Editing On The Set (page 3)
Side Bar:A Word from the Pros
In the book Behind the Seen: How Walter Murch Edited Cold Mountain Using Apple's Final Cut Pro and What This Means for Cinema, Charles Koppelman had this to say about Walter Murch's experience while editing on the set near Rome, Italy, for the film The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999):
Murch may meet actors on the set or socially, but he intentionally keeps a certain distance. He will be living with the performers and their characters in his edit room for over a year, and he will wind up knowing their onscreen tics and habits perhaps better than they do. Being outside the typhoon of film production not only safeguards Murch from its gale-force winds of emotion, physical exertion and stress, but it gives him a degree of much-valued objectivity. (New Riders,…
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