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"It's kind of amazing how much a simple change can impact the overall meaning of a film."
"I think it's really good when whoever cuts a trailer... can work in conjunction with the director."
"Getting the right level of continuity and editing before the Snyder Cut releases."
"Screen direction and movement are as every bit important as actually learning how to edit in transitions in post."
"I'm super excited to watch the theatrical cut because with the understanding of how things are laid out, I think that it makes more sense pacing-wise."
"Every cut, every edit had a purpose and a flow to it."
"The Snyder cut gives Cyborg his full backstory."
"Every cutaway from them is way more interesting."
"I think the Snyder cut fans would just be really happy and grateful."
"The good drama was life with all the dull bits cut out."
"It was just an absolute treat to see something so well edited."
"Apparently, Keanu Reeves, like, got rid of, like, half his dialogue. He doesn't want to speak a whole lot. Really, it's like John Wick speaks with his fight."
"Cross-cutting to pique interest, build tension, and carefully divide the delivery of necessary information."
"What does this montage supposed to make me feel, happy?"
"This train sequence... it all flows so well."
"The fact that this part of the night is so deliberately not shown in the edit makes me think Laurie may have cut off the bus with her car, causing it to crash in a roadside ditch."
"I mean, it just blazes by, every cut is interesting, every beat is perfectly timed."
"What they should do is have Deadpool say he's been in the MCU all along by showing scenes from old MCU films with Deadpool edited into the background."
"This trailer was just cut so well." - Kristian Harloff
"Adjusting elements like contrast and exposure is part of color correction."
"Making key elements like skin tones look right is crucial."
"Every single time even the stuff that's in the trailers was with the extra one or two seconds that was in the trailer elevated it so much."
"The editing on Big John's dancing to that awesome Halloween song... it's so great."
"Give them what they want for the entire movie rather than trying to cut it down, water it down, and seeing just how much crap you can put in their water before they call it sewage."
"A scene showing a same-sex kiss in light year was actually cut from the film before release but restored following an internal uproar."
"Everyone had their own little moment, even the way they cut the movie, it's basically like watching the cartoon."
"The bulk of the jokes are delivered in the editing."
"Your first shot's going to be the longest... and every subsequent shot's going to be a little shorter."
"This meant biting the bullet and cutting out every frame of shadow, layering them, and then adding the color effects in Vegas."
"In a scene like this, it'd probably be about 20 to 30 cuts at the minimum in order to achieve the same feeling of this one take that's happening in the game."
"Essentially what he wanted to do was make what he considered to be the definitive versions, something to replace the originals and become the Star Wars that people had access to."
"Riz Ahmed as Bodhi Rook is fantastic... sad so much of his story got left on the cutting room floor."
"It all makes a lot of sense now with all the drama about Hayden back a few months ago it sounds like they had filmed with him as well as others but they were in the process of cutting those scenes."
"This time the request is coming from inside the film, which at this point is the only place a legitimate request for a Villeneuve cut of Dune could come from because no one else has seen it."
"Great editing makes the film look like it wasn't directed at all."
"The blink human beings blinking is the equivalent of in film cutting from one shot to another that Harriman himself is editing his own movie."
"It's cut together about as well as possible without making it abundantly obvious nobody's really there."
"Literally every penny I made on The Matrix went home and bought... Adobe Premiere 1.0."
"If you don't understand editing, you're not going to be able to create the character."
"Now let's talk about that deleted opening scene which I think is perfect."
"The runtime is going to be fluctuating around two hours when we add the credits. And so I don't think it'll get much shorter to be honest. I don't think it'll get much longer either."
"Audio syncing up with visual cuts... generally good."
"Editing is something that I think is probably the most creative part of making a film."
"In fact, the biggest challenge they had with the movie trilogy was deciding what to cut out of it."
"I love editing. I love editing. I love it. Um, it's like this crazy puzzle piece and watching all the takes and it's just that side is very fun."
"I've been working on a lot of video projects... I got him this book that I read about film editing... it taught me a lot about how I approach the philosophy of film editing."
"I edit while I film which is weird, it's just always how I've done it and the only way that kind of makes sense to me."
"I think it's a beneficial scene and I don't think it should have been cut to begin with."
"His garment was ripped, but his integrity was intact."
"It's interesting to note that Alan tried to used a teacher puppet during this sequence but ultimately cut it out of the film because it was deemed too theatrical."
"Every movie has a unique run time that is right for it."
"That cut made me feel seen in an interesting way, that's the best way I can describe that cut."
"We filtered all of these tropes and jokes through the mind and editing of Edgar Wright and it came out beautiful."
"Even the same scenes were replaced with the original superior versions."
"Editing is immensely important for what the film turns out to be. It indicates the pacing. I love editing."
