Editing Linear video editing (section)

{{Short description|Type of video editing post-production process}}
'''Linear video editing''' is a [[video editing]] [[post-production]] process of selecting, arranging, and modifying images and sound in a predetermined, ordered sequence.<ref>PC Magazine; Encyclopedia,[https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/46135/linear-video-editing "Definition of:linear video editing"] accessed July 8, 2014</ref> Regardless of whether it was captured by a [[video camera]],<ref>{{Cite book|title=Shankar|last=Bheel|first=Shankarlal}}</ref> [[tapeless camcorder]], or recorded in a [[television studio]] on a [[video tape recorder]] (VTR) the content must be [[sequential access|accessed sequentially]].<ref>University of Florida, [http://aec.ifas.ufl.edu/aec3070/2EDITING.pdf "Video editing Linear editing system Editing technique"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714222237/http://aec.ifas.ufl.edu/aec3070/2EDITING.pdf |date=2014-07-14 }} accessed July 8, 2014</ref>

For the most part, [[video editing software]] has replaced linear editing. In the past, film editing was done in a linear fashion, where film reels were literally cut into long strips divided by takes and scenes and then glued or taped back together to create a logical sequence of film. Linear video editing is more time-consuming, and highly specialized, and tedious work. Still, it is relevant today because of these reasons:
* The method is simple and inexpensive.
* Mandatory for some jobs: for example, if only two sections of video clips are to be joined together in sequence, it is often the quickest and easiest way.
* If video editors learn linear editing skills, it increases their knowledge as well as their versatility. According to many professional editors who learn linear editing skills first, they tend to become proficient all-round editors.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mediacollege.com/video/editing/linear/linear-vs-nonlinear.html|title=Linear vs Non Linear Editing|website=www.mediacollege.com|access-date=2018-04-27}}</ref>

Until the advent of computer-based [[random access]] [[non-linear editing system]]s (NLE) in the early 1990s, linear video editing was simply called [[video editing]].