Video editing by recording is now mostly obsolete, except for technical assembly of material, with non-linear editing systems being the normal way of performing creative editing.
Video editing reached its full potential in the 1970s when computer-controlled edit suite controllers were developed, which could orchestrate an edit based on an edit decision list (EDL), using timecode to synchronize the various tape machines and outboard devices.
The widespread availability of videotape editing led to the music video boom of the 1980s.