Video editing pioneers didn't have the simple pleasures we take for granted today. As you may already know, they didn't have things like time code, computer-based editors or Video Toasters. But did you know they also didn't have electronic editing, audio dubbing or even slow and fast motion picture search?
The first editors worked with the equivalent of a chisel on stone to put their ideas together on tape. They could only dream about many of the features now taken for granted by videomakers.
Looking back over the last 40 years of videotape editing, one familiar statement rings true--you've come a long …