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Gerald Lee Taylor, ACE News & Announcements BY JACK TUCKER, ACE Short Cut Comic BY JOHN VAN VLIET 18 34 Ninth Annual MPSE 12 and CAS Golf and Aspects of Editing Poker Tournament The Finality of Films ACE president Stephen BY EDGAR BURCKSEN, ACE Rivkin, ACE, serves as the fundraiser’s honorary chair 14 Tech Corner 20 What If? Adobe Tech Day The iPad Pro for Editing BY HARRY B. MILLER III, ACE 22 ACE Annual Meeting 16 Global Editing 24 Perspectives 40 Ellen Galvin The Netherlands 2017 Heritage Award BY PETER ALDERLIESTEN, NCE Honoree 48 26 Cuts We Love EditFest London The Wire BY ADRIAN PENNINGTON 30 features 30 34 36 A Series of Queen Sugar This Is Us Unfortunate Events Avril Beukes says let the story Brandi Bradburn, ACE, describes Stuart Bass, ACE, describes tell you how it needs to be edited fashioning the time-swapping the events from the editing suite BY SCOTT LEHANE relationship drama BY WALTER FERNANDEZ JR. 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They’re all vying to go programs offered for Emmy® nominations viral through linking their URLs on social as big mainstream offerings worthy of networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and the ‘Primetime’ label. While the Nielsen Flixster. The popularity and recurrence ratings still try to determine the popularity of these shows or webisodes and their of a show to give value to advertising ability to attract advertising for their revenue, there’s no real spectator number streaming website, are gradually generat- that is attached to streaming content, which ing enough revenue to hire professional is available via a subscription model. crews and thus eventually also submissions Now with services like Sling TV, local into award shows. stations and major networks also stream their As apprentices and assistant editors content. So where does one get information seem to become endangered species about popularity and consequently maybe when it comes to receiving their share of even ratings? Aggregate sites like Rotten expertise from experienced professionals, Tomatoes and Metacritic seem to be the it seems that social media is slowly hen I voted for the Primetime go-to spots to gauge popularity for films, becoming the incubator for budding Emmys® this year, it occurred to TV, cable and streaming shows, music and talent. The drop in price for equipment W me that the number of entries even video games. and the drop in obstacles to distribute seem to be increasing. When I was inducted Most award-giving entities like ACE one’s creative cinematic endeavor have into the Academy of Television Arts & and ATAS use their members to submit and democratized motion pictures to a certain Sciences (ATAS) in the early ‘90s, it was thereby vet the entries, so given the fact extent but they also hold the danger that truly the organization that covered the that obtaining their membership guarantees experience and creative traditions fall awards for television and more importantly a professional opinion on what gets nomi- by the wayside. ACE considers it its for the three major networks. Local stations nated and awarded, the quality of what responsibility to nurture innovation in did not really compete and cable was still appears on the ballot should be more or less editing but also to protect the creative too scattered to play a major role. The local there. But what are the criteria that ACE conquests we have established in the art cable providers were slowly expanding and other organizations use to determine and craft of editing. The Eddie Awards, their lineup with nationwide broadcasters what can be submitted? ACE has a Blue EditFest, Invisible Art/Visible Artists like ESPN, Nickelodeon and Discovery but Ribbon committee that convenes several and also our magazine and blogs on our when the premium cable channels like HBO times a year to adjust the entry conditions as website, americancinemaeditors.org, are and Showtime started their programming content production and distribution is still the obvious promoters of the art and craft the competition rapidly started to expand. changing every season. They submit their of editing. We do not hesitate to embrace The floodgates of original programming recommendations to the board of directors innovations while safeguarding traditions, really started to open up when stream- who then set the rules for entry. The ever- accomplishments and hard-fought creative ing entities like Netflix, Amazon and Hulu changing criteria mostly deal with show and hierarchic confrontations. opened up shop. length and genre categorization. –Edgar Burcksen, ACE 04 CINEMAEDITOR QTR 3 / 2017 / VOL 67 Photo by Peter Zakhary. Stop wasting time Find the best takes and clips faster with Media Composer Sorting through dozens of takes, hundreds of shots, or thousands of hours of footage, locating the best material can take literally hours, every day. But it doesn’t need to. 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