Video editing by recording is now mostly obsolete, except for technical assembly of material, with non-linear editing systems being the normal way of performing creative editing.
Video editing reached its full potential in the 1970s when computer-controlled edit suite controllers were developed, which could orchestrate an edit based on an edit decision list[?] (EDL), using timecode to synchronize the various tape machines and outboard devices.
The widespread availability of videotape editing led to the music video boom of the 1980s.
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