The Cutting Room Floor
dedicated to the art of film & all things post production
Category: NLE
Sony Clip Browser… export the proper way
Ok, after working in the business now for many, many years I have come to the conclusion that although a lot of editors / cameraman seem to want to ‘leap’ onto the newest technologies out there, very few actually know how to use it. Take for instance the EX camera, which these days seem to be one of the premiere choices for production shoots, along with it’s versatility on the set. it displays an impressive image. However, as good as the camera is, when the footage comes to the editing room, most editor’s have no idea how to actually bring the footage into the editing room properly. So here we go.
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Avid Makes Big Changes with Release of Media Composer 5
Final Cut lost one of it’s better selling features with the release of Avid’s Media Composer v5. Although Final Cut still retains it’s “one stop studio” (similar to that of the more consumer used Adobe Production Suite), Avid has now incorporated the drag and drop format for video and audio along with the ability to import footage without having to transcode. The latter being one of the biggest complaints of Final Cut users when working with Media Composer, since the ability to just grab (most) video formats and simply import them into your project in seconds has always been a primary function of workflow with FCP. Well, now Avid has finally added this convenient little feature to v5, and it will certainly take a little wind out of the sails of Final Cut’s ambitious climb to topple Avid in the post production market.
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Television Loses Great Editing As 24 Comes to an End
Well, here we go, yet another blog about one of the great television shows ending it’s series run. But I’m not here to discuss the finale or debate whether or not this show ended on a high note ( well, not really anyway ). What I really wanted to do was pay respect to the post production of one of the recent shows whose decided to pack it in after many years of entertaining us all, that show was 24. As an editor myself, one of the many draws that had me watching 24 for the last eight seasons was the way the stories were told from an editing standpoint. I’ve never seen a show that did such a unique and brilliant job of bringing in it’s story lines and make such creative use of split screens as 24 did. When the show first aired, I was completely enthralled with the originality of how it displayed real time and made use of multiple screen shots. Now after eight seasons, I can actually say that I feel that this show should go down in the annals of television as one of the most original and creative of it’s kind ( at least certainly from an editing standpoint ) . Read More
American Cinema Editors Nominations Unveiled
Well, the moment we’ve all been waiting for. Well, at least those of us who live the art of editing and post production. The American Cinema Editors’ have unveiled their nominations and here they are.
The ACE nominees for drama are: “Avatar,” “District 9,” “The Hurt Locker,” “Star Trek” and “Up in the Air.”
The ACE nominees for comedy or musical are: “(500) Days of Summer,” “The Hangover,” “It’s Complicated,” “Julie & Julia” and “A Serious Man.”
And the ACE nominees in the new category of animated feature are: “Coraline,” “Fantastic Mr. Fox” and “Up.”
So there we have it. There is also talk that the winner of the ACE for it’s respective categories also goes on to win the Oscar for ‘Best Picture’ regardless of whether it wins for ‘Best Editing’. So those who have taken it upon themselves a career of putting visuals together may have some bragging rights as to how important our little craft is. Mind you, it certainly helps to perhaps beone of the blessed few who have the opportunity to edit films such as Avatar but nevertheless, it is certainly a kudos to our profession to see the impact we can make at the highest of levels.
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