There were times on Evan where we were playing around with those and say, “Hey how much can we do?” And I think I got 20 cameras running but Lightworks can also lock up an edit as well if I want to work that way. But one thing that Lightworks has always done which I have not encountered with other systems is that I can take and not just grab shots to lock them up in a multi-cam bin and run it as a say a four camera or six camera or whatever works. It’s so easy to sync up footage and lock them up for multi-cam now. And still to this day even more so, very powerful. I was an assistant editor, visual effects editor on the movie Nutty Professor, we were shooting a dinner scene with Eddie Murphy shooting four cameras, locking up the four cameras and using multi-cam features in Lightworks back then, it was terrific. I knew of a lot of TV shows even sitcoms that were using Lightworks because the multi-cam was so powerful in Lightworks back then. It was a very powerful tool or at least they liked it for multi-camera editing because the company did tons of live multi-camera productions.īack in those days was multi-cam a strength over say Avid back in those days? I remember it was it a post-house here in Nashville called Music City Digital and they had maybe six installs of them. Scott S: I think about my first exposure Lightworks is probably 1999, 2000 as an assistant editor on the old school Lightworks where you had “rooms” and you had the cool controller, which you can still get that controller, but it was a much different Lightworks and what we have now. So I was on Avid on those pictures Zookeeper, Here comes the Boom, Mall Cop 2. So it was all Avid all the time over there. When I started cutting some pictures for Kevin James at Sony, Sony owned all their systems so that wasn’t an option. I have been on Avid and as I said Bruce and Evan I cut those on Lightworks. You’re out there in Hollywood and you’ve done real stuff and you have your background as far as the NLE relating to our conversation is you’ve obviously cut a lot on Avid Media Composer over the years I think that’s a safe assumption to say. Scott S: So you are, and I am going to air quotes here, a real editor cutting movies and television… a big time editor. Scott H: That was that was a fun one that was a big, one. Scott S: I was actually at the Evan Almighty premiere because I don’t know if you remember this is like an aside, that the band Switchfoot did a concert at the at the premiere or some version of the premiere and I came out from Nashville because the guy was working for shot the live multi-cam of the show and we went back to Nashville and cleaned up the line cut and that went out somewhere for viewing and that was my one and only Hollywood movie premiere was Evan Almighty. Shadyac Accepted that he produced, and Evan Almighty cut those on Lightworks. It was my choice, I decided to edit Bruce and other films for Mr. I worked with Tom as an assistant editor for years and then when the opportunity came Tom asked me to cut Bruce so I was thrilled about that. My first film I edited was Bruce Almighty with Jim Carrey. I was an assistant editor in features for another eight years after leaving Law and Order and then I started editing. Scott H: Yes, I was actually on the mothership at the original Law and Order. I started out as an assistant editor on Law and Order many years ago. Scott Hill: My background depends on how far back you want to go. But give me a bit about your background and where you come from as far as this crazy editing world we live in. And you yourself are a light works user and that’s why we are chatting with you today beyond having fine editing skills. Scott Simmons: Thank you Scott for joining me on this chat about editing alternatives. This is Lightworks interface setup as Flexible. I also conducted an interview about Sony Magix Vegas Pro if that one is of interest as well. Scott talks at length about why he chooses Lightworks when he edits. One of those NLEs in the discussion was Lightworks and to prepare for the class I interviewed editor Scott Hill, editor of both Bruce Almighty and Evan Almighty to name a few of the features he has cut. I hope this in-depth interview with feature film editors Scott Hill will be of interest.Īt NAB 2017 I taught a class called NLE Independence – Editing Beyond Adobe, Apple and Avid. Though there is both a Mac and PC version, I don’t think a lot of editors know much about Lightworks. Lightworks is a powerful NLE that has been around for many years and has edited at lot of major Hollywood features at the hands of some talented editors.
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