By using this architecture, Media100 can eliminate conversions that degrade signal code and colorspace.1 Despite these differences, AVID, Media100, and Truevision are considered broadcast quality. As we know, clients tend to change their minds quite a bit in the editing room. With non-linear editing, you can make the changes as fast as the client can think of them and never have to go back and start from scratch. Also, you can save multiple versions of a project so a client can see the difference between ideas. The ability to bring digital information into a number of different programs is called integration.
Integration is another key element in non-linear editing.
Integration will allow photographs and video clips to be creatively manipulated by programs such as Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe After Effects, AVID Elastic Reality and Strata Media Paint. With this ability, editors have to be concerned with rendering times. For instance, no rendering time is involved when you are editing one sequence after another using simple cuts, dissolves or wipes. However, if you have created complex 2D or 3D effects, then you will need some time to render that particular effect. Rendering times vary in relation to the complexity and length of the sequence, as well as, the computer processing speed.