Re: See yourself in this clip?

"What kind of floor is that?"

"Space floor?"

That's funny. I've always liked Albert Brooks.
It's great when a film shows you real life. Film editing can be pretty boring to an outside observer.

Reminds me of a particular edit session. I picked up a guy at the airport - he flew in for the day to work on his video. I had already done an initial edit. We sat down in the edit bay and made our edit decisions to the EDL while watching the 1" of the edit...keep this...delete that...etc. For you kids in the audience, before we have FCP and Avids, we did our edits to an EDL. You wanna know how long the final video is? Ripple Edit. Just save your work because there is only 1 Undo.

But then if you want to watch the edit, you need to Assemble the edit. You load the source tape and let the computer take over. One edit at a time. As this was happening, the guy was getting really frustrated "why can't we just watch it in real time? Why must we sit here and watch every edit individually?"

Because that's how it works.

Now you make the same decisions just with different technology.

Great links.

Mike Cohen