The Film Editing Room Handbook: How to Tame the Chaos of the Editing Room, 4/e (Paperback)

The assistant film editor has many more responsibilities than simply helping to edit the picture. He or she must work with all the numerous members of the filmmaking team, juggle the demands of copious amounts of footage from various sources, keep notes during the shoot’s dailies screenings, process sound, oversee the creation of optical effects and integrate them in the editor’s workflow, and many more detail-oriented, simultaneous tasks that require skills on a technical and organizational level. Widely regarded as THE guide for helping you get through it all, Norman Hollyn, editing whiz and longtime instructor, is the ultimate master at making the process fun while making you a pro. In this fourth edition, he continues in the celebrated style of his previous editions with a hands-on approach, assuming the role of an assistant editor to describe the myriad workflows involved. Not only will you learn everything you need to know about how the editing process works, but you’ll gain the wisdom that normally only comes with on-the-job experience, putting you way ahead in your career and making you a better, more efficient editor.

In The Film Editing Room Handbook, you’ll learn:

• Everything the assistant editor needs to know on the job—from pre-production to the shoot, to editing and adding visual effects and sound, to the mix and color finishing.
  
• How to work in a variety of scenarios, whether it is a feature, television, commercial, musical, or web-based project.
  
• Best practices for organizing and optimizing your systems and files, useful to editors working on any nonlinear editing platform.
  
• How to find a job in this competitive market and put together an attractive résumé that proves you’ve got the skills to succeed.

Praise for The Film Editing Room Handbook, Fourth Edition

"The Film Editing Room Handbook systematically explains everything you need to know about the editing process, exactly as it exists in the making of major motion pictures. Complicated technical concepts are made totally clear and easily understandable in this absolutely essential book for all assistant editors, indie filmmakers, and those who aspire to break into the industry.”
– Mark Goldblatt, A.C.E., editor of The Terminator, Starship Troopers, and True Lies

“ This is a wonderful book that explains the complexities of the editing room assistant's job with clarity and wit.”
– Alan Heim, A.C.E, Oscar-winning editor and former president of American Cinema Editors

“ The Assistant Editor is the unsung hero of the editing room, tip-toeing around land mines to keep everything running smoothly in a job where all the important rules are unwritten. Until now. Norman Hollyn does an excellent job explaining the process of editing, the role of the assistant editor, and clearly labeling where all the booby traps are buried.”
– Larry Jordan, producer, director, editor, and Apple-certified trainer

“ This book is an excellent introduction to editing in the real world. Norman Hollyn not only tells you what is necessary, he tells you what is efficient. He knows how important that can be because he’s been there.”
– Burton J. Sears, film instructor at Savannah College of Art and Design, editor of Virtuosity, Jacob’s Ladder, and Henry and June

助理影片編輯師的責任遠不止於協助編輯影像。他或她必須與製片團隊的眾多成員合作，應對來自不同來源的大量素材，記錄拍攝期間的每日放映，處理音效，監督光學效果的創作並將其整合到編輯的工作流程中，以及許多需要在技術和組織層面上具備技能的細節導向、同時進行的任務。被廣泛認為是幫助您應對這一切的指南，《編輯室手冊》的作者諾曼·霍林是一位編輯高手和長期的教學者，他是使整個過程變得有趣並使您成為專業人士的終極大師。在這第四版中，他以前幾版廣受讚譽的風格繼續採用實踐方法，扮演助理編輯的角色，描述涉及的各種工作流程。您不僅將學到有關編輯過程的一切知識，還將獲得通常只有在實際工作經驗中才能獲得的智慧，使您在職業生涯中遙遙領先，成為一名更優秀、更高效的編輯。

在《編輯室手冊》中，您將學到：

- 助理編輯在工作中需要了解的一切，從前期製作到拍攝，再到編輯和添加視覺效果和音效，以及混音和色彩完成。
- 如何在各種場景中工作，無論是長片、電視、商業、音樂或基於網絡的項目。
- 組織和優化系統和文件的最佳實踐，對於在任何非線性編輯平台上工作的編輯人員都有用。
- 如何在這競爭激烈的市場中找到工作，並組織一份吸引人的簡歷，證明您具備成功所需的技能。

對於《編輯室手冊》第四版的讚譽：

《編輯室手冊》系統地解釋了關於編輯過程的一切，完全符合製作重要的大型電影的實際情況。這本對於所有助理編輯、獨立電影製片人以及渴望進入這個行業的人來說都是絕對必不可少的書籍，複雜的技術概念在這本書中變得清晰易懂。

- 馬克·戈德布拉特（Mark Goldblatt），A.C.E.，《終結者》（The Terminator）、《星艦戰將》（Starship Troopers）和《真實謊言》（True Lies）的編輯

這是一本精彩的書籍，以清晰和幽默的方式解釋了編輯室助理的工作的複雜性。

- 艾倫·海姆（Alan Heim），A.C.E.，奧斯卡獲獎編輯和美國電影編輯協會前主席

助理編輯是編輯室中不為人知的英雄，在這個工作中，他們在沒有明確規定的情況下，小心翼翼地維持一切運轉順利。直到現在。諾曼·霍林在解釋編輯過程、助理編輯的角色以及清楚標註所有隱患的位置方面做得非常出色。

- 拉里·喬丹（Larry Jordan），製片人、導演、編輯和蘋果認證培訓師

這本書是對現實世界中編輯的優秀介紹。諾曼·霍林不僅告訴您什麼是必要的，還告訴您什麼是高效的。他知道這一點有多重要，因為他曾經在那裡。

- 伯頓·J·西爾斯（Burton J. Sears），薩凡納藝術與設計學院的電影教師，《虛擬實境》（Virtuosity）、《天梯》（Jacob's Ladder）和《亨利與六月》（Henry and June）的編輯