From the minute you bring your footage into a computer, you’ve entered the realm of digital non-linear editing. Unlike traditional editing, digital non-linear editing, or NLE, is done exclusively in a computer-based system where you can pick and choose pieces of footage at random and link them together anyway you want. This "randomness" is the key defining element of NLE and it gives editors vast control over the editing process.

" Film can be arranged in any order, regardless of the sequence, in any number of combinations "

These edits are safely rendered in the computer and can be viewed as many times as you want, and in as many possible configuration as you want, without corrupting or affecting the original footage in any way. When the final edits are output, whether to tape, CD-ROM or for broadcast or over the internet, you create a clean copy independent of the original source material.