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Every once in a while — while ducking from the strafing runs
of the various NL manufacturers' P.R. machines — we've been
lucky enough to run across some genuinely useful bit of philosophy
or wisdom which not only seemed pretty insightful at the time ...
but still is now, even years after the fact.
This select handful of essays has influenced our
own way of thinking about editing and the equipment we use to do
it — and so we're very happy to be able to reprint them here,
thanks to the kind permission of their respective authors. (A very
select handful of relevant Web links is also included here as well.)
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Thinking "Outside the Box"
A "Scenaria" for Video, by Dean
Winkler
An industry heavyweight challenges manufacturers to build his Nonlinear
dream machine ...
The Panel is in: An Operator's View of the
Ideal User Interface, by Mike Krim
Think cutting from one camera to the next in post-production is
a challenge? Try doing the equivalent for live TV!
And for what it's worth, they don't use no stinkin' mouse ...
Aesthetics
Beautiful Transitions, by Edward
Lapple
Just unwrapped your spiffy new Whiz Bang-a-tron 3000? Be forewarned,
though — when it comes to visual pyrotechnics, very often,
less is more ...
Traditional Film Editing vs. Electronic Nonlinear
Film Editing:
A Comparison of Feature Films, by Michael Brandt
We all know Nonlinear has revolutionized the way films are edited
(yadda yadda yawn) — but does the moviegoer actually
see a difference in the finished result? Here's a guy who
says the answer is "yes," and he's got the stats to prove
it ...
Technique
Dear Nonlinear Picture Editing Department,
by Larry Blake
Just because you're cutting your film Nonlinearly doesn't
make all your picture/sound post-production problems go away —
on the contrary, there are more little gremlins lurking in the shadows
than ever! Herein, an industry veteran offers some hard-won words
of advice for working with the sound team on your next "digital"
film ...
Windows Keyboard Secrets, by Ron
Diamond
Ready or not, technology and politics are conspiring to create
some significant changes in the way many editors do their
work. But why settle for getting by ... when you can have mastery
instead?
Critical Thinking
Questioning Technology
Thought-provoking essays, from TV Technology columnist Frank ("The Big Picture") Beacham.
Amusing
Ourselves to Death
A book by author Neil Postman that offers an incisive understanding
of how Television (and other technologies) change the way we think.
Once you understand it, you may never look at The Tube the same
way again.
Rubin's
Short and Personal Booklist
Envisioning
Information, Tufte
(and pretty much anything by Tufte, if you like
this stuff)
On Photography,
Sontag
The
Design of Everyday Things, Norman
Wabi-Sabi
- for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers, Koren
In the
Blink of an Eye, Murch
The
Language Instinct, Pinker
Advent
ures in the Screen Trade, Goldman
The
Discoverers, Boorstin
The
Age of Missing Information, McKibben
Faster
: The Acceleration of Just About Everything, Gleick
The
Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Jaynes
and of course ...
Understanding
Media, McLuhan
... and lastly, Fun
Technology Marches On
Some analog-to-digital wisdom from, of all places, "KRUD-FM."
Post-Production
Horror Stories
Priceless gems from the reality of the trenches.
The Onion
Nothing whatsoever to do with editing — film, video or otherwise
— it's just one of our favorite satirical sites on the World
Wide Web.
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