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Revision as of 13:13, 8 April 2003 by The Anome (talk | contribs) (The widespread availability of videotape editing led to the music video boom of the 1980s.)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Electronic video editing, which involved repeated over-recording from tape to tape was developed as a way of imitating film editing techniques using videotape.
Video editing by recording is now mostly obsolete, except for technical assembly of material, with non-linear editing systems being the normal way of performing creative editing.
Video editing reached its full potential in the 1970s when computer-controlled edit suite controllers were developed, which could orchestrate an edit based on an edit decision list (EDL), using timecode to synchronize the various tape machines and outboard devices.
The widespread availability of videotape editing led to the music video boom of the 1980s.