History of Video Editing As Fast As Possible 

My mom used to work for a local news station. She did all that video tape editing stuff, and she finds it really cool how things are done these days. My, how times change.

it's like film school all over again

Imagine editing a RU-vid video the old school way :-/

The video editors did an amazing job editing this video.

How much bridge? Muybridge.

This was pretty cool.

This is the best video (editing wise) that has been made on this channel.

The first practical video tape recorder actually marketed to networks and television stations was released in 1956 by Ampex corporation. This format became the world standard for videotape for nearly 30 years. One of these machines is shown at 4:14 in this video. It used 2" wide tape and employed a headwheel spinning at over 14,000 rpm to record the TV picture in 17 (scan) line segments across the width of the tape from top to bottom (shown at 4:24), therefore making it possible to do cut and splice editing (nearly analogous to film editing) by cutting between the right tracks as described.

Thank you for this, Linus! Very well done! And Merry Christmas from the Philippines!

I've been waiting for this. Thanks, Linus

3:47 to 3:53, story of my childhood.

Wait........ did you just say JIF??????

That squeaking sound effect at 0:15 is my Facebook notification sound. I thought I was popular for a second.

Im so amazed on how far we have came, I honestly respect the old school methods alot💯

SuperSaf TV sent me here, and I am not disappointed. GREAT VIDEO!

I like your presentation of film and video works because your show is very comprehensive enough to give me an interest in sight and sound.

Great topic, great video! Can you do a video on how graphics (like titles, names etc.) were added back in the old days on the films?

I got to use Avid while in college and during an internship at Montana PBS, and I loved it. I have to use Velocity ESX at work, and while it gets the job done, it leaves a lot to be desired.

Great breakdown. Only one thing missing: In the 50s and 60s, they would often time reserve a monitor just for a film camera that would film the video on the screen. That is how we have at least SOME of what was aired live available for the archives now.

Cool quick history of moving pics. Thanks. In 1987 in Santa Barbara CA I produced a network TV series on 1 inch and 3/4 inch videotape which could only be edited a few generations down. VHS 1/2 inch tape can only be edited about 3 generations down before it is all washed out (a copy from the original is one generation, then a copy from that copy is the second generation etc). BUT, in 1987 the studio switched to digital editing and then we could edit an unlimited number of generations and never loose any quality since it was all digital. The copies came out as good as the original. Awesome technology that allowed editors to now do things that were impossible before (massive multiple layered effects etc).

More about the splicing. You can't see the splices on professional films. They made edit lists and perhaps cut the negatives and made positives. Would like to see a little more detail on that. I've made some Super 8 films and the splices, while clear, tend to attract dust and dirt, and sometimes don't go smoothly through the projector. So I'm curious how the pros did it.

This was high quality as fuck. Great work. Perfect explanations and very informative and covers a wide range of the topic.

Videos on Christmas? What a nice present

Nice summation!

Glad to see real Linus is back

Good video! I was always interested in this.

I just love this video

I laughed so hard when the Premiere error message popped up the first time! Great video!

I would absolutely love a segment on old school media broadcasting. :)

Very good!!

Damn, we've come such a long way

Who edited this, 'expensively' totally is a word, don't ever doubt Linus ;)

This was fun to watch only because when I started editing videos I used multiple vcr's and my Panasonic A/V mixer.

I think this video could have added the significance of things such as Apple, modems, internet, all the way to youtube to show how the video industry really exploded. The series of products and factors are what made video editing such a crucial tool nowadays.

Interesting... Thanks linus!!

Nice editing on this one, like the effects

The Taran editing is gold on this video

This Is a Very Very Useful Video, Bro! :)

i have been watching your fast as possible and this was the best video

Who thinks Linus should do a retro gaming PC and by retro i mean Pentium 3 and voodoo SLI or something like it

I WANTED TO KNOW HOW THEY DID IT BETWEEN THE FILM AND COMPUTER ERA, FINALLY! Thanks for explaining :D

I love this video

If you're interested in the history of filmography. You've got to watch the film "Hugo". The Lumiere brothers is mentioned and George Melies is a striking plot protagonist.

Linus Media as fast as possible. Seriously, where did these guys come from and why are they so good?

Great video. Thank you.

wow, the web needs more content like this!

Hey Linus, do you have any idea how "Films/Video" made Intros, or, Special effects without computers back in those days?

Your videos are so useful unlike Marques and Unbox therapy

Those pronunciations made me die a little Haha, BUT you showed a lot of my favourite old movies journey to the moon was groundbreaking!!!! :D

Taran's going to have a blast doing this one

crazy how we take these things for granted

Welp, they never heard of the Kinescope.

You should have mentioned the Video Toaster and also made mention of 3/4" tape, Beta Cam and a few other tape formats.

did you just say jif

I looooooooooooooooooooooooooove the edits.

I love how the sponsorship ad is at the end xD

@Techquickie I was wondering if you guys could do a series on what it would take to get people 4k ready filming, editing, and hardware. Also explaining VR production and how people can get into it would be nice. imo that sounds like a few easy million views ;) on this channel or main. Also I was wondering what offline and online video editing are and how they got their name?

