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Editors Are a Cut Above at CineGear

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT

At CineGear 2009, a group of top-notch ACE editors—Mark Goldblatt, Michael Tronnick, Maryann Brandon, Maysie Hoi and Tina Hersch—got together to showcase some of their more challenging editing sequences and describe what’s going on in the business today....

Editor Cara Silverman on Sundance-Bound The Greatest

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 0:00:00 EST

For The Greatest, the new Pierce Brosnan/Susan Sarandon drama in competition at this year's Sundance Film Festival, editor Cara Silverman found a new way of working — based in Los Angeles while the production shot in New York, Silverman let her assistant run the Avid Adrenaline while she cut footage on a laptop loaded with the software version of Avid Media Composer....

Hi-Test Graphics and FX

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST

Santa Monica's Eight VFX brought its knack for sophisticated motion graphics and traditional CG work to "Efficient Dynamics," a BMW spot that compares the engineering features of the new BMW Series 3 to the attributes of a competitive swimmer....

Solid Design for VH1's I Know My Kid's a Star

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT

Solid approached the show opener by building a rickety funhouse ride, full of pitfalls, that represents the shaky ride to fame....

When the Movie is 3D, But the NLEs Are 2D

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT

Journey to the Center of the Earth, directed by Eric Brevig — a filmmaker with lots of experience in the VFX realm — might not have the same historic impact as The Jazz Singer or Becky Sharp, but as the first live-action VFX-driven feature film to be shot for 3D, it can’t help but break new ground....