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Motion Picture and Television Editing - Featured Stories
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Editing ABC Comedy Hank
by Robin Rowe
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Editors Guild Magazine) – On Hank, the
writers, production staff, producers, and editing staff are under
one roof at Building 19 on the Warner Brothers lot. “A lot
of shows have multiple systems and multiple editors,” says
Hank editor Ron Volk, A.C.E. “We have one system that we
share. My assistant comes in at seven when I leave and works
all night. When I come back at seven in the morning, we high
five each other and off he goes. During the day I’m editing.
Since I don’t have an assistant during the day, I do the
dubs as well.” Volk uses an Avid Adrenaline 2.8.3, set up
in a traditional configuration for offline editing. There’s
no shared space or Unity, only a 1-TB G-Technology G-Speed RAID
that's expected to hold all 13 shows. More... |
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Editing ABC Comedy Cougar Town
by Robin Rowe
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Editors Guild Magazine) 9/25/2009 – In
2003, Scrubs became a beta test site for Apple, working with
Final Cut Pro version 4. Cougar Town uses Final Cut Pro version
7, editing in high definition at 720p. “We’re in a
bungalow with the Scrubs editors, so there are four editing teams,”
says Cougar Town editor Roger Bondelli A.C.E. “Next door
are the post-production offices. I’m really enjoying the
camaraderie. I'm still getting used to having two shows in the
room at once. You’re doing changes on one story line while
cutting dailies on another.” More... |
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Editing NBC Comedy Community
by Robin Rowe
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Editors Guild Magazine) 9/23/2009 – It's
one of the first TV shows to incorporate the Sony XDCAM workflow
on Avid. The Sony XDCAM format uses a 23GB Blu-ray disk in a
cassette. It stores movie files similar to how flash-based consumer
cameras work. “We’re making it in the streamlined production
flow that you’d typically see on a student movie, but making
it for broadcast,” says editor Peter B. Ellis. “We
don’t have to go through the lab anymore to get dailies.
We cut in 1080. There’s no online assembly. It’s unnecessary.”
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Editing the CW Thriller The Vampire Diaries
by Robin Rowe
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Editors Guild Magazine) 9/15/2009 – The
Vampire Diaries uses five Avid Adrenalines running the latest
version, 3.5, on a Unity so the assistant editors have their
own machines. “Studio executives like to see what the show
will ultimately look like, as opposed to the washy flat dailies
that will give the colorist the most leeway in creating a look
after the fact,” says The Vampire Diaries editor
Joshua Butler. “We’re getting these dailies already
as Avid files. We copy the MXF files off and we’re good
to go. The word ‘digitize’ has become an antiquated
term because we’re getting digital media created for us
by the telecine house. More... |
Selected Editing Stories from the Web 9/26/2009
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