DTE (direct to edit)

{{Short description|Digital video direct-to-disk recording method}}

{{hatnote |This article is about the acronym DTE, for a digital recording & editing workflow method.}}

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DTE (direct to edit) is a digital video direct-to-disk recording method (and also refers to the associated equipment) used to streamline the post-production video editing workflow of raw video files into a non-linear editing system (NLE).{{cite journal |author=Bill Davis |title=Saving Time: Editing Tapeless |url=http://www.videomaker.com/article/10922/ |date=March 2006 |journal=Videomaker Magazine |publisher=Videomaker, Inc. |accessdate=8 February 2012}} Recent developments have added solid-state memory recording units with removable modules or flash-cards, to avoid potential hard-drive problems.{{cite web |url= http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/tapeless-video-recording-solutions/474770-hvr-dr60-vs-hvr-mrc1.html |title= Tapeless Video Recording Solutions: HVR-DR60 vs. HVR-MRC1 |date= |publisher=DVinfo.net |accessdate=17 January 2011}}