Editing Videos is Easy! Here's How to Do It in Just 7 Simple Steps | No Film School

I know claiming that editing is a simple—nay—super duper easy peasy—task may incur a bit of flack from those who have spent the lion's share of their adult lives in front of a timeline. And to those curmudgeonly complainers I have two words: drama queens. To get a truly accurate picture of what life is like as an editor, just check out this video from Lixi Studios.

Okay—I'm a liar, but only a half liar. Though editing is most definitely not an easy undertaking, this video provides a pretty undeniable explanation of what a day in the life of an editor looks like: logging data for hours, obsessing over minor issues, and editing for so many consecutive days that you forget what the world looks like beyond the edges of your computer screen.

This video definitely got me reminiscing. (Does anyone else have an embarrassingly massive collection of miniDVs?) My very first foray into editing had me sitting at a desk cutting for twelve straight hours, fueled by a diet of burgers and donut holes. And that's nothing compared to the editing marathons I'd go on after that, where food was but a distant memory of something I might've put in my mouth days before. (Pro Tip: Your editing turns to shit after 48 straight hours of no sleep and no food. You're not hardcore. You're tired, hungry, and probably making bad decisions.)

Do you relate with this video? What's your most fond memory from your early days of editing? Let us know in the comments below!

Source: Lixi Studios

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What's the Hype With 'Interstellar' Revisiting Cinemas After a Decade in 70mm IMAX?

Here's Why You Need to Revisit 'Interstellar' in 70mm IMAX

Celebrate the love and hope at the center of Nolan's space epic in the format it was meant to be seen.

If we know anything about Christopher Nolan, he likes to go big. Nolan started with smaller-scale stories (as many of us do) with early noir adjacent works like Following, Memento, and Insomnia, then started going and staying big with his illusionist drama The Prestige. Since then, the scale has been various degrees of massive, with the biggest scope in his time-and-space sprawling epic, Interstellar.

While Interstellarmight not be everyone's favorite Nolan outing, there's no denying it's an impressive feat of filmmaking and his most emotional—if watching Matthew McConaughey's Cooper desperately try to reach his family through quantum space-time doesn't make you cry at least a little bit, what's going on, dude?

With Interstellar'sIMAX release, it's a great time to shed some tears in a public setting in one of the most prestigious film formats around. As we mentioned in our film gauge piece, Nolan loves shooting on film and utilizes 65mm intentionally to provoke a tone of massive scale. In that regard, Interstellar was made for 70mm IMAX. That goes without saying, dawg. That being said, other factors make Interstellar a perfect movie to revisit in theaters while you can.

Let's break down the release further below.

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