How were movies and songs edited/mixed before computers?
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Movies were shot on film. Film is a long ribbon of still images (typically 24 images per second of movie time.) To edit film, you can literally cut the reels and splice them together. That’s why people talk about deleted scenes ending up “on the cutting room floor.”
Songs have had a few different processes depending on what time period you’re talking about. In the 1940’s they’d just record the entire band at the same time, and would adjust levels by changing how far away people were from microphones. When multi-track recording was invented, studios developed the ability to record different instruments on different tracks, and they could then change the volume of each track to level the final song before they created a master. The Beatles would record dozens and dozens of tracks which would then get combined into four tracks for levelling, and finally into a single track for mastering.
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