KelilaMatheny113

Fascinating insights; as an aamteur filmmaker myself, I know what you mean when the edit is as much a part of the final product as the shots themselves, perhaps even more so. The day when the editor had any great autonomous creative input is long gone, as is the requirement for specialised training. Still, I do believe that there are intricacies to the editing process that require a certain level of aptitude and keenness that can only really come from proper, focused experience  and we cannot disregard the fact that the whole concept of what makes a good edit comes from those very editors who probably don't need to be around all that much any more. Except maybe as a buffer between the director's manic vision and the audience's fragile comprehension, heh.