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Cutting It Close: Editing Tear Jerkers with Dan Zimmerman

Dan Zimmerman, A.C.E., was born and raised in California. You could say editing is in his blood. He is the son of legendary editor Don Zimmerman, and his twin brother Dean, and younger brother David are both editors. The Zimmermans cross the fourth dimension as his sisters Dana and Debbie [...]

DaVinci Resolve Adds Multicamera Editing

DaVinci Resolve has added multicamera editing along with a whole slew of editing updates to version 12. The multicam mode acts like you would expect it to with very familiar steps for syncing angles and cutting in the timeline. From the Blackmagic website: Multi-cam editing in [...]

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Cutting It Close™ with William Goldenberg

I had a chance to talk with William “Billy” Goldenberg who won the Academy Award last year for editing Argo. He also cut Zero Dark Thirty and Transformers to name a few. We discussed his techniques for cutting real world event films, apprenticing with Steven Spielberg's [...]

By |2017-05-31T08:28:01-04:00December 12th, 2014|Categories: Editing, News, Technology|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on Cutting It Close™ with William Goldenberg

NAB2013: Blackmagic Design Busts Open NLE Editing with Resolve 10

The NAB show floor opened today and approximately 90,000 attendees clammored to discover the new toys, technologies and services offered by the world's best television related companies. I scouted for editing and live streaming goodies and scheduled some key interviews for Wednesday to stream live. [...]

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Adobe Adopts Multicam Book for World-Wide Field Team

It was a real honor to get a call from Adobe's Evangelist Dave Helmly asking to adopt my book Mastering Multicamera Techniques (Focal Press) for the Adobe World Wide Field Team. Of course I said yes...they bought 50 copies! The team uses the book and [...]

By |2017-05-31T08:28:02-04:00June 21st, 2012|Categories: Editing, Mastering Multicam, News, Technology|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on Adobe Adopts Multicam Book for World-Wide Field Team

Wednesday on “Cutting it Close- Live! from NAB with Mitch Jacobson

Today's live show at 3:30PM PST (6:30 PM EST) is our last program from NAB. Thanks to everyone who helped make this an incredible experience!... Today's guests include: Creative Cow Tech Guru Bob Zelin, Bryce Button-AJA, Colorist Alexis Van Hurkman, AutoDesk's Smoke on Mac, Avid, NVIDIA, [...]

Tuesday on Cutting it Close- Live! from NAB with Mitch Jacobson

Today's live show  at 3:30PM PST (6:30 PM EST) guests include: Al Caudullo- 3D editing with Edius, Walter Biscardi-editor of Good Eats, Bruce Sharpe-Singulars Software/PluralEyes, Phillip Nelson- NewTek Tricaster, Jose Burgos- All Mobile Video and Virtual Sets, Jenna Rappolt-Noyes- Tiffen. Join the conversation: #ASKNAB watch here: [...]

Cutting it Close- Live! from NAB 2012 with Mitch Jacobson

Hello from Vegas, everyone! I am happy to announce that I will be hosting my blog live from NAB again this year with my special live streaming series “Cutting it Close- Live from NAB! with Mitch Jacobson” starting tomorrow. This three-day livestream series will include [...]

CineMontage: CUT/PRINT- Ray Zone on Mastering Multicamera Techniques

This review by Ray Zone appears in the current issue of CineMontage, The Editor's Guild Magazine: (March 2012- by Ray Zone) This is a monster of a book, certainly the last word on this large and very complex subject that is of supreme interest, above all, [...]

My latest cut: Kid Rock: Live at Graceland on PBS

Kid Rock, Getty Images Kid Rock: Live at Graceland premiered Friday on PBS and Hulu Plus nationwide. It's the third episode I edited for Live from the Artist Den. This was a 15-song set, eight camera show directed by JoJo Pennebaker cut on FCP 7 in [...]

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