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Passages – Gregg Rudloff
Gregg Rudloff was a true friend and colleague of both Local 700 and me personally. He cut a wide path through post-production, working with many people. Everywhere he went, he made friends. […]
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Passages – Richard Marks, ACE
Revered film editor Richard Marks, ACE, whose best known works include Serpico (1973), Apocalypse Now (1979) and You’ve Got Mail (1998), died on December 31. He was 75. […]
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Passages – David Arnold
David Arnold passed away peacefully in his sleep after a six-year battle with a traumatic brain injury from a motorcycle accident. He was 59 and is survived by his loving wife Kathy, children Edward and Kaitlyn, mother Roberta, sister and brother-in-law Georgette and Daniel Lavery, sister Laura, and nieces and nephews. […]
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Motion Capture for the Masses – iPi Soft Does Away with the MoCap Suit
Motion capture, or MoCap, is the technique of capturing a human actor’s physical performance and applying the captured data to a 3D computer-generated character so that it moves in the same convincing, life-like manner. […]
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A Teachable Moment – Lessons Learned from the UTLA Strike
by Rob Callahan Last June, my column in these pages invoked the cinematic trope of the cliffhanger to describe a […]
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Let’s Continue the Solidarity
Last year was a challenging one for our Guild, but also one of great promise. In our struggle to get a fair deal for our members, we discovered how strongly you were behind the position of our Board of Directors (pictured here) to fight for better protection of our pension and welfare plan, as well as better and safer turnaround times and other issues. […]
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Living Legacies
Here we are again at the height of Awards Season, which culminates Sunday, February 24 with the 91st Academy Awards, the legacy awards show. Most Guild members will be watching the telecast at home or at Oscar parties, aside from those lucky few who received nominations in the Achievement in Film Editing, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing categories and will be watching the proceedings nervously from their seats at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. […]
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A Year of Engagement and Activism
Two thousand eighteen has been a year of great awakening for our Guild — an awakening as to who and what we really are as a labor union. We stood with our principles, refusing to abandon them in order to be socially accepted. […]
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Passages – Bruce Barris
Bruce Barris, my profes-sional colleague and good friend for the last 16 years, died quite unexpectedly this past August. He was one of the most talented people I have ever known. […]
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Adobe Puts the Art in Artificial Intelligence
Recently, Adobe unveiled important updates and enhancements to its suite of video applications in the Creative Cloud. Let’s take a look at some of the new features aimed at filmmakers and video professionals. […]
