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...
Category - Editing
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...
RED Workflow – FCP7 to Resolve to FCPX
Indie feature film RED workflow FCP.co has a great write up of one indie feature’s RED workflow that involved roundtrips from Final Cut Pro 7 through Resolve and back to FCP X. Nick Gregorio...
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...
5 books for creatives everyone should read…
There are a small selection of books that I keep recommending to people (creatives and ‘non-creatives’ alike – in my mind everyone is creative in some way) that I think are worth...
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...
How to be a great sound editor
Sound editing 30 minute bootcamp Vickie Sampson presented this 30 minute walk through at LAFCPUG about what your sound editor needs from all aspects of production, but also from you as the film...
Anatomy of an Action Scene
Shot by Shot – Cutting an Action Scene In this great three part video essay Jim Emerson dissects the structure of several action scenes from The Dark Knight, Salt and The French...
Anatomy of a grade – node by node breakdown
Node by node breakdown of a grade Colorist Chris Hall from Basher Films has created nine episodes of ‘Anatomy of a grade’ which provides a creative look at some of his grading work. In...
A.C.E. Editors on their craft…
American Cinema Editors share their wisdom Cinema Editor Magazine, the official magazine of ACE, has a great selection of articles and interviews from its editors – for which you’ll have...
Edit Fest LA (The view from the Internet)
Edit Fest LA – An outsiders view Living in London there was very little way for me to get to LA for Edit Fest but thanks to the mighty internet, and some gracious tweeters here is a round up of...
What editors want to learn…
Results from 3 Question Survey I posted a quick 3 question survey the other week, mostly to find out what I should be blogging about but also to see what other editors in the industry were...