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Rachel Bastarache Bogan is a owner of Renegade Digital Post — a video editing company providing Hollywood-caliber services to filmmakers and content producers outside of Hollywood. In this interview, Nick and Josh find out Rachel’s strategies for working with new clients, how she finds clients not only locally but across the globe, and much more.

Useful links:

• Renegade Digital Post (Rachel's company)
• Rachel's Twitter: @rachelfinder
• How to Edit Videos That People Want to Watch (Rachel's book)
• Taipei in Motion Video (Rachel's viewing recommendation)
• Screenlight (online video review service)
• Getting Things Done (book)
• The 12-Week Year (book)

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In this episode we bring our friend Twain Richardson on to guest as he tells us all about setting up a career right in the heart of Jamaica. Establishing oneself in a market where production is pretty sparse compared to the likes of LA and NY can be immensely challenging. While most people feel the pressure to move to Hollywood to "go where the work is", there are those who thrive where they are and set themselves as a niche service provider in the TV and commercial industry.

If you are currently considering whether you need to relocate to be successful, give a listen to Twain's story.

Topic Timecodes:

• ~11:30 Introduction to Twain
• ~12:20 What is Jamaica's client base like?
• ~13:58 Describing his workspace layout
• ~15:05 Twain's origin story: go to work or go to school?
• ~19:09 Getting a mentor early in your career
• ~20:33 How do you tell a good story?
• ~21:19 Twain's "Frame of Reference" site filled with valuable interviews with established editors (which is now defunct but you can still find individual articles like this)
• ~25:58 The value of networking and asking questions from other editors out there; great lessons learned from talking with the pros
• ~31:20 Have you ever felt the pressure to relocate and why did you decide to stay put?
• ~33:43 Big differences in work environment depending where you are geographically - Are there still deadlines in Jamaica?
• ~39:50 What in the hell is a toque?...

Links:

• Frame of Reference - Interview with Jamie Cobb
• Frame of Reference - Interview with Vashy Nedomansky
• Frame of Reference - Interview with Eddie Hamilton
• The Phantom Editor Offers to Help With the Han Solo Film Director's Cut
• Twain's work website ForPostProd.com 
• Watch Twain's work on Vimeo
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Nick and Josh reunite to bring you a conversation about Nick’s life-altering, career-changing decision… his move to the office life!

Nick recently began a contract that rips him out of his spare bedroom editing bay and thrusts him into the middle of an office in busy Toronto.

In this episode Nick and Josh catch up and recap Josh’s recent visit to meet Nick IRL. You’ll learn, as Josh did, that Canadians don’t know this one basic fact about the US. 

Topic Timecodes:

• ~12:00 Nick describing his journey into the office life
• ~19:30 Productivity in the office vs. in the home office
• ~25:00 Feeling the time crunch / What’s important in life / Parkinson’s Law
• ~31:00 Nick realizes he’s an entitled millennial :)
• ~39:00 Listener Chris’ question about the next steps to becoming a freelancer with a production company

Book Recommendations:

• Book Yourself Solid — Michael Port: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0470643471/?tag=shonbe-20
• Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America — Jeff Ryan: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1591845637/?tag=shonbe-20 

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  Song used in this episode was Islands by Kevin Hutchens. Get unlimited royalty-free stock music from Soundstripe: http://soundstripe.grsm.io/joshshort

In this episode we chat it up with Luke Guidici, screenwriter and generator of really strange story concepts.

He's worked in LA as an extra, grip, PA, camera operator, AD, producer, editor, falconer, writer and director. In our interview he lets loose with some steps to break you out of your funk and into writing stories NOW, plus some techniques that even some larger movies fall short on that you should focus on like "save the cat" and "show, don't tell" (for GOD'S sake, do the latter one).

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Links

• Official Luke Guidici website and stuff
• Follow Luke on Twitter, why dontcha?
• Fountain software for Screenwriters
• Read some scripts for pilot TV episodes

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Before you press play know that I am truly an unlucky fellow. Some problems arose during recording of this episode that may or may not have had to do with my new webcam that I bought...so that Josh could finally see me while we record.

Initially the episode was written off and scrapped, but...we decided to put it out as is.

