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Josh and special guest Rhonda discuss networking essentials for video editors. They talk about how to make contacts, what kind of contacts to make, how to keep relationships going, how to ask for work, what not to do when you’re networking and so much more.   Also, Josh gives a special announcement :)     Get royalty-free stock music from Soundstripe: http://soundstripe.grsm.io/joshshort  Use the code COMMANDEDIT for 10% off!  

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Last week we gave you some book suggestions to further improve your editing skills. But we know you are mostly visual learners so this week we'll give you some suggestions for movies that you should study, analyze and learn from.

Tired of being limited to what you can afford when licensing a music track? Soundstripe offers a full library of quality music that you pay with only a subscription. No more individual licensing costs! At $10/mth it pays itself off with your first track download. Get your account and use code COMMANDEDIT to get 10% off for the year (http://soundstripe.grsm.io/e/5Me).

Music track used in this episode: The West Lands, Matt Wigton

Unique Storytelling:

• Memento
• Pulp Fiction

Fast-Paced Sequences:

• Whiplash
• Snatch
• Fury Road
• Saving Private Ryan
• City of God

Poor Examples of Fast-Paced Cutting:

• Underworld: Blood Wars
• Taken 3

Slow-Paced Sequences (the Slow Burn effect):

• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• Once Upon a Time in the West
• The Godfather Part II

Strange/Traumatic Sequences:

• A Clockwork Orange
• Requiem for a Dream
• Pi

How to Edit Conversations/Dialogue:

• Jaws
• The Social Network

Our listeners suggested:

• Paterson - Denis Velinsky
• Side-by-Side - Patrick Boyd and Mark Kipling
• Requiem for a Dream - Justin Richardson
• Raging Bull, Lawrence of Arabia, Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - Liam Cairns
• JFK - Rhonda Thain
• Fight Club, The Innkeepers, Silent Hill - Vandrei Jaques

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In this episode we'll give you some suggestions for books that every editor should read (at least once) in his/her lifetime that will push you a little further in the edit bay.

But first, where do you go for your stock music? Tired of being limited to what you can afford when licensing a music track? Soundstripe is a sponsor of this episode and offers a full library of quality music that you pay with only a subscription. No more individual licensing costs! At $10/mth it pays itself off with your first track download. Get your account and use code COMMANDEDIT to get 10% off for the year (http://soundstripe.grsm.io/e/5Me).

Music track used in this episode: A New Day 2, Marshall Smith

Did you catch the Oscars? Did you cheer for Moonlight or cry over La La Land by the end? While we missed many of the noms this year, we go over some of the big wins from below the line.

Josh's Book Picks:

• The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
• The Avid Handbook
• Your NLE's manual

Nick's Book Picks:

• Rebel Without a Crew
• BFI Modern Classics Series (focus on Jaws, Thelma and Louise and The Matrix)
• Comics! For their exercise on framing, composition and storyboarding

Our listeners suggested:

• Grammar of the Film Language
• Behind the Seen: How Walter Murch Edited Cold Mountain Using Apple's Final Cut Pro
• In the Blink of an Eye by Walter Murch

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This episode is sponsored by Soundstripe, get access to a full library of quality music with unlimited licensed downloads all for just $10/month! As a Command+Edit listener get a special 10% discount when you use code COMMANDEDIT. http://soundstripe.grsm.io/e/5Me

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Happy 30th Birthday, Josh! Join me in congratulating him for surviving on this earth for 30 straight years without incident. Tweet the show or leave a comment and I'll make sure he gets it. Send beer.

Long work hours. No sunlight. Dwindling social life and home time. With only the occasional interaction with a human. It can get pretty lonely in the edit bay.

Today we talk about how depressing it can be working in post (whether solo at your home office or with a team in a studio) and how you can beat those post-pro blues with just a few changes to your day.

You know what else will make you weepy? Wipster's big changes to their pricing plan. The video review service made several editors the world over shout in frustration with their 400+% price hike to their plans. Find out how this affects you and what other options there are. (psst...and if you ask us, you should be using Screenlight anyways).

Remember us gushing about how awesome Soundstripe is? (for those who didn't, listen to Episode 65 with our interview with Travis and Micah from Soundstripe). Now you can sign up for an account with them AND help out the podcast at the same time!

Soundstripe is now a proud (we assume) sponsor of the Command+Edit Podcast! Use this link to get access to Soundstripe's music library and get unlimited tracks and licences for all of your projects. One size fits all, no more worrying about those expensive licences or how many tracks the budget can afford.

Other things we mention in this episode:

• Use a white noise generator to keep productive and focused at work. Try https://www.noisli.com/ or https://www.calm.com/

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Hellooooooo? Can anyone hear us?   Oh, wait. Someone’s there? Oh! It’s you! You, dear listener, are there! Did you forget about us?   We know it’s been awhile. It’s been awhile for us too. We, Nick and Josh, haven’t caught up since before the holidays (yeah…that long ago) and in this episode we get into all sorts of post production topics that have been going on in our lives recently.  

• We’ll dive into Nick’s film, one that’s been in “post hell,” that Nick has been resurrecting.
• Josh started a new comedy series and had to make a tough choice between starting it in Premiere or Media Composer.
• Nick applied to join a union, the DGC (Director's Guild of Canada)
• Josh got a kettle bell!
• Nick fell in love with a fitness challenge on fellow post-production podcast, Fitness in Post
• We talk about Black Mirror, Daredevil (again), Six and basically every TV show out there.

