Assistant Editors

The Motion Picture Editors Guild has existed 75 years, a time period often associated with the span of a human life. It is no surprise then that the lives of …

Coffie’s fine tome should prove invaluable to any beginner first setting foot into the Avid editing workflow.

Midway through George Cukor’s Rich and Famous (1981), there is a scene that, all by itself, encapsulates the witty banter that was the director’s signature. The heroine of the film, …

Let’s hear it for the longtime assistant for enabling the editor to keep story as the primary focus. Assistant editors are the foundation of the editing room — organizing, interfacing …

Mitch Jacobson helps readers learn the same methods, and perhaps achieve the same results, as the masters of multi-cam.

Legendary movie producer Sam Goldwyn wrote the quote, opposite, in an article for The New York Times Magazine in 1949, just as television was emerging as a major mass medium.

I started editing quarter-inch reels of recorded audio sessions, then got bumped up to an assistant working with film on a Moviola.  I was surprised by how much I liked …

During a busy and productive career that spans 60 years in film and television, sound editor Don Hall––the 2011 recipient of the Editors Guild’s prestigious Fellowship and Service Award, to …

Through several TV projects and five feature films, the relationship between editor Dan Lebental, A.C.E., and director Jon Favreau has evolved to the point where Lebental views himself as Favreau’s …