MetaFilter posts tagged with editing and film

Tips 'n' cuts

Neilopolis — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:46:00 -0800

Digitalfilms, a blog by video/film editor Oliver Peters, serves primarily as a repository for his product reviews pertaining to nonlinear editing systems - including, but not limited to, Avid Media Composer and Apple Final Cut Pro... He also posts useful tutorials and news from the postproduction industry. A sampling of his more popular posts: Ten Tips For A Better Final Cut Pro Experience 11 More Final Cut Pro Tips 12 Tips For Better Film Editing Final Cut vs. Avid Redux Dealing with a post facility Bonus: Reliving The Zoetrope Tradition - Walter Murch and Tetro Saving the best for last: The Avid Ecosystem - a list of useful links and resources pertaining to Avid technology The Final Cut Ecosystem - another (lengthier) compilation of useful links, only this time for Final Cut Pro

Break it down, Martin! Yo, I'm tr-tr-tr-tr-tr-tr-tr-try-try-try-try-tryin' to.

Ambrosia Voyeur — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:44:34 -0800

Cinemnesis, filmmaker Martin Arnold's 41 minute compilation of the films of his "compulsive repetition" trilogy, is available to you online. The quality is lacking, small details are missed, but I thought you'd enjoy these nonetheless. Time codes for the three pieces and more inside. "The cinema of Hollywood is a cinema of exclusion, reduction and denial, a cinema of repression. There is always something behind that which is being represented, which was not represented. And it is exactly that that is most interesting to consider." pièce touchée, 1989 passage á l'acte, 1993. Begins at about 15:15 Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy, 1998. Begins at about 26:40. Alone is, apparently, the one with the broadest appeal. Try it first if you don't like the beginning of pièce touchée. His new(er) installation work, Deanimated, is the screening of the The Invisible Ghost, a Bela Lugosi picture, with a flawless removal of selected characters throughout, lending it a perplexing and uproarious sense of haunted emptiness. He does not own a Tivo. I asked.

Profile of a Profile

defenestration — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:14:08 -0800

Storyboard is an almost-real-time, behind-the-scenes look at the assigning, writing, editing, and designing of a Wired feature. The Birth of Storyboard is a (minimally edited) video of the conversation that spawned the project. The feature—that will be published in November—is about screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. In the past he has woven the process of creating his work into the work itself, so Wired writer Jason Tanz thought it would make sense to do the same. Looking to promote his directorial debut, Kaufman has agreed to take part in the project.

What I Really Want Is To Direct

optovox — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:40:24 -0800

The films of Joel and Ethan Coen. The films of Tim Burton. The films of Stanley Kubrick.

Directors Behaving Badly

hadjiboy — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:40:37 -0800

The Cheating of Salim Baba [video | projector]

Golden Ratios

digaman — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 08:21:30 -0800

Did the roof of the Pantheon influence Copernicus? Are the planets of the solar system aligned in accordance with a nearly-forgotten hypothesis known (unfairly) as Bode's Law? A fascinating wide-ranging discussion on BLDGBLOG with Walter Murch, the visionary editor and sound designer for such films as The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, The English Patient, THX1138, and many others. [Murch's film work has previously been discussed here and here.]

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vronsky — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:36:21 -0800

The Cutting Edge - The Magic of Movie Editing BBC documentary on the technique and art of editing film. With commentary from Scorscese, Spielberg, and many more. Google vid.

Much Murch

Iridic — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:38:44 -0800

The visual interplay of helicopters and fan blades in the opening scene of Apocalypse Now. The idiot-future soundscapes in THX-1138. The concept for the baptism montage in The Godfather. The actual cut of the "Director's Cut" of Touch of Evil. The man responsible for all of these is Walter Murch, one of the greatest film and sound editors of all time. More Inside.

The UK has the best advertisements.

bigtimes — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 13:59:35 -0800

Tim Thornton-Allan is a film editor who's collaborated with the best advertising and short film directors around the world.

Some other favorites: Cherry, Arcade, and Hong Kong