The Edit Bay

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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 eggs I and my fellow editors have planted.

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

Editors are already pigeon holed into categories such as scripted or documentary or reality, but now we are being categorized by the TV networks we cut for.

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

My daughter describes how editing is like the game of Minecraft. Minus network notes…

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.

Everyone steals…for inspiration.

The danger of going above and beyond…

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

Why what I see on TV ends up not looking anything like what I saw in my edit bay...