ABSTRACT
After planning a project in preproduction and acquiring all the aural and visual elements during the shooting or production phase, it is time to edit everything together in postproduction. In this computer-based, nonlinear editing (NLE) age, many editors begin their work during the production phase, selecting and sequencing shots at the end of each day’s shoot. Digital editing makes this possible because editors do not have to wait until all the film footage or analog videotape is complete. Instead, they can complete a digital sequence, save it on a computer, work another sequence, and then another, ultimately retrieving all the saved sequences and making some tweaks for the final edit.
