At any ACE meeting 20 years ago, near the front of the meeting hall was a table of well-dressed white-haired editors engaged in spirited schmooze. We younger folks referred to them endearingly as the ‘alter kockers.’ Alter kockers is a Yiddish phrase...
Tech Corner – Last Equipment Survey CE 2012 Qtr 2 The battle is over. There are clear winners. The answers to the questions haven’t changed. Around 80% of the ACE respondents edit on Avid, on a Mac, cutting with HD media, on network...
12 Steps to Tech Sanity Harry B. Miller III, ACE My name is Harry M – and I have an addiction. I am a software-update-aholic. Let me explain. In the early days of personal computers Wordstar was the dominant word processing program starting from...
Tech Corner – Death of a Software Death of a Software (with apologies to Arthur Miller) Harry B. Miller III, ACE One thing stupider than releasing a piece of professional editing software that lacks essential professional...
CE 2020 1st Qtr Start your day with a heart attack by opening your master edit sequence and see the following…. Yes, all that red color means that everything in this timeline is offline. EVERYTHING. It then occurs to you that in the process of...
Past, Present and Future of Editing in Isolation REFLECTIONS ON THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF EDITING IN ISOLATION Teaching film editing at University of North Carolina School of the Arts this semester, I felt almost guilty after spring...
Avid had a party. A coming-out party for their new, happier interface. Their Burbank office was jammed with people on May 15 to enjoy food and drink, and to see demonstrations of the latest Avid Media Composer. But wait, I want to tell you something, but that isn’t...
Alex Hall tells why it was like editing a ‘giant, eight-hour feature’ By George Jaarrett Alex Hall – who won an ACE Eddie Award for cutting the pilot episode of Tremé alongside Kate Sanford, ACE –was working on his second feature with director Oren Moverman when he...
