Produced By - Insight #14 - Ed Morris: Edit Assistant’s Introduction to Editing Software
Episode Date: July 21, 2023Ed Morris, a freelance assistant editor located in London with experience working on TV dramas, short films, trailers, and more, is now working as the 2nd Assistant Editor on a brand-new 6-part BBC Dr...ama. When Ed was a college student, he had his very first editing experience while working on a group project. His enthusiasm persisted, and ever since, as he studied film at university and became skilled in various editing programmes, he has continued to hone his editing abilities. Just as Ed was about to graduate, the world pandemic struck, but he still managed to secure a job in a start-up where he was in charge of numerous production-related tasks. After that, he briefly worked as a runner in a post-production facility until he discovered his current position, where he sees himself progressing. To find out more about editing, learn what celebrity used to join Ed and his coworkers for lunch, and be motivated by Ed's opportunity to travel the world while working his very first job, listen to this episode. Connect with Ed: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edmorris99/ https://www.instagram.com/ed_morris__/?hl=en-gb https://m.imdb.com/name/nm14502881/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_2 Episode quotes: “There's always something in the back of your mind that you get drawn to.” “Enjoy yourself a bit because you won't get those years ever again.” “I would like to crack this assistant role and get a lot of technical skills under my belt before I make the jump.” “I would then edit from 7 till 3 in the morning.” Connect with the podcaster: https://tomasloucky.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomasloucky/ https://www.instagram.com/thisistommen/ https://twitter.com/TomasLoucky Follow the podcast: 🌐 Website: https://produced-by-podcast.com/ 🔗 Links: https://linktr.ee/produced_by 💬 Contact: https://produced-by-podcast.com/contact 📷 Instagram: https://instagram.com/produced_by_podcast 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT5LHnM6YCaeVzIr0WatOsw ✉️ Email: podcast.produced.by@gmail.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/produced-by/id1684669642 🎙️ About Produced By Podcast: Produced By brings you exciting stories of brave people who set out to build careers in competitive fields despite often challenging circumstances. Whether you are interested in creative industries, personal development or want to have some fun, enter the spotlight along with our guests and get inspired. Listen to people coming from all parts of the world, diverse fields of expertise and different levels of careers. So join us to follow their journeys, learn from life experience and embark on a great adventure. 🤩 If you enjoy listening to the podcast, please, leave a review on your podcast app, subscribe or share it with your friends. You can also send us a message and share any feedback, advice and tips for guests. 📭 Subscribe at https://produced-by-podcast.com/subscribe so that you don't miss out! #producedbypodcast #producedby #enterthespotlight Enjoy! Connect with Tomas:X: https://x.com/TomasLouckyStan: https://stan.store/TommenLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomasloucky/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisistommen/Unproduced:Newsletter: https://unproduced.substack.comYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@unproducednotesSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033Ddo8ibDlLYoaP7FFLIWMore:Links: https://linktr.ee/produced_byNewsletter: https://producednewsletter.substack.com/The Podcast Club: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/25420030/Tools & gear that support the show:Metricool: https://f.mtr.cool/HRJBZKRiverside: https://riverside.sjv.io/vDnDodFavikon: https://www.favikon.com?fpr=tommenRa Optics: https://ra-optics.myshopify.com/discount/TOMMEN?rfsn=8803777.591d19JamX: https://jamx.ai/podcasters-offer?ref_id=e02d48af-ef66-4e76-b804-c2e8d282a8bfSome links are affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. If you find them useful, using these links helps keep the podcast running. Thank you! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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And what software have you been using during Munich?
It was all Premiere Pro.
And then in the final year, I should learn Avid now because it's about time.
The avid media composer is the default.
I mean, 99% of the time is the default for film and TV.
Yeah, I think I heard that from someone, actually.
Yeah, in the UK and America specifically.
So, you know, there is the 1% that still cut film and TV on Adobe, you know, Premiere Pro, which is great.
But, yeah, so it was always using that up until the uni.
which is a great. I think this is a great beginner editing software to use. And then if you can make the jump to Abit, I feel like you should, you know, because it is a great bit of kit. So to learn that in third year. And we're using that on the TV show that we're working on now. So it was very handy to have that experience cut in with it before going to go into this job. Was Avidavit available at your lead?
Yeah, yeah, it was, but they didn't teach it. They offered the course. Yeah, 101 and 110 course they offered, but they didn't fundamentally teach it. But luckily, our third did teacher. I think.
because we all said we won't learn it, he kind of thought us a little bit of it, which is good.
But the default teacher that they would do was Premier.
