Back to the Editing Board

Had a great editing workshop last night at the Film Group. It became painfully clear to me that I need to try to shave off at least a minute or two from my film - maybe more. I've been away from the footage for about a week now, so I think I will be able to go back in with a little bit of perspective and do the hard work that has to be done!

But it was good to find out from the guy that my basic techniques are the same things he does - he taught me a few shortcuts, but when I asked about some buttons I've never used, he said he doesn't use them either! He did show me some cool stuff in the video filters that I might try.

It's not really a surprise that editing film should be like editing fiction or scripts. Make the broad strokes and then go back in to pare down. Just more painful in film, because I know how much work went into making each shot happen. Can see now why there are director's cuts and extra deleted scenes on DVD's!