Command Edit
Being an editor usually means constantly being busy whether it's looking for work, finishing a job and looking for more work. And let's not forget continuing to level up your skills. Then somewhere in there you need to remember to have a life. This podcast is about life as a video editor, both at the desk and away from it. Here we discuss ways to improve both your career and maintain a healthy balance with your lifestyle.
Episodes
Nick and Josh are back after a lengthy hiatus. They're here to discuss editing under quarantine, Korean zombie shows, and trying to find a silver lining in this whole quarantine mess.
Josh interviews Grace Novak, a film student and freelance video editor, about her journey into the professional ranks. They discuss her networking strategies, what she is taking away from internships, how to adjust to the professional world, setting up a great website and demo reel, and much more.
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In this episode we talk about some ways to create some side coin in addition to your typical bread 'n butter.
It's nice to pad the bank account with some supplementary income. Here are some ideas of how you can do that. Creating stock video/audio while simultaneously filming for another project? Utilizing a parallel skillset like photography or motion graphics? Time to think outside the box and bring in some extra cash on the side.
...Good-bye, 2017! It's been real.
Hello, 2018! Please be gentle.
Welcome back to another year of Command+Edit, listeners! Thanks for returning. Josh and I play it light for this episode to bring you up to speed on what went down over the holidays and what's to come in the coming weeks for the show.
This episode we get into:
- New living arrangements, including the complexities of living out of a van
- Josh's Command+Edit meetup in...
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, listeners!
The holidays are upon us which means only one thing: year-end deadlines are looming for our many projects and we are all doomed!
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I mean...we get to ask Santa for what shiny new toys we could use for next year!
Whether being gifted to us by a jolly fat man, our loved ones or just a little treat to ourselves for retaining our sanity this year, we all have some top requests on our lis...
In this episode Nick and Josh discuss the most important topic when it comes to freelance video editing...how to get paid!
Topics covered include what software and services they use to invoice, how they accept payments, how long it takes to get paid and whether you need to have an LLC in order to freelance.
Us...
Nick and Josh are BACK!
In this episode the guys give a ton of useful, time-saving Adobe Premiere Pro tips that you may never have heard before.
Some tips that we cover:
- Quickly soloing/muting tracks
- Update colors of clips in bins onto timeline
- PDF Viewer Plugin
- Trim to Playhead
- New Search Bin Query
- See how often a clip is used and where it’s used across a project
- Pancake Timeline Wacom Macro Hack
Rachel Bastarache Bogan is a owner of Renegade Digital Post — a video editing company providing Hollywood-caliber services to filmmakers and content producers outside of Hollywood. In this interview, Nick and Josh find out Rachel’s strategies for working with new clients, how she finds clients not only locally but across the globe, and much more.
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In this episode we bring our friend Twain Richardson on to guest as he tells us all about setting up a career right in the heart of Jamaica. Establishing oneself in a market where production is pretty sparse compared to the likes of LA and NY can be immensely challenging. While most people feel the pressure to move to Hollywood to "go where the work is", there are those who thrive where they...
Nick and Josh reunite to bring you a conversation about Nick’s life-altering, career-changing decision… his move to the office life!
Nick recently began a contract that rips him out of his spare bedroom editing bay and thrusts him into the middle of an office in busy Toronto.
In this episode we chat it up with Luke Guidici, screenwriter and generator of really strange story concepts.
He's worked in LA as an extra, grip, PA, camera operator, AD, producer, editor, falconer, writer and director. In our interview he lets loose with some steps to break you out of your funk and into writing stories NOW, plus some techniques that even some larger movies fall short on that you should focus on like "save the cat...
Before you press play know that I am truly an unlucky fellow. Some problems arose during recording of this episode that may or may not have had to do with my new webcam that I bought...so that Josh could finally see me while we record.
Initially the episode was written off and scrapped, but...we decided to put it out as is.
I'll explain everything within the episode but it does reach a point where it abruptly ends, the rest was los...
Our guest today is none other than Norman Hollyn. Norman is a media expert. He is, of course, an editor as well as a professor of Cinematic Arts at USC and travels all around the world as an editing educator.
This episode is brought to you b...
Mae was bartending and raising a daughter in Atlanta when a producer approached her after seeing her music mashup projects that she continued to work on in her spare time.
Self-taught and self-propelled, after seeing a trailer for Zack Snyder's 300 she immediately vowed to become an editor.
She's a delightful and talented person to begin with but she's also a real-life example of what you should do if you're passionate about your w...
Josh and special guest David Colantuoni, Senior Director of Product Management at Avid, discuss the upcoming release of Media Composer | First, this year's Avid Connect Conference and what's new and on the horizon for Media Composer.
PS: Josh will be doing some training around Media Composer | First once it is released. Jump on his newsletter to find out more here: http://eepurl.com/bRtxZD
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In this episode we grab some face time with fellow editor and podcaster Niel Gui...
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