In this episode, I talk about a show that was cancelled midway through production.

Ep. 058 - Failure to Launch

IN this episode, a New Media company bit of a bite more than it could chew.

Ep. 057 - New Media Fumble

This one is about the time I was THIS CLOSE to meeting one of my favorite actors...

Ep. 056 - Missed Him By That Much

In this episode, we get a little help from the camera operators.

Ep. 055 - What About That Shot?

I have a producer who tells the best Hollywood History stories. I share a couple.

Ep. 054 - Screening Room Stories

Using making a puzzle as a metaphor for cutting a documentary and reality show. No, really...it's a cool metaphor, as metaphors go.  Here... "Editing a documentary is like assembling a 1000 piece puzzle with 40,000 pieces."  See? Cool, right?

Ep. 053 - Puzzle

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

Ep. 052 - Not Your Forte

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

Ep. 051 - Music Editing

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

Ep. 50 - The Tablet Crowd

Many movies and TV shows have little easter eggs hidden in them...commercials too. I tell you a few examples of Easter eggs I and my fellow editors have planted.

Ep. 49 - Easter Eggs

Stories from the edit bay.  The bad clients, the disasters, the triumphs...the fun stuff.

I love it. Fun stories about editing. Not much else to say. I&#39;m just leaving this review because I know it&#39;s good for podcasts, and I want to do something for this project. So there we go.

Love it

If you are an editor then you will relate to, or soon relate to these stories. Great listen.

Great stuff

The Edit Bay

Ep. 036 - Way of the NLE

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

Ep. 038 - A Note to Camera People

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

Ep. 031 - Laptop Editing

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

Ep. 027 - Fresh Eyes

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

Ep. 034 - Grinders

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

Ep. 040 - Leave Us Editors Alone

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

Ep. 035 - The Hammer

Ep. 041 - More Than They Paid For

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

Ep. 004 - Working From Home

The dangers of using temporary music in your projects

Ep. 003 - Temp Music

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

Ep. 037 - Getting Approval

There is a difference in how news production and documentary production happens...here are two stories about how we learned this the hard way.

Ep. 48  - PREROLL

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

Ep. 046 - WHOOSH

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

Ep. 044 - Speaking Up

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

Ep. 043 - The Cutting Room

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