I remember I had to edit an 8mm short when I was in film school. Took me 12 hours to edit a 2 minutes scene. I actually loved it! (However I work as an editor).

this video is only 2:47 long but notice how it is adequately lit than most youtubers and vloggers videos today. damn this video of editing feels so cinematic

So glad that I have experience on operating a Steenbeck in my old school days.

You're preaching to the choir. I would also add that just because film is "dying" doesn't make the process of digital editing any less credible artistically. It's apples and oranges really. I really love the process of editing film but I also love digital. Each for different reasons. Also, I think that when something becomes less accesible, when it "dies," it becomes more precious and specialized (even more so than it was) which I view as a good thing actually.

This is really great! Thank you for sharing this!

This is probably one of my favorite things to do in the whole world. It's right up there with being in the darkroom. I'm not on a mission to put down the process at all. It takes forever but thats why we love it right?

Horror! I never want to go back to linear editing....but I loved it in ancient times....

What an amazing machine.

fantastic

Thank you for posting. It is essential to apply splicing tape to both sides of the film. In the case of the 16mm CIR splicer it does mean turning it around to do the other side. 35mm (and 70mm) is much easier to handle in many respects.

dang...going to edit on one of these tomorrow :P gonna use the same splicer too xD

People seem to forget that Hollywood studios want their crap movies in theaters as soon as possible, so it was inevitable that Movie Editing would go all Digital.

Do you know of a 16mm Steenbeck for rent in NYC? I have some footage I need to look at. Thank you.

Amen brother

I've actually read many anecdotes suggesting that experienced editors rarely wore gloves when cutting workprints - reversal original and such though you'd definitely want to.

@arbeeex

7 жыл бұрын

Back in the nineties in L A a friend told me about going to a fifty something conformer who was still cutting while he waited. She and her asst / friend were chatting about picking up young sailors down in San Diego on weekends. And they not only were not using gloves to handle the original 35 negative but were smoking cigarettes while cutting on the bench. When he mentioned the possibility of getting ash on the negative one of the old bags flicked ash off her cig and said watch this sonny.

I wasn't angry, it's just my game face.

But paying to get all that film scanned for Final Cut is really expensive. Since I'm not rich would it make sense to edit on something like this and then get the edited work scanned? Cuz getting a bunch of 16mm film scanned sure as hell ain't cheap and I would like to bring the cost down.

@AlexanderBalkam Amen

Is this your machine? I haven't touched one since film school in the early 90's. I wouldn't trade my NLE for anything, but these things really did put you in a good focused place once you got comfortable with them.

Where did you get it?

@paropa

10 жыл бұрын

I made this video in school (Emily Carr University) I'm pretty sure they sold or gave all these away by now. Maybe not but when I left Vancouver BC Technicolor processing had merged with Deluxe to the same facility. I think it's a matter of time before these become a really rare thing to learn in school. I'm glad I did.

lol the ending

@heroineworshipper And star wars and godfather and.... 90% of all the best movies

That's the "art" of editing though, yeah, sure it takes time but to get the "film" to cut seamlessly from one scene to the next and be just right was- "was" an art. An art that the editors of tomorrow no longer posses because of the digital age. What once took "forever", now takes a few short months if that. The true art and personal bond between the editor and "film" has slowly faded in a digital world.

I think Jackie Chan still edits his films this way.

it takes longer because film looks better and hard work is required.

It got Titanic made.

Why does the guy seem so angered?

Sure beats the shit out of Windows Movie Maker.

...And Windows Movie Maker punches Windows Live Movie Maker.

Take a deep breath. This was just for the joke of the video.

Yes. Corrct. But cutting on film will make you a better editor. Period.

Hey there - wondering if I could speak to you about using this footage in a documentary? please contact me on lmerichardson@gmail.com - thanks!