort), then this should be the FIRST!

It is worth mentioning that before the coast to coast network, kinescopes were made in New York and shipped to the west cost to be broadcast one week later. And they were flown to Hawaii. . . And the old "I Love Lucy" show was filmed live with multiple cameras in LA edited and shipped to the east coast for broadcast.

It's important to clarify that the EditDroid software was sold to the company that would eventually become Avid. It was the Avid's direct predecessor.

My first go at editing was copying from camcorder (those giant things back then) to VHS tape. So grateful for digital, so convenient, and you can add titles and music, and do green screen, and....

Awesome historical analysis!

Love the education!

This was wonderful!!! Loved the history! I want to own every single old editor that existed as a collection. You're brilliant sir! What's your name? I'm Jonathan Holeton. May I ask are you Filipino Canadian or Filipino American? My wife is from the Philippines. Going to watch your 2nd part now! I'm so grateful video editing, VFX, motion graphics, 3d, animation, etc. are all very accessible to everyone now... it's a great time to be a creator!

To be exact. Helical scan has little to do with bandwidth. Quad scanned the tape transversely, limiting the number of lines that could be read by the rotating drum. It required 4x heads on the drum to get a whole frame per rotation, hence the name "quadruplex". Helical scan allowed one head to read the entire frame in one pass, but the bandwidth is similar to quad decks. BTW, I still think 1" Type-C can look quite good under the right conditions. It was a staple of television production till the late 80s. Any way, great work as always.

15:49 7 terabytes!? When the average computer hard drive was 250 MB. Holy Shit!

Is there any video in KZfaq that shows film editors from the first era of Hollywood working? Where you can see the old cutting machines and tables in action.

Amazing!

(Gah, so close to being your thousandth like!) Again, thank you for all the great knowledge you share in your vids. Must cut this comment short to get to part 2!

the talking between the two president was so funny

@Becky Morris-Ashton - everything mentioned up to about 12:55 is what would be considered Linear editing.

After reading the title of this video I was expecting a lecture on Tarantino's narrative style. Still wasn't disappointed though :P

It's the same concept but the technology is obviously much better these days :)

I think genre studies would be pretty cool.

It could be great if you make a video on "HOW & WHY TO SLATE"

What part of film Theory would you like to see?

Speaking about editing, your cut after the 18:05 mark came over the climax of the film :P

Wow amazing, I wonder how do you do this research its insane ?

Montage. Or maybe talk about the importance of the french school or my favourite , the sovietic school .

Editdroid and the avid/1 may be the most advanced NLE systems from the 80's,whoooaaah dit 7 terabyte of disk space already existed back in 1993?,holy sh!t.

Thank you so much. I'd never seen the Kitchen Debates before. It's rather remarkable that a medium so full of promise at it's outset has degenerated to reality television in our generation.

Ah, The English Patient, I hated that film, I worked in a theater during its debut and at times every 10 mins or so it would break. If I recall a lot of other theaters had the same problem with that film. one day I will watch it and hopefully something does not break.

At least many good prerecorded programs used some variety of 35mm movie film so we can go past the NTSC and PAL resolutions. Think ST:TOS & ST:TNG. Sadly it doesn’t seem like ST:VOY & ST:DS9 will get a HD release anytime soon for cost reasons and having to redo effects shots in HD.

dude, you're fucking awesome!

The Journey to Modern Non-Linear Editing (Part 2) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ms54hNpmrNjbqIk.html

Can you do a Film Theory video ?

Some movies you cut out the boring parts, the whole film is on the cutting room floor.

The first company that was able to record the image on tape was the BBC with the Vera system and not the Bill Cosby team, and the BBC system was created a decade earlier.

Hmmm... America was already broadcasting commercial television before and during the WWII. "Television's experimental period ended when the FCC allowed full commercial telecasting to begin on July 1, 1941. NBC's New York station W2XBS received the first commercial license*, adopting the call letters WNBT and later, moved from Channel 1 to Channel 4. The first official, paid television advertisement on that day, the first commercial broadcast by any station in the United States, was for Bulova Watches, and was seen just before the start of a Brooklyn Dodgers baseball telecast on WNBT. A test pattern, featuring the newly assigned WNBT call letters, was modified to look like a clock, complete with functioning hands. The Bulova logo, with the phrase "Bulova Watch Time", was shown in the lower right-hand quadrant of the test pattern." eyesofageneration.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/The-History-of-NBC-New-York-Television-Studios-Volume-1-of-2-Rev-Aug-17.pdf

could you do a more in-depth into Linear Editing, please! Thanks :)

And here I am sitting in front of an Avid in 2018.

Was that video of Nixon and Kruschev really in color, or did they colorize it after the fact?

Woa, Sayid from Lost

4:00 One thing I don't understand - if movies existed in the 1930s why was it not possible to record videos onto tape until the 1950s?

Please I need help like right now, I just wanted to know, is everything that he mentions in this video all non-linear or are some parts linear? If anyone knows please could you help me out and leave a reply, thanks :)

13:55 I'll lay in my grave without having earned that much during my entire life even if I lived to be 90! (Granted I have a junk job, but that's remarkable anyway).

What are the sources of your information ?

I love ur what are u teaching about ,And the way better than my Proffessor,thanks so much ur video,hope u can make more nice film video to teach us,Can i have a suggest?see, i cam a Asian ,and I love ur Teaching Video,But i am not good at english ,must of time only can under stand 80%.so Can u post video with the english subtitles ?then many pepole all over the world who doesnt read english well still can understand ur video show ,thanks so much ^^

Wow where is that clip of the monkey editing from! I want to see that.

Avid/1 looks like a basic version of Windows Movie Maker :-)

Khruschev looks and sounds like sweet naive grandpa.

Yea, go ahead. Completely ignore Pre-Read Editing and Digital tape.

14:48 you forgot to deinterlace video

Oh wow you just flew by the editdroid...

Микита Сергійович Хрущов - so it's Hroosh-chov, not Kru-schev.

Wow... "Tricky Dick" was doing amazingly long and awkward handshakes long before Trump! Who knew?

Damn... Editing was a bitch.

why he looking like al from toy story 2

1947 - 2 years after the WWII ended, not 3. ;)

Moviolas have been around since the mid-1920s, not 1930s.

6:13 His name is Nikita, smh.

the most video

Oh you jerk. You let the tension build and then cut before we could see the ending of the bomb clip. Did they make it!? :p

The one person who disliked this video must be crazy

Kind of skipped the process of off-line and auto assembly.

Say Cheese!

Me: (watching on the 83rd anniversary of BBC's first brodcast)

Hmmm... all very good... but please: no colorized videos!! It was ALL black and white then, as you know.