Film editing was called cutting because you literally cut and spliced sections of film and sound. Physicality informed the process. Linear tape editing meant copying sections of a source tape to an edited tape. Physical movement of the tape marked your progress. Non- linear editing is a black box, or in our case a white and gray box. Non-linear editing presents problems of disconnection. Much of the quick success of Apple’s Final Cut Pro can be attributed not to it’s superiority in film editing, but simply to Apple’s ability to draw attention both from the professional and consumer realms. As a way of attacking Adobe’s control of Macintosh software, Apple went straight after its editing suite, Premiere.