Behind the Seen: : How Walter Murch Edited Cold Mountain Using Apple’s Final Cut Pro and What This Means for Cinema / Koppelman, Charles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koppelman, Charles, author.

Series:

Voices that matter

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Editing--Data processing.

Motion pictures.

Digital cinematography.

Final cut (Electronic resource).

Cold Mountain (Motion picture).

Murch, Walter, 1943-.

Murch, Walter.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 pages)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

How Walter Murch edited Cold Mountain using Apple's Final Cut Pro and what this means for cinema

Place of Publication:

New Riders, 2004.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The first volume to reveal the post-production process of a major motion picture ( Cold Mountain ) edited entirely in Final Cut Pro! Offers a rare inside glimpse at the creative process of one of cinema's giants: threetime Academy Award-winning editor Walter Murch. Includes anecdotes from the director, edit staff, and producers; photos, emails, and journal entries from Murch; and behind-the-scenes insights. Accounts from Apple's Final Cut Pro team about what they think about the future of it in feature films. As the first software-only desktop nonlinear editing system, Final Cut Pro sat the film industry on its ear when it debuted back in 1999. Now it's shaking things up again as editor Walter Murch, director Anthony Minghella, and a long list of Hollywood heavy-hitters are proving that this under-$1,000 software can (and should) be used to edit a multi-million dollar motion picture! This book tells the story of that endeavor: the decision to use Final Cut Pro, the relationship between the technology and art (and craft) of movie-making, how Final Cut Pro was set up and configured for Cold Mountain, how the software's use affected the work flow, and its implications for the future of filmmaking. More than anything, however, this is Murch's own story of what seemed to many a crazy endeavor-- told through photos, journal entries, email musings, and anecdotes that give readers an inside view of what the film editor does and how this particular film progressed through post-production. The book includes, in his own words, Murch's vision, approach, and thoughts on storytelling as he shapes Cold Mountain under the intense pressures of completing a major studio film. With Academy Awards for his work on Apocalypse Now and The English Patient , sound and film editor Walter Murch is one of the few universally acknowledged editing masters in cinema. Along with George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, he is one of the founding members of the Northern California cinema community. Author Charles Koppelman has been writing screenplays and directing video and film since the early 1980s, including the independent feature film, Dumbarton Bridge, award-winning documentaries, and commercials. "An exploration inside the editorial engine-room of a major feature film - the first book of its kind ever and sure to remain the best. Charles Koppelman chronicles Walter Murch's astonishing high-wire trapeze act as he works his way through the first large-scale implementation ...

Contents:

The last preview

Running on the fault line

Kicking the tires

Give me a reason not to

Keys to the kingdom

Scenes I can cut!

The flow of it

The hemidemisemiquaver

Another Rubicon crossed

Time and endless patience

Bullets, explosions, music, people

Finding the film you have.

Notes:

Online resource; Title from title page (viewed October 21, 2004)

Includes index.

OCLC:

903511524