The new ingredient in editor Stuart Bass's editorial stew is Avid's ScriptSync feature, introduced this spring at NAB, which automatically matches camera takes to lines of dialogue in the show's script. ... »
When Technicolor Creative Services announced it would open a Digital Intermediate facility on the Sony lot, the idea was that the proximity of DI to sound mixing and other studio services would create massive efficiencies. That was just proven true, with the 4K DI of Spider-Man 3... »
After 15 years in the business of cutting episodic TV, editor Farrel Levy has figured out a thing or two about getting inside someone's head. That's her job — making sure an audience understands not just the narrative, but the psychology behind the story. ... »
When producer Jonathan Murray started looking to bring back MTV’s venerable reality series Road Rules, which went off the air several years ago, he knew the show would need a new hook.... »
Editor Jay Nelson at L.A.'s Cut and Run is coming off a streak of funny spots for high-profile clients like Activision, eHarmony and, working with director Jason Reitman, Wal-Mart.... »
A spin-off of reality show Laguna Beach, The Hills follows Lauren Conrad, a character from a past season, to Los Angeles. Cinematographer Hisham “Sham” Abed used the same camera and lenses as he did with Laguna Beach: the Panasonic 480-line resolution SDX-900 in 24p mode and native 16:9 aspect ratio and a range of Canon HD lenses.... »
Scott Hill, a Lightworks editor, is settling in for post-production after wrapping principal photography on Evan Almighty. He told us he values speed in the cutting room: "I never want to tax a director’s patience waiting for me to put stuff together. I want to be as fast as I can, and this, I think, helps me to be faster."... »
We used different formats — some 16mm, some 35mm and another section with anamorphic. All of it is in the 1.85 aspect ratio, even though we shot with anamorphic lenses. We were going for different textures, different film grain to represent one of the stories ...... »