History of fast as possible as fast as possible next?

does someone know what software uses this "star on a film" icon wich can be seen at 5:57 ? i once had it, liked it but lost and forgot it. i can't find it anymore :(

Does anyone remember the name of the video where Linus shows how the Media Group edit videos for the channels ? I saw that one pop up the other day but didn't have chance to watch it and I can't find it anywhere in the 2 channels :(

can you please do an episode on how to build or modify desktop so we can use it to convert the VHS to DVD.

Techquicki So you use Premiere? So is ALLL of Adobe products subscription based now, or is there any editing programs they offer i can just buy once an done? Yea, I was all on board the Adobe train during CS6 but after they moved to Creative cloud, it's jus felt like you have to get it all or you get nothin. Do you know why they do it like this now? id jus as soon think they are just being greedy

Imagine,making RU-vid videos using film, the old school. You edit/cut it like back in the very days of movie editing. That must be very challenging!

Which video editing software do you use?

is there a way to cite this in a paper/ who is the speaker's name and is there a transcript?

Well done. Would have liked to have seen a little more about film splicing and how NLE works, though. Maybe a "not quite as fast as possible" video.

Actually, there was a way of saving live-broadcast TV shows for later use. If you were alive and aware in the early/mid 1950's and had a TV set and watched it. You would sometimes hear, at the end of a program "This has been a Kinescope recording". This was used to save and rebroadcast live shows in a different timezone. Nowadays, if you want to buy some of the classic TV shows like SPACE PATROL or TOM CORBETT: SPACE CADET that were broadcast live, you can, These shows were Kinescoped and saved and then some smart enterpeneur, like "Cadet" Bruce David (Swapsale) put them on VHS cand sells them. These shows are making their way to digital media as well. We owe all of this to Kinescope This was done by training a film camera on a video monitor that was receiving a feed from the video cameras and recording. RU-vid has shows that were live-broadcast as early as 1948, such as HOWDY DOODY and a roller derby game. SPACE PATROL won several industry awards for choreography and in-camera special effects. It helped that they inheritied a huge stage and 3 video cameras. I am a rock keyboardist going back to the days of the Vox and Farfisa "empires" of the late 1960's, and in 2003, the Star of SP, Ed Kemmer, and I had a discussion about the facts of life of the electic/electronic stage

guys, aside from editing, how were the effects made before the age of Adobe after effects? like television indent and etc?

How were (or are) special effects added to the "film" ?

I laughed a little too hard at the Adobe Premiere Pro joke.

What's the best free video editing software?

All that progress on the path of "on demand" content, and now we back to live broadcasting.

You should do one on audio recording and editing next :)

Thankfully Linus gives the creator credit for naming his work GIF and pronouncing it properly. Whenever someone says it with a "hard" G, it sounds like they were going to say something longer but then hiccuped halfway through. Choosy moms choose GIF.

great HISTORY man.

Video FX as fast as possible

Do a tech quickie about vidoe domain vs workgroup

3:33 I have that same stock footage from Videoblocks in my archive

Glossed over the CMX era. Incredibly important time

great video :)

I was hoping you would mention the Commodore Amiga and the Video Toaster.

Television images WERE recorded be for the advent of video tape. The process was known as "kinescope" about basically it involved aiming a motion picture film camera synchronized to the frame rate of the television image. Of course the end product was "film" not "video" but it did allow later broadcast of the video content. (by aiming a video camera at a motion picture film screen)

Achievement unlocked: Make a video about the history of video editing without mentioning D. W. Griffith.

Imagine, How do you edit your awesome Broll footage in the old school days..

Really, really good video! :)

The amount of space required to harbor "cutting room floors" must have gotten quite out of hand. I love hearing how quickly mankind finds "innovative solutions" to problems that resonate in inconvenience.

history is on video now

4min 15 is Ron Bowman at BBC cutting tape, he was my manager at TVC

4:06 how much Times Can you maximum record and erase and record on a hi8 tape until the quality get bad?

Linus is the Bill Nye of technology.

The Avid/1 was not the first in non-linear editing. It was Lucasfilm and their EditDroid in the early 1980s

First video editing software???

.GIF? you've just opened up Pandora's Box, Linus.

Actually the first "non-linear" editing system was known as the Montage. It had system in which drove 14 VHS machines with identical footage on each VHS tape. The software would select the VHS machine that had the timecode nearest to the timecode wanted for the next edit. It was very cumbersome and costly. The Avid came after that. We had one of the first Avid machines in the country in Boston (Avid is located outside of Boston) as at post house I worked at during the late 80s/early 90s.

What font was the word 'video' on 3:10 kthx

Also, so is a motion picture and a movie the same thing? I suppose i could just google it, but wanna hear yr expert opinion of it

Final cut 10 is bae

This was probably the most heavily edited AFAP to date

Dude, you forget the Video Toaster! No really, that's what really launched the affordable video editing revolution.

As someone that uses Premier Pro I really felt it when they put the media offline picture in there.