Editing Truths For Better Living
THE 2011 EDITION OF OUR FAVORITE CONTEST!
Attention editors! We are looking for “Editing Truths” — thoughts and aphorisms that ring true in your life. In fact, we are turning this into a contest – its free, fun, and informative.
In 20 words or less, send us your favorite “editing truth.” Submissions may be either serious or humorous.
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THE RULES
- Entry is free!
- ANYONE can enter!
- ENTER as many times as you want!
- Text must be rated PG or better for consideration!
- No purchase necessary. This contest runs until we get tired of it.
Some of my favorites from the last time we ran this contest:
- “Picture lock isn’t.”
- “No one is interested in actually reviewing your edit until two days after you delete the project from your hard drive.”
- “Nobody checks spelling until the master is posted to the web.”
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Winning entries will be announced:
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- In Larry’s monthly Final Cut Studio Newsletter
- And anywhere else we can think of to share these.
Winners receive their choice of one free Larry Jordan tutorial – with over 60 to choose from!
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Email your submission today! (Enter as many times as you like.)
FINE PRINT
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We announce new winners in our contest each week. But, in case you missed them, or want to check out their websites, here are our most recent winners. (Winners come from around the world and across the US.)
WEEK OF DECEMBER 5
#1. Jes Webb: If you have to make a choice…..make sure your audience walks away from the program wishing they had seen more instead of wishing they had seen less.
#2. Rick Gehron: Client: “That’s an easy move to do in After Effects. I don’t know how to do it, but I know it’s pretty easy.”
#3. Paul Kelleher: If its 80% good, stop noodling. Later, it will either look great, or you’ll be able to fix it easily.
#4. Limor Fine: The editing room is not an emergency room. No editing is a matter of life or death. Can’t we go home and continue tomorrow?
WEEK OF NOVEMBER 28
#1. Norm Hartman: Days of editing can save you hours of planning.
#2. Sammy Rodriguez: All the flash frames, wind blurs, cross zooms, 300 speed ramps or vfx available to man will do little to help a poor story.
#3. Robert Bracken: When you are watching video a minute can seem like a second. When you’re editing video a minute can seem like an hour.
#4. Justin Lowe: Once you think you can’t possibly cut it down anymore you can still cut it down some more.
WEEK OF NOVEMBER 21
#1. Daniel Todd Villegas: A good editor knows how to trim the fat, a better editor knows how to cook the steak. A great editor can raise a lean cow. The best editors, well, they know when to leave the farm.
#2. Peter Hitchcock: Just give me lots of close-ups.
#3. Norm Hartman: Pay for what you get or you’ll pay for what you got.
#4. Sam Mangan: I’m absolutely convinced that rendering seems to take longer for me than everybody else.
WEEK OF NOVEMBER 14
#1. Dave Whittaker: Video editing is the most creative thing to do… and the most excruciatingly boring thing to watch someone else do.
#2. John McMenamin: Video editing is one of the few professions where most of the world knows how to do your job better than you do.
#3. Adrian Beard: Producer: I’d like to get in tighter on the image, but without making it bigger on screen.
#4. Phil Coulloudon: Clients don’t know what they want until you show them something, then they quickly tell you what they don’t want.
WEEK OF NOVEMBER 7
#1. George Bartley: No matter how good it is, nothing trumps actually finishing.
#2. Holden Kim: Shots a producer considers boring, when put together right, could create a sense of time, space and what goes on inside of a character’s mind.
#3. Burl Ross: Client: “This scene is still too long. Add more clips.”
#4. Joshua Rosenbaum: You know your editing session is done when you start using your forehead to operate the keyboard.
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Larry Jordan is a post-production consultant and an Apple-Certified Trainer in Digital Media with over 25 years experience as producer, director and editor with network, local and corporate credits. Based in Los Angeles, he’s a member of both the Directors Guild of America and the Producers Guild of America.
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