I'll explain everything within the episode but it does reach a point where it abruptly ends, the rest was lost to the abyss. But what we did manage to record was still good stuff, including:

• Adobe CC 2017.1 updates (yes, we're late to the party with this)
• Projects we're currently working on
• Using a smartphone for interview shooting
• Facebook VR Spaces announcement
• Listener Q&A

So consider this a bonus episode of sorts. Enjoy!

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Links

• Film Editing Pro Trailer Series
• PremiereBro - What's New in Premiere Pro CC April 2017
• Premiere Pro CC - April 2017- New Features and the Essential Graphics Panel
• Edit Video Faster - All the Equipment You Need to Become a Freelancer
• Film Riot - Shoot a Film With an iPhone and FiLMiC Pro!

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Our guest today is none other than Norman Hollyn. Norman is a media expert. He is, of course, an editor as well as a professor of Cinematic Arts at USC and travels all around the world as an editing educator.

  Norman and Josh discuss Norman’s time teaching abroad, different editing styles across the globe, trying to get emotions out of your audience and much more.  

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Links

• The Lean Forward Moment
• http://normanhollyn.com
• Follow Norman on Twitter @Schnittman

  Song used in this episode was Bouncy Castle by Niko Xidas.   Get unlimited royalty-free stock music from Soundstripe: http://soundstripe.grsm.io/joshshort  Use the code COMMANDEDIT for 10% off!  

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Mae was bartending and raising a daughter in Atlanta when a producer approached her after seeing her music mashup projects that she continued to work on in her spare time.

Self-taught and self-propelled, after seeing a trailer for Zack Snyder's 300 she immediately vowed to become an editor.

She's a delightful and talented person to begin with but she's also a real-life example of what you should do if you're passionate about your work but have no doors open to you to the industry.

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Links

• Follow @EditorMae on Twitter
• GalsNGear from NAB 2017
• Mae's YouTube Channel

  Song used in this episode was Gatsby's Saloon by Matt Wigton,   Get unlimited royalty-free stock music from Soundstripe: http://soundstripe.grsm.io/joshshort  Use the code COMMANDEDIT for 10% off!  

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Josh and special guest David Colantuoni, Senior Director of Product Management at Avid, discuss the upcoming release of Media Composer | First, this year's Avid Connect Conference and what's new and on the horizon for Media Composer.

PS: Josh will be doing some training around Media Composer | First once it is released. Jump on his newsletter to find out more here: http://eepurl.com/bRtxZD

 

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Links

• Media Composer First
• Avid Customer Association
• Upcoming Avid Conferences (including Avid Connect 2018)

  Songs used in this episode were We Don't Stop by Matt Wigton and End of the Party by Jacob Walker.   Get unlimited royalty-free stock music from Soundstripe: http://soundstripe.grsm.io/joshshort  Use the code COMMANDEDIT for 10% off!  

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Get more of the podcast at http://www.CommandEditPodcast.com

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In this episode we grab some face time with fellow editor and podcaster Niel Guilarte. He runs the All Things Post podcast, featuring awesome interviews with the post-production elite. As well he has directed/edited The Messengers: A Podcast Documentary that is coming out very soon.

Keep posted (ugh...please forgive me, I didn't realize what I was typing until I read that back in my head) to The Messengers FB Page for more info on how to get your copy. Or head over to the Indiegogo page and contribute to get your copy when they're ready.

Links

• All Things Post Podcast
• The Messengers: A Podcast Documentary
• The Messengers FB Page
• All Things Post FB Group
• The Messengers Indiegogo Page (ordering info herein)

  Song used in this episode was Savior of the Nations Come by Brique a Braq.   Get royalty-free stock music from Soundstripe: http://soundstripe.grsm.io/joshshort  Use the code COMMANDEDIT for 10% off!  

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  Working on a 5-minute short? A 2-minute trailer? A 15-second commercial spot?   We've got ways you can use to approach that short cut in this episode. Even as short as this episode post!   Links

• Apple Mac Pro Redesign Plans
• The Unskippable Geico Ad
• Need Public Domain Footage?

  Song used in this episode was Codebreaker by Dotted Lined.   Get royalty-free stock music from Soundstripe: http://soundstripe.grsm.io/joshshort  Use the code COMMANDEDIT for 10% off!  

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