"You can edit your film in Premiere Pro as you always would."
"In editing this, we wanted it to be less about physical competence and more about a mental competence."
"Innovators like Thelma Shoemaker, Dede Allen, Andy Coats, and Verna Fields completely reimagined the art of visual filmmaking."
"The editing of that whole dance sequence is just fantastic."
"The editing was damn near perfect in this movie."
"Psycho because when you see the shower scene the way Hitchcock masterfully cut it together it's very quick it's very jumpy with the music really accentuates the action."
"It's just so full of energy, the editing is so unique and fun."
"That was the best one, that Dosa, that was the best pick I got though. Edit movies, yeah, that's like the ultimate demo."
"Sometimes the choice of when not to cut is the most important choice an editor can make."
"It adds so much to her character as we leave her on a very different note than the original cut of the film did."
"...that's the one thing that does seem to happen with all these films is like oh if only you move this to hear this to hear this to here and tighten this up oh you'd have a banger on your hands..."
"The editing of the back and forth between the different timelines and the fact that they made a small hearing in a tiny room feel like an action scene."
"The editing in this movie still has that same sharp sudden quick pace to it that Shaun of the Dead had."
"I love how simple the Creed montage is. It doesn't get caught up and convoluted in a lot of showy exercises. It's mainly just running and boxing and the execution of those minimal elements gives it Maximum Impact."
"Every single cut must be motivated. There has to be a reason to cut."
"It's weird how because the thing about editing is is that it's literally meant to do exactly that to quickly move you between scenes in a way that like Cuts time out and like is efficient but but doesn't confuse you yeah."
"The power of cinema and identification: pulling you in just the way he cuts it, the way it flows."
"The editing here is executed so well."
"Even editing, like, 20 years ago, when you had to do it on a steambox, sure, you needed three, four people to edit a film. Now, all you need is one or two people to sit in front of a computer."
"There is absolutely no doubt that the editing of Spider-Man across the Spider-Verse was astronomical."
"1917 got it because the way that they did the one take they had to like erase the dirt that was tracked by like the car that was carrying the camera."
"It's truly one of the best edited films in recent memory."
"Hereditary, Marriage Story, my God the editing in those films is immaculate."
"Editing is something where it is extremely important because done well, you have a great positive influence on a project."
"I think if you cut probably 40 minutes out of this, there's actually a very solid movie here."
"Fall in love with the whole music and editing and film."
"Editing: a formalist might study how standard Hollywood continuity editing creates a more comforting effect."
"The editing of this movie, dude, is like, you'd almost say like the writing is great, the story, but if the editing isn't done absolutely right, I don't think this movie takes off."
"It's a very efficiently edited film."
"There's some great editing, some interesting choices at points."
"Editing is complex, man. Rhythm, pace, emotion through cutting."
"Do you think he, Jigsaw, like after he filmed something, he puts it into iMovie and adds that filter effect to it?"
"Avid would go on to become the gold standard for editing in Hollywood."
"It's really well edited; at this point, it is so easy to call Superbad overrated, but when you watch it, you really just do appreciate it as being one of the most influential comedies of its time."
"You want to be able to put this film onto your computer somehow so you can edit it."
"There's just a ton that you can do with color grading and color correction."
"Generally, the best fight scenes have minimal cuts so you can see the flow of combat."
"It's an editing nightmare, but it's a viewing joy."
"Subtractive color allows you to modify how your film has been responding to the light and how the emulsion layers have been capturing color."
"This is where the magic happens, people. This is where it's predominantly skin tones that I'm worried about, and they're not moving around too much."
"Editing is very important when it comes to Best Picture."
"The best editing is often one that buries details of a movie into our subconscious, only for them to be realized later."
"Editing allows you to creatively stitch separate moments together in order to make the action appear to be continuous."
"The goal is to make editing invisible to the audience."
"Comedies started using a lot of improv... so a lot of comedies then started being found in the edit."
"I've been a film editor for 21 years now, I mostly work in advertising."
"Oh my God, the transitions in this film are insane... it kind of throws your head for a spin."
"Our editors are basically our directors, I could say co-directors."
"Film lovers rejoice with Darktable."
"Matching up shots based on either the position of my subject, the motion of the camera, color, even sound, helps to blend shot A and shot B together a little more seamlessly."
"Groundhog Day may be one of the most perfectly edited movies I've ever seen."
"Here we go, two undistorted plates composited together as promised."
"The editing was topnotch, the storyline was amazing."
"Always put in backgrounds running throughout the entire film, including the credits."
"There's so much stuff you can do in the color page when it comes to getting detailed like this, so much fun."
"Once you grade the shot, it totally comes to life."
"You can take a shot and cut it next to another shot and it means something different than either of the shots."