Welcome to ACE’s annual television issue, in which we’ll look at some of the dramas, comedies and animated series entertaining audiences at home. In this issue, we also provide a snapshot of how our members are working while following safety...
Cuts We Love 2nd Qtr 2020 In this sequel to his 1984 sci-fi smash The Terminator, director James Cameron (with co-writer William Wisher) reprised the main characters but gave the story an audacious twist. T2 established the iconography of...
SNL At Home In its 45-year history, Saturday Night Live (SNL) has hosted, made and chronicled a deafening amount of America’s cultural fabric. Between skits and musical guests, Weekend Update and Digital Shorts, SNL has served as both a...
New Normal With social distancing and shelter-in-place orders amid COVID-19, editors have, by necessity, taken work home. In fact, Andrew Seklir, ACE, says his editorial rental company, A Frame Post, alone installed roughly 50 home systems...
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...
HPA Awards 2020 15th Anniversary of HPA Awards to be Celebrated in Online Gala in November HPA Engineering Excellence Award Opens Call for Entries Today June 22, 2020 (Burbank, CA) –The Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) has announced...
Aspects of Editing – How to Rewrite Your Financial Story “Unprecedented.” “In these uncertain times.” Can we all collectively agree we should stop using these terms as the tag lines for our present circumstances? I’m going to share...
