Murch on editing Hemingway & Gellhorn Walter Murch is one of the granddaddy’s of film editing and is always well worth a read whenever he’s interviewed. Oliver Peter’s has a...
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Emmy nominated editors on editing
6th Annual PrimeCuts Event 2012 If you couldn’t make it to the (free) PrimeCuts event recently then check out this posting of the audio (and nice photos/tweet montage) on youtube. This first...
Invisible Art, Visible Artists
Award Winning Editors Share Their Secrets The IAVA is an annual pannel featuring award winning editors sharing their craft and insights from their Oscar nominated films. Here are some of the best...
Grading a music video with Resolve 9
Inside a grade – Renaissance Style Tristan Kneschke has a great post detailing his grading process on a Renaissance style rap video for ‘Killer Mike’ in DaVinci Resolve 9. Tristan...
Editing Tips from Alan Edward Bell
Editing Craft – Alan Edward Bell Alan Edward Bell editor of The Amazing Spiderman and 500 Days of Summer has started a blog where he shares some of his insights and tips into what it takes to...
Standing Desks for Film Editors
Creating your own standing desk Sitting at your desk for 40+ hours a week is slowly killing you. Standing is healthier and apparently makes you more productive. Plus Walter Murch does it so it must...
Tackling Challenging Edits
Inside two difficult edits As an editor I’m always on the look out for other editors talking about their craft, and often the most interesting stories are how they solved the problems that...
Editing with VFX in mind…
Editing in your own VFX If you’ve not watched Alan Edward Bell’s 30 minute webinar on the visual effects that he temped into his offline cuts of The Amazing Spiderman, then sit down and...
Kick-Ass Film Editor in Conversation
Eddie Hamilton on Editing Kick-Ass Eddie Hamilton is one of the editors who cut Kick-Ass and X-Men First Class and in this 30 minute conversation with Chris Jones he shares what it was like to spend...
Avid Media Composer 6 in Action
Cutting Bourne Legacy on Avid John Gilroy is the brother of director Tony Gilroy and editor of films like Michael Clayton, Warrior and Salt. In this interview by Oliver Peters, John discusses the...
TED: Filmmakers
Great Talks from Filmmakers on TED.com Ted.com is amazing and well worth a regular browse to inspire, entertain and enlighten yourself on many diverse and amazing topics. Its just brilliant from...
Film Trailer Sound Design
Film Trailer Sound Design Half of a film trailer is usually the race to the crescendo ending and possibly one or two extra beats of surprise endings after the title just for good measure, and the...
How To Edit Film Trailers
Cutting Film Trailers Recently director Joe Carnahan uploaded this sizzle reel for the (18/NC-17) version of DareDevil that he was trying to persuade the studios to let him make. More interesting to...
The Psychology of a Scene
Crafting your edit Moviola.com has weekly webinars (free at the time, paid for on demand later). They also do an interview with the presenter each week, which you can listen to for free on their...
Filmmaking from an editors perspective
AVID Rough Cut Interviews Avid Rough Cut has 40 episodes under its belt. They feature in depth interviews with filmmakers and editors on their craft, careers and insights on the world of filmmaking...