“Before Sunrise was the second film I edited for Rick, and it was also the first film I ever cut on an Avid… I was confronted with the challenge of starting right in on the cut with Rick and learning to use the Avid at the same time. It was an interesting few weeks at first!” – Sandra Adair, A.C.E. […]
It was bound to happen, eventually, that Steven Spielberg would finally embrace the Avid. […]
Pete Beaudreau spoke to CineMontage about ‘Margin Call’ and his career path. […]
Sharp dialogue. Splintered chronology. Bursts of extreme violence. Must be Quentin Tarantino. Sally Menke, A.C.E. has been there every step of the way… providing the brilliantly bold cutting for all of the director’s films. […]
A handful of television editors at different stages in their careers recently sat down with CineMontage to discuss the past, present and future of editing for TV. […]
Jacobson worked as a freelance director/cameraman shooting for ten years, until he discovered the Avid in 1994. That’s when he began editing. When Jacobson moved to New York, and reconnected with producer Mark Haefeli, his career in big-event, multi-camera editing really took form. […]
“Sometimes, hearing another editor comment on your work in an open forum and having him tell you he sees a problem and how he thinks it should be fixed, can be a little uncomfortable, but it was all for the greater good. The bottom line is that the entire miniseries improved greatly after that.” […]
John Gilroy, A.C.E., had to make sure the audience stayed inside the characters, while creating a subtle build-up of tension throughout. […]
“I let the actors’ eye movements guide my cuts. When an actor looks to someone else, I wait until they’ve looked, then cut to where they’re looking. It’s a simple thing, but when it’s not done right, it feels very weird.” – Niven Howie […]
As the on-set, or reference editor, Viertel feels like he’s doing a service for the picture editor, to make sure he has all the resources mapped out the way he would want them. […]
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