Montage

[swashbuckler332]

Every time I start editing a project, I am tickled by how much technology has made the filmmaker's job much easier. I had found the hard drive on the camera useful during shooting because I could easily refer to an earlier shot if I needed to reference continuity or make the eyelines match. But it is in editing that the true advantage of a hard

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[revolos55]

rather than wasting one of our crewmembers on the thankless, annoying task of boom operator (a tiring job that nobody acknowledges unless something is going wrong), simply I put the Sennheiser on a mic stand.

*sigh* There goes one of my only two marketable on-set skills, the other being the lugging of equipment to and fro.

[swashbuckler332]

Well, there will never be a time when lugging of equipment to and fro won't be a useful skill. And to be honest, most of this crew are not experienced filmmakers and they've been more valuable to me than the crews of experienced filmmakers I've worked with (of course, the latter thought they were all Stanley fucking Kubrick or something).

[ehowton]

I used to do my own 8mm editing AGES AND AGES ago on a Steenbeck. I bet what you're doing now must feel like *magic* comparatively.

[swashbuckler332]

I'd edited projects before digitally, but capturing movies from a DV camera is an arduous process filled with frustration. This was so much nicer even before we transferred the footage to the computer (the camera just comes up as another hard drive on the computer).