The Edit Bay

The editor and the NLE must be as one...

Camera people always leave me notes on the footage they shoot...this is my note to them.

Editing with a laptop is pretty common nowadays. But it wasn't all that common in 2003, on the set of a David Mamet mov... Read more

Sometimes an editor can get too involved in a project, and needs another set of eyes and opinion to help them tell the s... Read more

Do you have clients that work you to death, for little or no pay? Then you are working for a Grinder...

Please don't sit next to us when we tackle the first edit. Leave us to our own devices.

A blacksmith bucks the system by making a new hammer and changing the way blacksmithing is done. So does Apple

The danger of going above and beyond…

The issues that working from home can be. Kids, wife, internet and video games.

The dangers of using temporary music in your projects

TV Networks and film studios more and more want to "green light" the editor who is slated to work on projects.

Using making a puzzle as a metaphor for cutting a documentary and reality show. No, really...it's a cool metaphor, as me... Read more

In this episode, I talk about working on shows outside your normal field of work

Editor's today need to know how to edit music, even if they aren't musician

A network executive can't seem to tear his eyes away from his iPad while giving notes on a show.

Many movies and TV shows have little easter eggs hidden in them...commercials too. I tell you a few examples of Easter e... Read more

There is a difference in how news production and documentary production happens...here are two stories about how we lear... Read more

In order to use that great sound effect you like, you first need to find it.

Editors aren't button pushers, we are story tellers. And this is a story about when I had issues with a script...

The cutting room isn't only my favorite place to work…other people like it too.