The Editing Process

When editing a roll of film you have to transfer the footage through Microform. Normally microfilming uses high resolution black and white film which reproduces a film through the light onto the film roll. This then makes the footage have a positive colour film giving good reproduction and high resolution can also be used. Roll film is provided 16, 35 and 105 mm wide in lengths of 30 metres (100 ft) and longer. Roll film is developed, fixed and washed by continuous processors then handed back to the editors to then transfer onto their computers and then to edit. Whereas with digital the film is captured and burned onto some form of memory device. Movies are supplied to the theatre as a digital file called a digital cinema package. They then arrive as a conventional computer hard-drive or via satellite or fibre-optic broadband. Causing a lot less hassle and its easier to make. Also the process is quicker and easier. Requiring less special assistance. After this process they then are edited onto a computer.