Spilling the Beans on Red One

Spilling the Beans on the RED ONE
Well, if you haven’t been living under a rock for the past few years you would know that a 10 pound 4K camera has been lurking around for under $18,000. This camera, RED has been stirring up frenzy. Low budget features are either blowing the budget on shooting with [...]

A Lesson in Sitcom

So, not too long ago I had the pleasure to cut a spec pilot called Dodgeville. This was my first real adventure into the sitcom world and I had my hands full. When you watch them on TV most people would think, “Oh, thats easy to edit.” This is wrong. It takes skill and loads [...]

Avid Media Composer 3.0 Red Workflow

I recently was on a job working with the Red on Avid Media Composer 3.0 (Short Horror Film) and I just found a quick tutorial of the stuff I had to go through. This is the best explanation on camera I have found so far. The screen is hard to see, but just listen [...]

Quickeys and KB Covers (one’s water proof, the other just useful)

Well, when it comes to assistant editing or editing at all in most cases every second counts. One way an editor speeds up his work is by using “Hot Keys”. There are billions of these key combinations and they change for every program you use in the process of cutting a project. I have recently [...]

Welcome to “The Working Assistant Editor”

Robert J. Williams “The Working Assistant Editor”
Hello, and welcome to my Blog Spot, “The Working Assistant Editor”. Not too long ago I was cutting wedding videos and cable television commercials to pay for food, gas and water (well, actually Belgian Wheat Beer) and that was okay, but got a little boring after awhile. Now, being [...]