Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul editor, Skip Macdonald ACE guest stars on this week's Rough Cut podcast to talk about cutting the Netflix original film, El Camino - A Breaking Bad Movie. Skip describes the unique aesthetic of the BB universe as well as...

• How the cinematography influences his editing
• Getting in the right "head" of the characters in the scene
• Making a cinematic tv show vs making a movie for tv
• Advice on making the jump from assistant editor to editor

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On this week's Rough Cut podcast, we begin our exploration of animation with Frozen 2 editor, Jeff Draheim ACE.  Jeff breaks down the process of editing an animated film and does a deep dive on...

• Editing storyboards and layouts to ready for production
• Selling the story with scratch tracks and temp fx
• Adjusting camera moves and sketches with AfterFX
• The “sweatbox” stage of post production
• Cutting back on overwriting and over explaining

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Editors Mike McCusker, ACE and Andrew Buckland open up their edit room to The Rough Cut to talk about their new film with director James Mangold, Ford v Ferrari.  Mike and Andrew get into:

• Setting up the stakes for the characters to have it pay off in the action
• The power of Pre-Viz
• Using surround sound to help with perspective in the race cars
• Fun with FluidMorph

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A special "Book Club" edition of The Rough Cut!  Editor, Paul Hirsch ACE shares stories from his new autobiography. Hear Paul tell us all about:

• Finding his future in a French movie theater
• Brian De Palma's filmmaking grammar
• Cutting the "prom scene" from Carrie
• Joining the Rebels to edit Star Wars
• Darth Vader's Camaro-inspired TIE fighter
• Saving Ferris
• Landing Planes, Trains & Automobiles

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Editor Tom Eagles checks in from New Zealand to talk about his work on JoJo Rabbit.  Tom tells us all about:

• Walking the line between comedy and drama
• The films that helped craft JoJo Rabbit
• Using ScriptSync and PhraseFind to manage improv
• Going from stereo to 3.1
• The long term impact of Swedish cinema...sort of

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Editor Laura Jennings checks in from the U.K. to discuss her new film, Disney's Maleficent - Mistress of Evil. Laura talks about her process on the VFX-heavy film and even indulges the audience with stories from the much-beloved Tom Cruise timewarp flick, Edge of Tomorrow! Laura tells us about...

• What it's like to have your release date moved up 7 months during post
• Balancing the comedy and drama to suit all ages
• Using musical cues to drive the tone of a scene
• Taking an indie approach to big-budget movies

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Double the taps and double the editors. Dirk Westervelt, ACE and Chris Patterson share editorial duties on the long-awaited sequel to 2009's undead comedy classic, Zombieland.  Dirk and Chris talk to us about getting the band back together for Zombieland: Double Tap.

Tune in to hear their thoughts on:

• Fun with audience test screenings
• Managing the cutting room
• Sharing scenes and comparing comedic beats
• Making up the rules of Zombieland as you go along

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In this episode of The Rough Cut, we talk with Gemini Man editor, Tim Squyres ACE about his latest movie with director Ang Lee. Tim doubles down on the tech talk and teaches us about high frame rate filmmaking, as well as…

• The trouble with human faces
• Lamberts. What’s a lambert?!
• How the best picture cut is sometimes made with sound
• Cutting at least two versions of a scene
• Saying “smart things” as an assistant

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Joker editor, Jeff Groth stars on this edition of the Rough Cut!  Jeff is in studio to talk about…

• The 70’s cinema influence on Joker
• Using Script-based editing in Avid to get the most out of every line
• Editing linearly on a non-linear editor
• Director Todd Phillips’ uncanny ability to predict his movie’s final runtime

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For our special IBC-edition of The Rough Cut, editor Chris Dickens and music editor Andy Patterson discuss their collaborative effort on the film, Rocketman.

Chris and Andy talk about:

• Re-recording Elton John classics for the film
• Using lyrics to support the film narrative
• The interchange between picture and music editing
• How to work yourself into the film

...and much, much more!