Yeah.
And can you compare those two softwares, a Premiere Pro and have it.
I can, yeah.
I mean, ultimately, you know, depending on the editing software that you pick, depends on the project that you're working on,
then depending on what you need it for.
So, you know, Premier is really, really good at doing things quite quickly,
and it's really good for temp graphics.
You know, there's a lot of sound work that you can do,
and there's a lot of effects
and there's a lot of things
that you have at your disposable
to make,
especially your temp work
really, really, really good.
What is the temp work?
So, I mean,
depending on,
so, for instance,
in a film and TV perspective,
you would do kind of temp work
in the offline edit,
which you then provide
and turn over to a sound department.
Oh, they'd also do the finishing touches.
So, Bremio's really good at that
because you can do a lot of advanced stuff
in that software before turning over
to, you know,
picture or sound.
for instance. So you can get some really, really good looking stuff in Premiere. You know, with Avid,
you have to kind of transcode everything and you have to work with Avis native codex, which can be
quite annoying. And, you know, it's a lot harder to, not harder, but just more of workaround to kind of
get your project up and running. Whereas POMA is very much a drag and drop. Can you say it's easier?
It's easier to learn, Premier. I do think it, you know, Premiere is an easier software to learn.
And of course you have really easy access to after effects as well with Premiere
so you can collaborate between two of those softwares.
It would be good to a band.
It is more user-friendly and more beginner-friendly.
It kind of holds your hand a little bit as you're working.
And does it also differ based on what content you are working on?
If, for example, we're doing music videos or YouTube videos,
you would use rather Premiere Pro, whereas for working in the industry as you are,
you would go for a bit, or it doesn't really matter?
I mean, yeah, again, it's all kind of down to the editor's preference,
but the majority from what I've seen is film and TV,
they kind of stick to Avid Media Composer.
And then a lot of video-based work is done, you know, YouTube, Instagram Reels,
TikTok, a lot of that is done in premiere.
Yeah, but it's all down to the editor of the editor of,
have you seen everything everywhere all at once?
Yeah, yeah, sure.
Yeah, so the editor, Paul Rogers, he just won an Oscar for his editing on that film.
he used Premier Pro for that.
I didn't.
Yeah, so exactly, exactly.
You wouldn't really know it.
It's not really, and his
reasoning was that he was very proficient in that software.
And he thought that, you know,
in order to get the best story possible, he wanted to use that
to serve that story.
So, yeah, it's not, so it's all down to that preference.
But of course, there is a more, there is a shift
in terms of who uses what, so.
And what about the,
I know there is also
Da Vinci right and Final Cut.
Those are also quite a big editing software.
Yeah, yeah, correct.
Can you say something
about Doves?
Yeah, I think so.
Yeah, like you say, when I was at school,
we used Final Cut Pro and it was great
because it really easy to use.
You kind of just trek and drop out and think
and don't really worry about anything.
I don't know, it's obviously, you know,
saying that in hindsight it's bad,
but when you're 16, it's quite,
it's a very easy software to learn.
And obviously because it's native to Apple,
it runs very, very smoothly, of course,
on Apple products.
The Venture you resolve,
it's really, really powerful at the moment.
And, you know,
they've just launched an iPad version
so you can actually edit on an iPad, which is massive.
Especially on the new iPads, yeah, you can do a lot of good work on that.
But yeah, the video is great because also that's free.
There is obviously a paid version, but the free version is really, really good
because you can also, the kind of grading, you know, capabilities of that program,
they're huge.
So, yeah, instead of doing a workflow between a different editing software,
you could just use results to do a kind of an end-to-end products, you know, projects,
which is really helpful.
So I think if you can, you know, and a lot of these,
different softwares have advantages and disadvantages, you know.
So I think if you can use, if you know how to navigate between them,
you can use them, you know, just to your advantage.
It's hard to say one's better than the other.
Of course, people have their preferences and, you know,
fundamentally there are certain things which one's better at them.
The other isn't.
But if you can use all of them, then, you know,
I think it's going to just benefit you a lot more.
Can you use all of them?
Not, I mean, to a base level, right?
So, you know, I haven't touched final cuts since, yeah,
school but I'd sound pretty competent working around the other three yet.
And is there one you would recommend for beginners to start with?
I'd recommend Premiere Pro yeah. I mean. Is there a free version? I guess not.
Yeah, I don't think there is. Unfortunately, yeah, most things nowadays just tell you
subscription rise. I think there might be a free version. I think there's definitely a trial
for you use it in a trial like a seven-day trial.