Welcome to the latest issue of CinemaEditor. ACE is pleased to release the 2021 ACE Eddie Awards schedule, reflecting changes to the overall awards season calendar. As a result, you’ll see that this issue is themed “Awards 1.” The first quarter issue...
How are editors working during the novel coronavirus pandemic? Amid the uncertainty, ACE conducted a member survey over three weeks in late June and early July, to get a sense of where our community stands in getting back to work. Of those who...
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...
In Memoriam Veteran post-production executive and editor Martin “Marty” Cohen passed on May 17 of natural causes after a battle with heart disease. He was 67. A beloved and respected member of the post-production community, Marty served as...
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...
Tech Corner – Another Show… Another Show…Another New …Everything If you are a picture editor easily frustrated by change, you’re in the wrong business. Over the past six months I’ve worked on a 3D movie shot on 35mm 8...
