I appreciate the past editors but man, I'm I glad I live in the the digital age. I can now edit video, audio & do FX along with tiles on my laptop. Shweeeeet!
Very good insight into 16\35 film viewing and process of lacing up sep. film & sound elements. SteenBecks were obviously built to a very high standard. No wonder Spielberg loves editing on them. Love your blue tack holding cable around door frame @ 18:46 :)
Ah yes, because spending the majority of the time on the technical side of editing is far better than using tools that allow you to focus on the creative side
George Tudu Well.... I hate to say this but if I really am serious on filming my movie on 16 or 35mm, I have to make the titles look very filmy as well. So a physical editing machine might be a great option for reasons that I thought fits. Though I'm not gonna be he editor so instead someone have to edit the movie for me.
Out of curiosity...why would you ever want to go back to this? This is just such an inefficient and creatively limiting way of editing. If you have the option to edit digitally...why wouldn’t you?
Very interesting. I noticed at around 9:55 however that the staff were handling the film very roughly, which to me seems counter-productive for a restoration. Just how much damage is caused to film through day-to-day handling?
Yeah, I get that. But how on earth would they edit multicam? Like concerts or theatre performances filmed with 6 or 8 cameras? How could they keep that all in sync and preview everything?
norelco pc Yea and so what if we are and what difference does that make? I still do not want to edit like that if I have the choice I prefer a computer the vast majority of the time. Ask most editors regardless of their age and I am confident to type out that they will tell you that they prefer to edit on a computer instead of the older way even veteran editors I am confident most of them prefer using a computer. The only thing I have heard about the older linear way of editing that can still be useful, according to one of my film school professors, is that it helps to give you a better eye with editing. I would not mind trying out this linear modeling way just to see if this is true and to also say I have experienced it, but come on you have to admit the older editing system is just not as practical the computer is better. The linear model is probably more expensive cause of all the stuff you to buy plus having to use film reels. Also I said it is interesting to see him do it so at least acknowledge that as well.
norelco pc I believe I am showing respect I said it is interesting to watch him edit that way. I'm not saying others should not do it if they have the chance to do it if they want to edit like that than go ahead and do so.
+MYSPACE FUN It's the novelty of it that attracts the young under 30 crowd. As for us geezers who started off in film this way, well.... this throwback cutting is shear nostalgia. Most of us love the new technologies that are being used today I can't see myself going back to this. I like film but digital is a much better medium to work in. I can even make it emulate old film stocks that you would not be able to tell the difference. After processing in post, anyone who claim that they can tell the difference are lying so take their stubborn ego with a grain of salt. However a buddy of mine still has his Steenbecks and uses them to edit footage he takes with his dozen or so old 16mm Bolex and Aaton cameras. I guess he is very nostalgic.
i actually have a reel of film that has a optical sound track, its a trailer for men of honor. i have no way at all to play it, or even take pictures of each frame
The picture of a girl in the film leader (sometimes called a China Girl) was a crude way of checking that the film processing had worked OK, and that the flesh tone colours looked as they should.
