Welcome to 2018 : Episode 84

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Good-bye, 2017! It's been real.

Hello, 2018! Please be gentle.

Welcome back to another year of Command+Edit, listeners! Thanks for returning. Josh and I play it light for this episode to bring you up to speed on what went down over the holidays and what's to come in the coming weeks for the show.

This episode we get into:

• New living arrangements, including the complexities of living out of a van
• Josh's Command+Edit meetup in LA
• Top Episodes of 2018
• Movie picks for you to check out
• What did Santa bring you this year??
• and more!

 

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An Editor's Christmas Wishlist : Episode 83

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, listeners!

The holidays are upon us which means only one thing: year-end deadlines are looming for our many projects and we are all doomed!

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I mean...we get to ask Santa for what shiny new toys we could use for next year!

Whether being gifted to us by a jolly fat man, our loved ones or just a little treat to ourselves for retaining our sanity this year, we all have some top requests on our list. What's on your list? More hard drives? Subscription to Adobe for another year (or five)? An editing assistant who works for coffee?

Josh and I list off our top gift requests from Santa this year and had better see a few of these under the tree this year.

Share with us your own Christmas wants via Twitter and we'll see it gets received by the Big Man himself.

Hey, remember our interview with the fellas from SOUNDSTRIPE? Give Episode 65 a listen if you haven't heard it yet.

LINKS

• Behind the Seen by Charles Koppelman
• Concrete Wedding Cake by John Heath
• Varidesk
• AnthroDesk
• Ergotron
• Human Charger

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Premiere Pro Tips That'll Save You Hours : Episode 81

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Nick and Josh are BACK!

In this episode the guys give a ton of useful, time-saving Adobe Premiere Pro tips that you may never have heard before.

SOME TIPS THAT WE COVER:

• Quickly soloing/muting tracks
• Update colors of clips in bins onto timeline
• PDF Viewer Plugin
• Trim to Playhead
• New Search Bin Query
• See how often a clip is used and where it’s used across a project
• Pancake Timeline Wacom Macro Hack

LINKS

• Premiere Pro Feature Request Form
• Heretics Gets Canadian Theatrical Release

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OTHER EPISODES YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO

An Interview with Mae Manning : Episode 74

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Mae was bartending and raising a daughter in Atlanta when a producer approached her after seeing her music mashup projects that she continued to work on in her spare time.

Self-taught and self-propelled, after seeing a trailer for Zack Snyder's 300 she immediately vowed to become an editor.

She's a delightful and talented person to begin with but she's also a real-life example of what you should do if you're passionate about your work but have no doors open to you to the industry.

WATCH THIS

LINKS

• Follow Mae Manning on Twitter
• Art of the Cut: Conversations with Film and TV Editors by Steve Hullfish
• GalsNGear - NAB hosted lively discussions and gear demos with female industry leaders on NAB Show LIVE! — women from across the spectrum of technical jobs in production and post

Song used in this episode was Gatsby's Saloon by Matt Wigton

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An Interview with David Colantuoni, Senior Director of Product Management at Avid : Episode 73

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Josh and special guest David Colantuoni, Senior Director of Product Management at Avid, discuss the upcoming release of Media Composer | First, this year's Avid Connect Conference and what's new and on the horizon for Media Composer.

PS: Josh will be doing some training around Media Composer | First once it is released. Jump on his newsletter to find out more.

LINKS

• Media Composer First
• Avid Customer Association

• Upcoming Avid Conferences (including Avid Connect 2018)

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LISTEN TO OTHER EPISODES

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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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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