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A monthly newsletter curating the most interesting and informative videos, articles, interviews, and podcasts on editing, post-production, and filmmaking that we've come across over the previous month. Check out previous editions or subscribe below.

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The Cutting Room Dozen #9 - Sundance, The Dynasty, Documentary Editing, VP, Trim Mode, and more

The Cutting Room Dozen April 6, 2024 The Cutting Room Dozen #9 - Sundance, The Dynasty, Documentary Editing, VP, Trim Mode, and more Hi there, Welcome to our latest selection of editing, post-production, and film-making-related content. This is quite an education-focused edition. The purpose of The Cutting Room is to help you to think, act, and edit like a Pro, but I’m currently also spending a lot of my time teaching editing at University, and doing that is continuing to force me to think...

26 days ago • 3 min read

The Cutting Room Dozen Jan 4, 2024 The Cutting Room Dozen #8 - Paul Hirsch, Victoria Boydell, Kirk Baxter, Alfred Hitchcock and more Hi there, Welcome to this month's selection of editing, post-production, and film-making-related content. #1 - An interview with Oscar-winning editor Paul Hirsch, ACE about his storied career Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Carrie, Ferris Beuller's Day Off, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Footloose, Falling Down…. Paul Hirsch has certainly worked on a few...

4 months ago • 2 min read

The Cutting Room Dozen #7 After a bit of a hiatus, here are twelve interesting things I’ve been reading, watching, and listening to in my very limited spare time recently. #1 - Editors on Editing w/ Killers of the Flower Moon Editor: Thelma Schoonmaker Martin Scorsese’s legendary collaborator discusses their long working relationship and the challenges of their latest project. #2 - The Rough Cut: Meet the Editors Who Cut a Big Slice of “Beef” The Emmy-nominated team behind Beef talk about how...

5 months ago • 2 min read

The Cutting Room Dozen #6 Hello and welcome to your monthly rundown of some of the most interesting editing, post-production, and filmmaking-related content online. I've included a couple of links to articles and videos on AI over the past 2 or 3 months and they've proved particularly popular. That’s not especially surprising given all the discussion and fears around the explosive rise of AI in 2023, so I thought I’d collect together some of the things I've been reading and watching recently...

8 months ago • 3 min read

The Cutting Room Dozen #5 Hello and welcome to your monthly rundown of some of the most interesting editing, post-production, and filmmaking-related content online. #1 - Nick Houy, ACE and the Barbie post team discuss Barbie The ever excellent Steve Hullfish returns for his in-depth interview with the Editorial team behind the box-office monster that is Barbie. #2 - Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson & Eddie Hamilton talk Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One The Filmmakers Podcast interview...

9 months ago • 2 min read

The Cutting Room Dozen #4 Hello and welcome to your monthly rundown of some of the most interesting editing, post-production, and filmmaking-related content online. #1 - AI will replace 80% of all editors Sven Pape of This Guy Edits ponders how much AI might change editing. #2 - Art of the Cut Podcast - Air with William Goldenberg, ACE Oscar-winner William Goldenberg discusses his work on Ben Affleck’s Air. #3 - Indiana Jones in black & white is awesome As Steven Soderbergh demonstrated,...

10 months ago • 2 min read

The Cutting Room Dozen #3 Hello and welcome to your monthly rundown of the best editing and filmmaking related content from around the internet. #1 - Succession Director Mark Mylod Breaks Down That Scene From Connor's Wedding SEASON 4 SPOILERS!! A behind the scenes look at a key scene from the show's latest season. #2 - Succession: How The Camera Lies And a look at how the show’s famous handheld, snap reframe style is constructed. #3 - Steven Soderbergh’s Editing Notes For ‘The Knick’ I...

11 months ago • 2 min read

The Cutting Room Dozen #2 Hello and welcome to your monthly rundown of some of the most interesting editing-related content out there. #1 - Editor Simon Smith on Andor Emmy and BAFTA-winning editor Simon Smith breaks down the editing of episodes 9 and 10 of Andor, discussing some of the choices made in the cutting room, and why those choices were made. #2 - Editing Storage Guide: Best Setup for 2023 SSD? HDD? RAID? NAS? Most of us cut at home or in our own workspaces from time to time, and...

almost 1 year ago • 2 min read

Hello and welcome to the first edition of our new monthly newsletter The Cutting Room Dozen. Once a month I’m going to collate links to my 12 favorite editing or filmmaking related articles, videos, podcasts or interviews that I’ve come across over the past month. For this first edition I’ve pulled together my favorite content from the past year. #1 - Editing the original Top Gun Here’s a great behind the scenes look at the challenges of editing a major motion picture and a great insight into...

about 1 year ago • 2 min read
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