Zach Staenberg on The Matrix Trilogy

January 2, 2010, 07:14 AM

http://www.editorsguild.com/v2/magazine/Newsletter...

Edit Bay Eps. 19 -The Assistant Editor

January 1, 2010, 07:13 AM

http://lfhd.net/2009/12/31/the-edit-bay-ep-19-the-...

The ninteenth episode of THE EDIT BAY is now available for download. This one is about assistant editors...the unsung technical heroes. Oh, and I eat a cookie.

FCS Centric Facility

January 1, 2010, 07:12 AM

http://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/the-f...

Back in the day, the last large mainstream facility that I helped design, install and manage was geared towards episodic TV series post. We had several dedicated linear bays, DaVinci film transfer, graphics/VFX and audio mixing suites.

Year End Wrap Up

December 31, 2009, 06:10 AM

http://splicehere.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/year-en...

Looking back, maybe we could say 2009 was the year the playing field got a little more level. It was the year competition seemed to return, the year some of the hoopla subsided and people settled in around the idea that no single application is perfect and that each has its strengths and weaknesses.

Gladiator | Editor Pietro Scalia | BAFTA

December 31, 2009, 06:09 AM

https://www.aotg.com/gladiator-editor-pietro-scalia-bafta/

Film editor Pietro Scalia talks to journalist Mark Salisbury about working on Ridley Scott's BAFTA-winning epic, Gladiator. Discover how he dealt with the death of Oliver Reed three weeks before finishing shooting.

VLC Editing Software

December 30, 2009, 06:08 AM

http://www.vlmc.org/

VLC is a cross-platform media player that can handle all sorts of audio and video files. It's open source, free, and available for Mac, Linux, and Windows, which makes it all sorts of awesome. There's even a portable version that you can run from a USB flash drive. And that's why it's pretty exciting that the some of the folks who brought us VLC are now working on a cross-platform video editor called VideoLAN Movie Creator, or VLMC.

Edit This! Chris Nelson on Cutting Lost and Mad Me

December 30, 2009, 06:07 AM

http://www.postmagazine.com/Publications/Post-Maga...

Christopher Nelson, ACE, has what many would consider a dream job. During the summer he's editing AMC's Emmy Award-winning Mad Men, and in the winter he turns his attention to the phenomenon known at ABC's Lost — he is currently cutting the last season of the show.

FCP Supermeet to offer Free Educational Workshops

December 29, 2009, 06:06 AM

http://www.macvideo.tv/editing/news/index.cfm?RSS&...

Final Cut Studio, Adobe and Avid editors and digital filmmakers from around the world will gather together for the Ninth Annual San Francisco SuperMeet, to be held on Friday, February 5, 2010 at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, CA.

Menke Talks Tarantino, Cannes and Kill Bill 3

December 29, 2009, 06:05 AM

http://www.movieline.com/2009/11/sally-menke.php

There’s one woman in the world who understands Quentin Tarantino better than anybody, and that’s Sally Menke. Since her work on Reservoir Dogs, Menke has cut every single one of Tarantino’s films, and for the last decade, she’s eschewed almost all other jobs to devote herself solely to the genre-blending auteur. This Sunday, Menke will be receiving the Lifetime Achievement honor at the Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards, and as Inglourious Basterds begins its transformation from unexpecte...

Editing in India with Marthand K. Venkatesh

December 28, 2009, 06:05 AM

http://www.idlebrain.com/celeb/interview/marthandk...

There is a saying that a film is made on two tables. One is story table and the other is editing table. It is left to the editor to change the fortune of the film with fine editing. Marthand K Venkatesh is an ace film editor in Telugu film industry today. 70% of the film he edited went on to become the blockbusters. Idlebrain.com has met up with him and a long personal as well as technical interview on film editing. Here are the excerpts...