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Behind the Seen: How Walter Murch Edited Cold Mountain Using Apple's Final Cut Pro and What This Means for Cinema

The first volume to reveal the post-production process edited entirely in Final Cut Pro! A rare inside glimpse at the creative process. Includes anecdotes from the director, edit staff, & producers; photos, emails, & journal entries from Murch; & behind-the-scenes insights. Accounts from Apple's Final Cut Pro team This book tells the story of that endeavor: the decision to use Final Cut Pro, the relationship between the technology& art of movie-making, how Final Cut Pro was set up & configured for Cold Mountain, how the software's use affected the work flow, and its implications for the future of filmmaking. Told through photos, journal entries, email musings, & 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, & thoughts on storytelling as he shapes Cold Mountain under the intense pressures of completing a major studio film. Cold Mountain, the recent film based on the Charles Frazier novel, is a love story set during the American Civil War. Behind the Seen, being the story of how accomplished film editor Walter Murch. The difference being that Behind the Seen has to do with how Murch used Final Cut Pro, a software package that runs on any modern Macintosh and costs less than $1000, to edit Cold Mountain and thereby incite debate among professional film editors. Can such a mass-market product, accessible to anyone with a camcorder and a FireWire cable, be a serious tool for professionals? Murch proved that it can. Behind the Seen deals with the technical accomplishment of using Final Cut Pro to assemble a feature film, but more importantly explains to its readers how shooting and editing work — and how the personalities involved in Cold Mountain worked together.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 360
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780735714267
  • Genres
  • film
  • Release date
  • 2004