What is digital video editing?

Digital video is motion picture content produced with digital tools.

Instead of using film, most of today’s cameras, phones and whatever else record images digitally to a variety of digital media, including in-camera hard drives and SD cards. This has led to filmmaking becoming significantly more open - specialist and special equipment has been replaced with a computer with a solid video card and editing software like Adobe Premiere Rush. 

The act of editing is still the same - we still take an array of shots and takes and piece them together into a cohesive final product. It’s just freer, cheaper, more compact and a less destructive process; and that’s what makes it more open. Now anyone with a phone and a laptop can make a film of comparable quality and skill as a professional production company.

For this unit, we're going to help you understand how the camera works and how it connects with Adobe Premiere Rush, your editing software. We’ll also help you get comfortable with the process of producing digital videos.