  We wrap up the episode talking about an important topic for any editor that charges by the hour.   Do you charge when the computer is working and you aren’t? Do you charge for importing/exporting/rendering/uploading/etc.? Our awesome Facebook group (link below!) gave us plenty of opinions and we each add our own. Don’t miss this part!

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"Play it, Sam" - Ilsa, Casablanca

Finding the right music track for your project can be maddening, what with so many choices to pick from out there. And sometimes you can have trouble finding the words to describe what music track you're searching for. On top of that each music licence has its own price tag so you may be limited by your budget (or your own wallet).

Today we are kicking it off with an interview with Travis Terrell and Micah Sannan from Soundstripe, a subscription-based music library that allows you endless uses of its music tracks for all of your projects till the end of time!

You can sign up for as little as $10/month and have full access to their ever-growing library of music

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You often organize the clutter around your desk or office, but what about the e-clutter? All of those projects that need archiving, assets that need managing and all of those loose files on your computer that need a home (or the trash).

We invited Rhonda Thain (assistant editor Brothers Take New Orleans, Tiny Home) to chat about being a digital hoarder at work, never throwing away any old projects or media files in the off chance that one day they will be needed.

If you've ever said to yourself "You never know!" while transferring that FCP7 project from 2003 onto a hard drive to add to the growing stack on your shelves, then this episode is for you.

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Okay so this episode with Joe isn't long-winded as f#@% but his podcast sure is.

I'm not kidding. It's called the Long-Winded As F#@% Podcast.

Let me back it up a bit. Joe Vallero is an editor who made the move to LA and has the IMDB page to show it. In our interview with him here we ask him about how making the transition to LA and finding work went for him, any tips he would have for other editors looking to wedge their foot in the proverbial door of big productions and what myths about working in LA hold water and which ones are just fluff.

His work experience is also pretty interesting if you take a look at his credits. He's edited featurettes for a number of larger productions (War of the Worlds, 300: Rise of an Empire, Argo, Hatchet). (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1207760/)

And, as mentioned, he has a podcast that he co-hosts called The Long-Winded As F#@% Podcast where he and co-host Nick review randomly-selected movies from the library of Netflix. (http://lwafpod.com/)

Tweet Joe on Twitter and tell him that you listened to his interview on Command+Edit. Go ahead. We'll wait... (https://twitter.com/lwafpod)

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Welcome on back! You may notice that we took a bit of a hiatus there for a bit. So first of all thanks for continuing to subscribe and listen to us.

What do you do when you're dealing with sensitive material at your work?

Have you ever been concerned that you're working on could offend your audience?

Should you play it safe and avoid offending your audience or is a little controversy going to benefit your project?

In this episode Josh and I talk about how to tread lightly when dealing with potentially volatile material in your work, and how it might affect any of your creative decisions.

Nick works on horror features so from his point of view a little bit of controversial material can sometimes equal "bad press". Shock value is highly sought after from horror directors when it comes to excessive gore, nudity or remarks. But how far is too far?

Josh having worked on a number of corporate/commercial videos that represent big businesses knows all too well the concern of representing a brand faithfully without sending any offensive images or messages.

This year has seen its share of controversy, especially in pop culture. Hollywood seems to offend people regularly with its advertising material:

• There was the fiery reaction to the adverstising of X-Men Apocalypse
• Snickers Super Bowl ad blasted for being anti-feminist/anti-transphobic
• Companies called out for sexist commercials
• 10 Surprisingly Sexist Movies That You Still Love to Watch
• Comedians mock car advertisements for blatant sexism with a simple parody
• And perhaps the BIGGEST lightning rod of controversy this year out of Hollywood, the Ghostbusters reboot. Honest Trailers, a parody YouTube channel that roasts big movies by recutting/redubbing their trailer, knew what hot water they were getting into when they took on the female-led reboot of a beloved movie...so they disabled comments right away. Check it out here.

Have you ever found yourself walking on thin ice when working on your edit? Share your stories with us so we know we're not just talking to ourselves here. We would really like to hear from you.

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Here's something you never think about until it's biting you in the tookus: creating your end credits.

Every movie needs 'em, so does yours. So why leave them as the last step before completing your film and let them look like garbage?

Enter Endcrawl, the online service that saves your time by making your credits for you.

And today we are talking with Pliny Eremic and Alan Grow, the co-founders of this service, about how it solves a problem so many films have struggled with in the past.

Credits are tedious, suck your time away and they are never...EVER...finished. There always seems to be one last change to make to them: a name missing, a mispelled credit, someone credited with the wrong job, someone to thank at the end...ad infinitum! Endcrawl solves the problem by allowing you easily make changes to your credit crawl and then it will send you a fresh, new render of it for you to drag 'n drop into your timeline.

Nick has experimented with the beta version of this service in his recent features and it IS as smooth an operation as it sounds.

It also fixes the technical issues that come with creating your own credits through Premiere, After Effects or Photoshop. Ever played your film on a big screen? Notice that ugly jitter or shudder as your credits scroll up? There's a reason for that. And Endcrawl can promise that it won't happen with yours.

And if that doesn't convince you...it's FREE to sign up and get started! Endcrawl is looking for beta users and will gladly let you jump in with your production and start making your crawl. (1K renders are free for you to preview it or as a placeholder, 2K renders belong to a pricing tier).

Check out our interview with these two gentlemen and sign up for Endcrawl for your production.

And Pliny would be pained if I didn't link to his article/rant 2k is not 2048x1152. Wait for me to trigger him on that one at the end of the episode.

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