Dissolves, Wipes and Fades Our advanced edit stations include a mixing board where we can dissolve, wipe or fade between scenes and pictures to show a time lapse. Many edit stations let you freeze and strobe the video. The 8mm and Hi8 advanced station supports slow motion. Our Media 100 and Final Cut Pro computer stations have all these features for all formats. It's a computer.
Tapes are linear.
You start at the beginning and you can NOT go back and push all the scenes down a little. Computers are non-linear. Your video is copied to a disk as lots of short clips. You CAN then arrange and trim these clips in any order you want, and you can push them down or pull them back on the time-line if you change your mind. The video is digital.