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...
A Message From the Board 2nd Qtr, 2020 We are living through unprecedented times, which are having a devastating impact on our industry. Though most production remains shut down as this issue goes to press, some post-production continues...
For Editors Interested in Final Cut Pro X Mike Matzdorff (Local 700) and Michael Yanovich, ACE have put together two and a half hours of conversation, demonstration and tutorials showing how Final Cut Pro X works and how elements of it...
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...
