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Each March, college basketball dominates the month with the insanity of the "March Madness" tournament. This year Manhattan Edit Workshop has picked the top 32 edited narrative feature film scenes to face off for "March Edit Madness"!  The best edited s cene's continue to do battle in ROUND TWO each day on Manhattan Edit  Workshop's facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/ ManhattanEditWorkshop ), where the public will have 24 hours to vote on selected scenes moving on to the next round.  Below are the matchups! ROUND TWO March 23, 2017 EAST 1. Baptism scene in "The Godfather" vs.  4. Splitscreen scene in "Requiem for a Dream"    VOTE HERE:  https://poll.fbapp.io/ bzzfkc WINNER: WEST 1. Pool scene in "The Graduate" vs.  5. Phone booth attack scene in "The Birds"  VOTE HERE:  https://poll.fbapp.io/ lhtbvy WINNER: March 24, 2017 NORTH 1. Subway scene in The French Connection" vs.  4. 'How a...

Hi everyone! Welcome back to the workweek - here's everything we read and talked about this weekend. A guide to demystifying expressions selectors in Adobe After Effects - motion graphics artist and designer Joe Clay provides a simple walk-through of this complex tool [ Lester Banks ] Have you ever seen a lined script and gone "How the heck do I read this"? Welp, you're in luck: Editstock has a great, coherent guide to your script supervisor's hard handiwork [ Editstock ] Adobe Premiere Pro has just introduced a new Team Projects feature in its update - here are ten things that Creative Cloud users need to know [ Premiere Bro ] Da Vinci Resolve 12.5.2 is out, and Jonny Elwyn has a rundown of what's new in the update, as well as a few color grading tutorials for the interface [ Jonny Elwyn ] What's it like to work with Werner Herzog ? As you could probably guess, the answer seems to be "challenging" - his longtime editor of two decad...

Happy Monday! Here's a quick round-up of everything cool we saw in the post-production world this weekend. A look at how Kubo and the Two Strings ' first animated scene came together, via the people at LAIKA Animation Studio [ AOTG ] VFX Supervisor Peter Chiang discusses the classic eye-candy style of Star Trek: Beyond' s visual effects and building a new look for the franchise post-J.J. Abrams [ Studio Daily ] VFX breakdowns aren't just for splashy genre films: here's a look at the visual effects work that went into creating the look of Woody Allen's Cafe Society [ Vimeo ] We're obsessed with Stranger Things here at MEWShop, and the John Carpenter-influenced sound design is a huge factor. Here's an interview with the sound team who created it [ A Sound Effect ] Seriously, we're obsessed. Finally, it's not too late to register for the Evolution Film Festival's "See the Winners" event taking place 8/25 in Los Angeles!...

Happy Monday and happy August! Here's a taste of post-production news and current events for the last weekend of July '16. Video: Fabienne Bouville, ACE talks about taking edit notes for Masters of Sex at Sight, Sound & Story 2015 [ MEWTube ] Oliver Peters offers 12 tips for film editors - an interesting piece for discussion, agree or disagree on all of them [ DigiMedia Pros ] Speaking of useful tips, Screenlight has compiled a list of five major mistakes editors make while freelancing. [ Screenlight ] Supervising sound editor Benjamin Cook talks about creating the sound of sensory overload for the new Cinemax series Outcast [ Post Perspective ] Martín Hernández , sound designer on The Revenant , discusses his career and sound philosophy and shares exclusive looks at his process [ Avid Blogs ] Finally, Steve Hullfish at Pro Video Coalition talked to the editing team on Star Trek: Beyond (Steven Sprung, ACE, Kelly Matsumoto and Dylan Highsmith) as par...

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 ]

Happy Monday! If you're catching up on the weekend's post-production buzz, here's everything we saw fit to tweet about over the break. (No Game of Throne spoilers forthcoming.) The X-Files VFX Breakdown [ CG Meetup ] How to Animate a Winding Rope in Cinema 4D [ Lester Banks ] Avid NEXIS Software-defined Storage Platform is Now Available [ Avid Blogs ] Cutting on Final Cut Pro X at the University of Michigan [ Video Guys ] This week on MacBreak Studio: 360VR video in Final Cut Pro X [ Pro Video Coalition ] Blue Collar Post Collective officially launches West Coast chapter [ Post Magazine ] 5 myths and misconceptions about media management [ Red Shark News ]

Sight, Sound & Story 2016 Promo Video!  MEWShop’s one-day summit returns to New York on June 11, 2016 at the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway. Panels include the art and processes of editing documentary film and episodic television, and behind the the green screen with VFX artists. Our closing panel will highlight the career of award-winning feature film editor Anne Coates, ACE, with author and film historian Bobbie O’Steen. The summit culminates in a gala reception and networking session for guests, panelists and vendors.   [ MEWShop ] Review: RTW Continuous Loudness Control balances our perception of loudness [ Post Perspective ] ART OF THE CUT with Ken Burns’ doc editor Craig Mellish, ACE [ Pro Video Coalition ] Rich Harrington of RHED Pixel shares tips and tricks for making the most of Photoshop in your post-production workflow [ AOTG ] Michael Giacchino ( Up, Inside Out, Super 8 ) Will Compose Doctor Strange Score for Marvel [ SlashFilm ] Oliver Peters Demonstrates...

Glenn Garland interviews Lynn Willingham , Skip McDonald and Kelley Dixon , ACE Editors of “Breaking Bad” [ American Cinema Editors ]  An Interview with William Goldenberg, ACE –  Editor “Argo” and “Zero Dark Thirty" [ American Cinema Editors ] "Naked and Afraid" Blur Editor Tells All [ The Hollywood Reporter ] Wacom broadens digital pen interoperability in partnership with Microsoft [ tech2 ] How to Animate Grades With Keyframes in Resolve [ AOTG ] Technicolor veterans Gareth Cook and Clifton Dugan have opened The Foundation, a new 5,700-square-foot post house in Burbank [ Studio Daily ] Blackmagic Design is now shipping Fusion 8 and Fusion 8 Studio for both Mac OSX and Windows [ CG Meetup ]

The best VFX breakdowns of 2016 (so far), including Deadpool, Ant-Man, and Terminator Genysis. [ Rocketstock ] How Zero FX created a bygone era for the Whitey Bulger biopic Black Mass [ Animation World Network ] BatchFrame releases Move Anchor Point 3 for After Effects, allowing the user to to move an actor point in After Effects without moving the layer along with a host of new, more flexible features [ Lester Banks ] Daniel Peters comes out with a few LUTs for the 4.6K Blackmagic URSA Mini camera [ Cinescopophilia ] What virtual reality really means for the music industry [ HypeBot ] Every Best VFX Winner, Ever: a supercut [ Lester Banks ] Polaroid releases two new camera stabilizers [ AOTG ]

Why film editor Jim Clark was Hollywood's greatest repairman: He completely recut Midnight Cowboy, won an Oscar for The Killing Fields and worked on James Bond. [ The Guardian ] Visualize un-shot sequences with Martini , a storyboarding plug-in for Media Composer: Martini is designed to help you fill in missing shots in your projects so you can better visualize what you have to shoot next. [ Avid ] An interview with editor and Avid-certified trainer Christian Jhonson of Ecuador's Teleamazonas [ Post Perspective ] Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen spoke with CNBC’s Jon Fortt to discuss Adobe’s Q1 2016 earnings and the company’s strategy for growing Adobe Creative Cloud [ Adobe ] Editor Julie "Bob" Lombardi on crafting a scene out of B-roll in World of Jenks [ MEWTube ] Polaroid announces waterproof underwater DSLR case [ AOTG ]