The editing room in the 1980s had large machines such as Steenback, Kem, Movieola, Acmade etc. The room smelt of acetic acid. The films were cut and pasted physically.

The editing, as we know, has since the changed. The change appeared in the 1990s. Avid came with the first editing software. It was run on Apple’s Macintosh II. Film editing became as simple as editing a word document.The late Renu Saluja was the pioneer to use such a system. The hardware capability was low — limited disk space. It was possible to edit only 20 minutes of a movie and the disk was full.The edited portion was saved. Then everything was deleted to accommodate the next tranche of 20 minutes. In 1993, 4GB hard disk appeared in one Jhuhu studio. Avid software called Film Composer was used. Since mid-90s till 2000, Avid with Mac was a preferred combination for editing. The software used for TV programmes and ad films was Media Composer. Similarly, Film Composer was used for feature films. Small films used other Mac-based software called Media 100 and Adobe Premiere. Later movie editing became much easier with a range of Apple machines — MacII, Quadra, PPC9500/132, G3, G4,G5 and MacPro.

All editingis these days completed on Mac-based Avid and  Final Cut Pro (FCP) systems.