Gael Chandler has edited comedies, dramas, documentaries, features, corporate videos, and promos, and cut on every type of medium: film, tape, and digital. Nominated twice for a Cable ACE award for editing a comedy series, she is a member of the Editors Peer Group of the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences and annually judges the Emmy and College TV awards. Her second book, Film Editing: Great Cuts Filmmakers and Movie Lovers Should Know, published in 2009, is filled with basic and complex editing concepts that make the invisible art of editing visible using 600 colorful frames from popular recent films. Her website is [...]

STAGE I SETTING UP AND ORGANIZING
Part One Starting your Project
Ch 1 Decisions, Decisions: Getting Started on the Right Path through Postproduction
Appendix A Project Checklist
Ch 2 Video, Digital, and Film Basics: Terms, Concepts, and Practices
Part Two Organizing for Editing
Ch 3 Setting up the Cutting Room: Workflows, Labeling Shots, and Other Cutting Room Common Tasks
Appendix B DIY Postproduction Schedule
Ch 4 Preparing Dailies
Appendix C Stage One: Budget Form for Dailies

STAGE II EDITING
Part One How to Approach the Footage
Ch 5 To Cut or not to Cut: Where to Cut and Why
Ch 6 Everyday Editing Challenges
Ch 7 From Animation to Reality: Editing Different Genres
Part Two Getting from First Cut to Final Cut
Ch 8 Making the Cuts: Editing on a Digital System
Ch 9 The Process: Getting from First Cut to Locked Cut
Appendix D Tape and Tapeless Show Continuity Form
Appendix E Film Show Continuity Form
Appendix F Stage Two: Budget Form for Editing

STAGE III FINISHING
Part One Sound, Music, and the Mix
Ch 10 Designing Sound and Music
Ch 11 Editing and Mixing Sound and Music
Appendix G ADR Cue Sheet
Appendix H Stage Three: Budget Form for Sound, Music, and the Mix
Part Two Finishing and Delivering
Ch 12 Finishing on Tape, File or the Web
Ch 13 Finishing on Film and via DI
Appendix I Stage Three: Budget Form for Finishing
How to Find an Editing Job
Resources
Glossary
Bibliography