Jim Cummings is the hardest working filmmaker I know 

I talked to Jim Cummings about his new feature film The Beta Test, film financing, and the future of the filmmaking industry.
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Thunder Road (Jim's Sundance-winning short film): vimeo.com/174957219
0:00 - Intro
0:49 - Films that influenced Jim
2:32 - Editing of Thunder Road
4:02 - Screening early edits
7:01 - Blocking actors and action
10:08 - Use of ADR in long takes
12:17 - Crowd equity film financing
16:44 - Writing and researching process for The Beta Test
21:23 - Cool shots in The Beta Test
24:06 - About editing his own films
27:10 - Audio mixing in Adobe Audition
30:11 - Color grading for The Beta Test
31:16 - Restructuring in the edit
34:17 - Qualities of great editors
36:05 - Calling 'action' on set
38:12 - Film industry in the post-Covid world
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