New URL:

this blog site now has a new URL: www.theassistanteditor.net

More to come..

I have been extremely busy lately. Should have a bunch of new links and a new blog post up in the next week.

Next Blog Posts

So, I’m new to this blog thing. How am I doing? What do you like? What don’t you like?
Next topics on deck:
1. Offline/Online Edits, preparing Avid and FCP projects for Online edits.
2. Avid Media Composer 4.0 Review
3. Creation of custom presets in FCP.

Trailers…

For the past couple weeks I have been cutting a trailer for an anticipated feature that will make it’s presents known around 2011 (I have contractually agreed not to say it’s title, sorry guys). It’s been a fantastic job, lots of fun. There is certainly an art form to editing a trailer. This particular trailer [...]

Documentary, stories and mistakes

As a beginning assistant editor in the television and film industry a lot of my projects happen to be documentary style projects. If you asked every film editor in Hollywood where they started out about 65 percent of them would probably say documentary, another 20 percent would say children’s shows. I can see why some [...]

Podcasts….rock!

Some great podcasts I enjoy listening to:
1. The Cutting Room
2. The Edit Bay
3. The Post Show
4. The Editor’s Podcast
5. The Rough Cut with AVID
6. Avid DS Tutorials
7. The Ricky Gervais Podcast (you need some comedy in life)

A 14sec. RED Short, yeah I was a little bored this morning

Cut in Final Cut Pro with a very tricked out first edition MacBook Pro. I actually offlined it using the low rez proxies and then onlined it back up to full 4k resolution (yes with a five year old MacBook Pro). I’ll post a blog about how to give your old, slow MacBook Pro the [...]

Finally, RED Workflows That a Human Can Understand.

Avid Media Composer 3.5 RED Workflow

So, it’s been about a year now since my last post. Yeah, that’s right finally getting some assistant editor work here in Chicago. I noticed my last post on the RED workflow for both Avid and FCP is now a bit outdated. A lot happened in just one-year workflow wise, [...]

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 [...]