Tips for Cutting Short : Episode 71

Working on a 5-minute short? A 2-minute trailer? A 15-second commercial spot?

We've got ways you can use to approach that short cut in this episode. Even as short as this episode post!

Links

• Apple Mac Pro Redesign Plans
• The Unskippable Geico Ad
• Need Public Domain Footage?

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Networking Essentials for Video Editors with Rhonda Thain

Josh and special guest Rhonda discuss networking essentials for video editors. They talk about how to make contacts, what kind of contacts to make, how to keep relationships going, how to ask for work, what not to do when you’re networking and so much more.

Also, Josh gives a special announcement :)

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Movies for Every Video Editor : Episode 69

Last week we gave you some book suggestions to further improve your editing skills. But we know you are mostly visual learners so this week we'll give you some suggestions for movies that you should study, analyze and learn from.

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Music track used in this episode: The West Lands, Matt Wigton

Unique Storytelling:

• Memento
• Pulp Fiction

Fast-Paced Sequences:

• Whiplash
• Snatch
• Fury Road
• Saving Private Ryan
• City of God

Poor Examples of Fast-Paced Cutting:

• Underworld: Blood Wars
• Taken 3

Slow-Paced Sequences (the Slow Burn effect):

• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• Once Upon a Time in the West
• The Godfather Part II

Strange/Traumatic Sequences:

• A Clockwork Orange
• Requiem for a Dream
• Pi

How to Edit Conversations/Dialogue:

• Jaws
• The Social Network

Our listeners suggested:

• Paterson - Denis Velinsky
• Side-by-Side - Patrick Boyd and Mark Kipling
• Requiem for a Dream - Justin Richardson
• Raging Bull, Lawrence of Arabia, Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - Liam Cairns
• JFK - Rhonda Thain
• Fight Club, The Innkeepers, Silent Hill - Vandrei Jaques

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Books for Every Video Editor : Episode 68

In this episode we'll give you some suggestions for books that every editor should read (at least once) in his/her lifetime that will push you a little further in the edit bay.

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Music track used in this episode: A New Day 2, Marshall Smith

Did you catch the Oscars? Did you cheer for Moonlight or cry over La La Land by the end? While we missed many of the noms this year, we go over some of the big wins from below the line.

Josh's Book Picks:

• The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
• The Avid Handbook
• Your NLE's manual

Nick's Book Picks:

• Rebel Without a Crew
• BFI Modern Classics Series (focus on Jaws, Thelma and Louise and The Matrix)
• Comics! For their exercise on framing, composition and storyboarding

Our listeners suggested:

• Grammar of the Film Language
• Behind the Seen: How Walter Murch Edited Cold Mountain Using Apple's Final Cut Pro
• In the Blink of an Eye by Walter Murch

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Beat Depression in the Edit Bay : Episode 67

Happy 30th Birthday, Josh!

Join me in congratulating him for surviving on this earth for 30 straight years without incident. Tweet the show or leave a comment and I'll make sure he gets it. Send beer.

Long work hours. No sunlight. Dwindling social life and home time.

With only the occasional interaction with a human. It can get pretty lonely in the edit bay.

Today we talk about how depressing it can be working in post (whether solo at your home office or with a team in a studio) and how you can beat those post-pro blues with just a few changes to your day.

Wipster's big changes to their pricing plan.

You know what else will make you weepy? The video review service made several editors the world over shout in frustration with their 400+% price hike to their plans. Find out how this affects you and what other options there are. (psst...and if you ask us, you should be using Screenlight anyways).

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Other things we mention in this episode:

• Use a white noise generator to keep productive and focused at work. Try https://www.noisli.com/ or https://www.calm.com/

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Should You Charge for Exporting? : Episode 66

Hellooooooo? Can anyone hear us?

Oh, wait. Someone’s there? Oh! It’s you! You, dear listener, are there! Did you forget about us?

We know it’s been awhile. It’s been awhile for us too. We, Nick and Josh, haven’t caught up since before the holidays (yeah…that long ago) and in this episode we get into all sorts of post production topics that have been going on in our lives recently.

• We’ll dive into Nick’s film, one that’s been in “post hell,” that Nick has been resurrecting.
• Josh started a new comedy series and had to make a tough choice between starting it in Premiere or Media Composer.
• Nick applied to join a union, the DGC (Director's Guild of Canada)
• Josh got a kettle bell and has been using it for exercise at his desk regularly
• Nick fell in love with the x5 Challenge on fellow post-production podcast, Fitness in Post
• We talk about Black Mirror, Daredevil (again), Six and basically every TV show out there.

We wrap up the episode talking about an important topic for any editor that charges by the hour.

Do you charge when the computer is working and you aren’t? Do you charge for importing/exporting/rendering/uploading/etc.? Our awesome Facebook group gave us plenty of opinions and we each add our own. Don’t miss this part!

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