By Peter John Ross
www.sonnyboo.com

Wanna know a trick to save your expensive DV camera from getting editorial wear & tear ? (especially all you Canon GL1 owners, or people trying to pay off their GL1’s)

After the shoot, when you have all your footage, and your tapes all numbered, MOST people log their footage as they go using their non-linear editing program (Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, or Avid). Which is really cool that you can mark IN & OUT points, and you can make a digital LOG of your footage on each tape.

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By Peter John Ross
www.sonnyboo.com

 Very rarely in the industry do the Filmmakers get to edit their own pieces. There are exceptions. The obvious ones are Robert Rodriguez and the Coen Brothers, who use the pseudonym “Roderick Jaynes”. But then there are the director’s who “co-edit” their movies with another editor, like Kevin Smith and his uber producer Scott Mosier, or James Cameron who always edits alongside other editors.

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