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Each six-week intensive class at MEWShop welcomes its own individual Artist in Residence -- an accomplished editor who sits in with the class for two sessions to screen student footage, offer constructive feedback, and share stories and wisdom from their own, often long and storied careers. For the six week class ending today, July 29, that editor was Bill Pankow, ACE. Pankow’s career spans decades and genres, beginning with assistant editor positions on Kramer vs. Kramer, Scarface, and Wise Guys , all the way up to recent action comedies like American Ultra and Let’s Be Cops . His other credits include The Untouchables, Carlito’s Way, and The Money Train . This time around, the students screened two of his more recent films, American Ultra and Mesrine Part 2: Public Enemy #1 . Here are five things we learned during his time at MEWShop: Cutting film in another language, as he did on Mesrine, isn’t easy. French wasn’t his first language - “I’m barely conversational,” he ...

Manhattan Edit Workshop Instructor Kiri Roberts shows how to add a shortcut in your Media Browser in Adobe Premiere Pro (CC15). Manhattan Edit Workshop is a New York Film Editing School offering a full range of basic to advanced manufacturer certified training courses, from the Avid, Autodesk, Assimilate and Apple products to the complete suite of Adobe applications. Manhattan Edit Workshop's mission is to provide the highest quality education for filmmakers and editors. Focusing on both the art and technology inherent to our craft. We foster a "learn by doing" approach in an atmosphere where mistakes are encouraged as part of the process and the only "silly" question is the one that isn't asked.

Susan E. Morse ACE, known as “Sandy,” graduated Yale with a degree in History before going to Film School at NYU. She never graduated film school, though, because she took an internship that turned into a job and she never looked back. Early in her career she was an Assistant Editor, working on "Annie Hall" and Interiors. After assisting on a handful of films, she became Woody Allen’s film editor, across the 22-year height of his filmmaking career. But her career isn’t all Woody. In 1980, Sandy was Associate Editor alongside Thelma Schoonmaker on "Raging Bull," worked on Marc Lawrence’s "Two Week’s Notice," "Music and Lyrics" and "Did You Hear About The Morgans?," and cut episodes of "Louie" and "Billions". Right now, she’s working down the hall here at Light Iron on a feature called "Novitiate." She has been nominated for an Oscar, 5 BAFTAs and an Emmy. When she was honored with a Muse Award in 2...

What's the difference between Boris Complete Continuum and the Mocha Pro plug-in? Here's a demonstration that breaks it down. [ Avid Blogs ] The BCPC and MEWTube present Editor Conversations V2: A conversation with legendary film editor Susan E. Morse, ACE [ MEWTube ] Oscar-winning editor Conrad Buff IV, ACE talks about cutting The Huntsman: Winter's War and the challenges of studio notes and screening groups [ Pro Video Coalition ] Forming a narrative for the imaginative independent feature Captain Fantastic [ Creative Planet Network ] Zac Hogle on editing philosophies: "The editor's only job is to serve the story" [ Digi Media Pros ] Editor Josh Beal on cutting Netflix's slow-burning family drama Bloodline [ Post Perspective ]

The cast of Captain Fantastic In Captain Fantastic , Viggo Mortensen plays a survivalist father raising a brood of six kids off the grid in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, whose life is thrown into disarray after his wife commits suicide. The film, written and directed by veteran character actor Matt Ross ( Silicon Valley, Big Love ) earned major praise at Sundance and Cannes, and for good reason: it's by turns intense, funny, and genuinely moving. I recently caught up with editor Joseph Krings to talk about his career and the process of cutting the film. Tell me a little about your schedule for cutting “Captain Fantastic.” How long did it take? What did you cut on? Give me the nuts and bolts of it. The editing schedule for this film was actually somewhat long and luxurious for a film of this size. Matt Ross and I have worked together before on 28 Hotel Rooms and we knew from our previous effort that Matt is most comfortable having ample time to make major decisi...

