Until I learned from Walter Murch, I thought editing was mostly about cutting.

From him, I learned that it's primarily about media management if you're doing long form with high shooting ratios. The cutting is easy, and most NLEs can do it...so it doesn't matter all that much which one you use (from that standpoint).

Walter doesn't like any of the Media Managers that come with either FCP or Avid, so he has written his own custom Filemaker databases to keep track of his footage, and he uses a particular way of going through it with simultaneous input into the database.

This is changing how I edit, and it feels really backwards initially.

But I can already see that I'm making fewer edit decisions now, and I think I will end up working twice as fast eventually.

Walter opened my eyes to the creative way of dealing with edits.

Front and centre on my bookshelf, DIRECTLY above my editing LCDs in front of me, is a truly well thumbed,"In the Blink of an Eye" - Walter Murch.

I have also cobbled together a selection of his video/radio chats, writings and his conversations with Anthony Minghella (R.I.P).

Walter "Murch-Loved" in this household.

Grazie

Editors were making "invisible cuts" long before Bobbie O'Steen came along.