Lee Dichter. Photo by Sarah Shatz by Peter Tonguette When Lee Dichter, CAS, was informed that he would receive the Motion Picture Editors Guild’s 2018 Fellowship and Service Award, it did not take long for the veteran sound re-recording mixer to accept. In fact, it took the equivalent of about “six frames of film” for […]
Editors Guild Recommends No Vote on New Media Contract
Above image: The Editors Guild Board of Directors voted unanimously on July 28 to recommend members VOTE NO on the tentative IATSE contract. Photo by Fred Arteaga. In recommending a “no vote” on the ratification of new IATSE film and TV contract, Editors Guild Local 700 says that the pact’s new media residuals formula has such […]
A Look at CCW – New York’s Biggest Film and Video Show
I covered CCW 2013 — that’s Content & Communications World — for the Editors Guild website. I think it’s a good quick takeaway of some of the most interesting panels and technology at the show, which ran in November at the Javits. I can even promise comments from the always entertaining Evan Schechtman (CTO of […]
A Brief History of Editing Technology
If you’ve gotten involved in motion picture or television editing during the last fifteen years or so, there’s a good chance that your world has been entirely digital from the get-go. If you’re a bit older, you can recall the days before electronic tools came onto the scene, and might even feel younger editors are […]