
A typical digital non-linear editing system consists of Non-linear editor software running on a personal computer, workstation or tablet device With the introduction of consumer camcorders in 1983, computer based non-linear editing systems became more accessible to consumers. These were generally available only on workstations and not on personal computers.

The first video editing software were linear video editors. It has replaced traditional flatbed celluloid film editing tools and analog video tape-to-tape online editing machines.

Video editing software is an application program which handles the post-production video editing of digital video sequences on a computer non-linear editing system (NLE).