Manhattan Edit Workshop Training Series: Importing Stills into Premiere Pro with Manhattan Edit Workshop Director of Education Janet Dalton. Manhattan Edit Workshop is a New York Film Editing School offering a full range of basic to advanced manufacturer certified training courses, from the Avid, Autodesk, Assimilate and Apple products to the complete suite of Adobe applications. Manhattan Edit Workshop's mission is to provide the highest quality education for filmmakers and editors. Focusing on both the art and technology inherent to our craft.  We foster a "learn by doing" approach in an atmosphere where mistakes are encouraged as part of the process and the only "silly" question is the one that isn't asked. More information about Manhattan Edit Workshop and the classes offered visit: http://www.mewshop.com/ Follow us on Twitter: @MEWshop / https://twitter.com/mewshop Like us on Facebook Manhattan Edit Workshop: https://www.facebook.com/Manhatta...

Editor Anne V. Coates, ACE discusses the famous "match cut" from "Lawrence of Arabia."  From "Inside the Cutting Room with Bobbie O'Steen" panel from Sight, Sound & Story on June 11th, 2016. For more information go to: https://SightSoundandStory.com. Like us on Facebook at Sight, Sound & Story: https://facebook.com/InsideCuttingRoom?ref=bookmarks Follow us on Twitter: @SightSndStory / https://twitter.com/SightSndStory Anne V. Coates, ACE, is a renowned British editor who has worked on over sixty films, including the classic epic "Lawrence of Arabia," for which she received an Academy Award. She has garnered four additional Academy Award nominations for "Becket," "The Elephant Man," "In the Line of Fire," and "Out of Sight." She was awarded BAFTA’s highest honor, The Academy Fellowship, as well as the Career Achievement Award from American Cinema Editors - and last year Coates was only th...

Manhattan Edit Workshop Instructor Ari Feldman shows how to export master files in the latest version of Apple's Final Cut Pro X. Manhattan Edit Workshop is a New York Film Editing School offering a full range of basic to advanced manufacturer certified training courses, from the Avid, Autodesk, Assimilate and Apple products to the complete suite of Adobe applications. Manhattan Edit Workshop's mission is to provide the highest quality education for filmmakers and editors. Focusing on both the art and technology inherent to our craft. We foster a "learn by doing" approach in an atmosphere where mistakes are encouraged as part of the process and the only "silly" question is the one that isn't asked.

From the panel "Inside the Cutting Room with Bobbie O'Steen," at "Sight, Sound & Story" on June 13th, 2015. William Goldenberg, ACE, has more than twenty film and television credits since 1992. He won the Academy Award for Film Editing for the film Argo, and has been nominated for "The Insider," "Seabiscuit," "Zero Dark Thirty," and "The Imitation Game." He has also received nominations for nine other editing-related awards. Goldenberg has had an extended, notable collaboration with the director Michael Mann including "Heat," "The Insider," "Ali," and "Miami Vice." Some of his other work includes "Unbroken," "Alive," "Pleasantville," "National Treasure," and "National Treasure: Book of Secrets," "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" and "Transformers: Age of Extinction," and "Gone Baby Gone." About...

Cinematographer Jerry Ricciotti discusses shooting on location for "Vice." Recorded at "Sight, Sound & Story: The Art of Cinematography" on September 30, 2015. Jerry Ricciotti is currently a Director of Photography for "Vice," working mainly on our HBO series called "Vice" on HBO and "Vice News." He was nominated for a cinematography Emmy last year and won an Emmy for best informational series. "Vice" on HBO shoots on location with very small teams; so all out work is run and gun where the crew often find themselves wearing many different hats. Prior to "Vice," Jerry was based in California shooting documentaries mainly focused on sports and professional surfing. He currently lives in Brooklyn (which is for about five days a month.)  "Vice" is a documentary TV-series created and hosted by Shane Smith of "Vice" magazine. Produced by Bill Maher, it uses CNN journalist Fareed Zakaria as a...

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Editor Leo Trombetta, ACE discusses the process digitally inserting an actor into a scene from "Wayward Pines."  From "Sight, Sound & Story" on June 11th, 2016. For more information go to: https://SightSoundandStory.com. Like us on Facebook at Sight, Sound & Story: https://facebook.com/InsideCuttingRoom?ref=bookmarks Follow us on Twitter: @SightSndStory / https://twitter.com/SightSndStory