example of live editing. Live editing is a fairly specialist topic and won’t concern most people.
Video Editing Terminology This page provides a few simple video terms to get you started. For more editing terminology, see our glossary or search this site. Capture Device: A hardware or firmware device used to convert analogue video into digital video. Compressors & Codecs: Software or firmware used to compress and decompress digital video. Compression makes the file size smaller. Editing: The process of rearranging, adding and/or removing sections of video clips. Also, creating transitions between clips. Editing is part of post-production. Encoding: The process of converting digital video into a particular format, for example, saving a video project in MGEG-2 format for DVD distribution.