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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.
- Final Cut
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way.
- Final Cut
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- Nov 07, 2020
I re-mastered 'The Conversation' a few years ago for DVD. 'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way. Truth be told, I couldn't.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the advanced editing technologies, it's not difficult to play double roles these days. It can be done easily.
- Filmmaking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.
- Push
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know everything that you can do with digital processing and digital editing inside and out, but I absolutely refuse to push the buttons and don't even want to know how to load and unload the files.
- Camera
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- Nov 07, 2020
For film at the beginning of the 20th century, they didn't even know what editing was yet. Actors didn't know how to perform in front of the camera. There wasn't sound.
- Camera
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- Nov 07, 2020
The less the camera is able to capture what you're seeing in a scene, the more editing it needs.
- Good Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people are feeling more artistic and creative with something like Instagram that makes editing easy. That's a good thing for sure.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate sitting around and waiting; that's why I always have an editing suite on set.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard for people to understand editing, I think. It's absolutely like sculpture. You get a big lump of clay, and you have to form it - this raw, unedited, very long footage.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think enough directors know enough about editing.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love watching action films, and especially the little moments of wit and humor in the choreography in a lot of them. The editing of an action sequence often has great moments of comic timing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hunger for knowing is what excites me. I get to geek out about editing, be on set, give notes to writers - I love it all.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away at them, and I am used to both editing and being edited. Which is to say that I am not oversensitive in such matters.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everyone knows that I'm always the one that's the busiest in Maiden. When we're not touring or recording, I'm still doing loads of Maiden stuff - video editing and god knows what else - so I get a lot less downtime than the others.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked on a set before, know something about cameras, and done some editing.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
While there are certainly food-focused content out there on the Web and on TV, most of this content need to weave through many layers of editing before it reaches the viewer.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was fooled a bit during 'Laguna Beach.' I was 17, 18 years old, and I thought they just wanted to shoot a documentary, and that it probably wouldn't end up anywhere, anyway. Little did we know about the power of editing. I had no idea that it was going to be the soap drama that it was, but I picked up on that pretty quickly.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photography. Editing is unique to film. You can see something from different points of view almost simultaneously, and it creates a new experience.
- Chronological
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the idea of the documentary as a portrait. There's not a chronological beginning, middle, and end structure. You build something in the editing room that's shaped by getting to know the person and digging deeper, unpeeling the layers of them as you get to know them.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did an audiobook for 'Rough Crossings,' which I thought was one of the best books I had published. But it was an absolute embarrassment to read it. All these horrible mucked-up bits of syntax, over-the-top adjectives. I found myself editing it while reading. Alert listeners will notice the difference.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe there's a platonic ideal for every book that is written, like there's the perfect version of the book somewhere in the ether, and my job is to find what that book is through my editing.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think about the reader when I'm writing, but I do when I'm editing, of course. For instance, I self-consciously didn't want to do anything to increase the divide between mothers and nonmothers - I think that divide is so horrible and destructive and unnecessary.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Particularly in the final stages I always find that I'm rushed. It's dangerous when you're rushed in the editing stage, most of my early films are flawed in the cutting.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really happy to have the chance to talk about the editing process. It's something that I think doesn't get the weight it deserves, especially with the rise of self-publishing.
- Room
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before we started shooting 'Homecoming,' we were in the writer's room for 'Mr. Robot.' I was also editing Season 3 of 'Mr. Robot' while I was prepping for the 'Homecoming' shoot. So yeah, it's a lot of hats.
- Ethically
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- Nov 07, 2020
I no longer do a film for the wrong reasons. I have to be convinced ethically and morally. Both the director and I have to be on the same page. There are just five songs in most films these days, and they have to be amazing. There has to be a twist in the screenplay. The editing has to be crisp. Your hard work should show, but effortlessly.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film, for me, is in two stages. One is when I write the script more or less on my own - that's the nice bit. And then comes for me the unpleasant bit when they all go off, 100 people - actors and camera people and film and sound - and I stay away. When they go into the editing room, I come in again, and that's the bit I like.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was editing for Kunal Kapoor when I got my first film 'Jaan Tere Naam' as lead actor.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I am shooting, I am inside the theatre, when I am in the editing room, I am inside the theatre. I always try to feel what they will feel. I see a film, not as a director, but as the audience. If I am entertained, they will be, too.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although Patterson Beams was not my first plug-in, I knew from the beginning that I would write it, because the single biggest time consuming factor for me was editing each beam manually.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Professional humorists and cartoonists have to go through a stage in which they have to kill their own internal editor just so they can get stuff out. So whether they believe it or not, they need me on the other end to do that editing for them.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
What helps change bad writing into mediocre writing is editing. Editing is in bad shape in print journalism, and is in virtually nonexistent shape in online journalism.
- Desk
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I am kind of distracted, I don't tend to sit at my desk 9 to 5. It can be two hours a day, or, when I'm in the final editing stages, it can be 14 hours a day.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
This whole blogging stuff has been bugging me for years. Talk about no filter on things. People feel free to do and say whatever they want with no vetting, with no editing, with nothing.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as you're finished shooting, you have to go into the edit room and choose all of the shots that you're going to commit to because the visual effects vendor has to get it because they'll spend months on it. So, you're editing out of sequence before you've gotten a film for the movie and the performances.
- Normal
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's editing, and scripts to read and edit, and casting, and all the elements of production that just sort of take up the normal downtime that you would have as an actor. So there's not a lot of that for me.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started making raps in 2014, recording stuff from my iPhone and putting them together in Sony Vegas, which is a video editing program.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love video editing.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up on Long Island, and from as early as I can remember, as far back as first grade, I had two real passions - one of them was putting on plays, and the other was journalism. I was directing plays and editing school papers from first grade on, all the way through college.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know everything about my profession. I want to learn about cinematography, about editing, about music recordings, about post-production. So when people in the know talk, I willingly listen.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to sit on the editing table to see where I may have gone wrong because after editing, only the good parts go on screen.
- Nov 07, 2020
You have to find the movie in the editing room, and it can't be four hours; it has to be two hours.
- Floors
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was sleeping on editing room floors for $300 a week.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teaching regularly has made me an even more adept reader, I think. The kind of teaching I do is more like editing than anything else. The kind of editing book editors used to do before lunch. The kind of editing I used to do as a radio documentary maker.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so easy to make albums with overdubbing and editing these days, but I really prefer playing live and just getting the music to sound right because the musicians, the songs and the performances are good.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing one's first novel, getting it sold, and shepherding it through the labyrinths of editing, production, marketing, journalism, and social media is an arduous and nerve-wracking process.
- Invention
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- Nov 07, 2020
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the idea that the editing room is the final time you write. You should still be creatively solving problems even at that point. It's not really until you're locked that you can call it quits.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love meeting 'the Odd Man Out' - like fans of 'Baywatch' who regret, as I do, that Tower 12 Productions didn't put nearly as much energy into writing and directing the show as they put into photographing and editing it.
- Together
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one place I've seen something really come together is in editing. Sometimes you can save pieces in a way that you're really shocked.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
Feature filmmaking is a different kind of complication as documentary comes in the editing room.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life needs editing.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Newspapers and magazines have been valuable to us precisely because they apply filters to information, otherwise known as editing, and often the Internet seems valuable for exactly the opposite reason: You can get your news without a filter.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was writing, directing, and editing my own films as a young kid with my parents' video camera.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is a lot of people doing professional video editing and things like that are using these displays that are mounted in place and they have stands already. When they upgrade displays, they take them out and put them in the same place and they don't need to buy new mounts and new stands for them.
- Jobs
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020