Editing Linear video editing (section)

== History ==
[[Live television]] is still essentially produced in the same manner as it was in the 1950s, although it has been transformed by modern technical advances. Before videotape, the only way to air the same shows again was by filming shows using a [[kinescope]], essentially a [[video monitor]] paired with a movie camera. However, kinescopes (the films of television shows) suffered from various sorts of picture degradation, from [[image distortion]] and apparent [[scan line]]s to artifacts in contrast and loss of detail. Kinescopes had to be processed and printed in a film laboratory, making them unreliable for broadcasts delayed for different time zones.

The primary motivation for the development of video tape was as a short- or long-term archival medium. Only after a series of technical advances spanning decades did video tape editing finally become a viable production tool, up to par with film editing.