There's an interesting interview with Michael Kahn here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjdOG-w0Zz4
Nice shot of the two keyboard set-up at around 30:00 :)
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Steve Pang
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On 12 Jun 2011, at 23:57, David Dodson wrote:
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> The full and complete story is that yes, Spielberg and Kahn do work on the Steenbeck. But they also always have Avid rooms parallel to them that are reproducing their work and keeping the project organized for all the subsidiary work that must necessarily go on on movies of this kind of complexity. But the actual cutting, the offline creative cutting happens on film.
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> I think the real takeaway is that if you're worth an estimated 3.0 billion dollars, you can pretty much cut any way you want.
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> David
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> On Jun 12, 2011, at 1:43 PM, Aidan O'Brien wrote:
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>> Yup.
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>> Though I though Minority Report was also cut on Avid due to the quantity of
>> visual effects.
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>> The idea of doing War of the Worlds on Film blows my mind.
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>> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Dennis Degan <DennyD1@verizon.net> wrote:
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>>> On Jun 12, 2011, at 10:51 AM, davidadodson@sbcglobal.net wrote:
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>>>> However, the very last film he shot, "War Horse", they cut on an
>>> Avid.
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>>> I query:
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>>> "War Horse" is now a film? The play got rave reviews on Broadway.
>>> I'd be interested to see how Spielberg handles the horse characters
>>> for the movie. In the Broadway play, the horses are full-sized
>>> armatures; in effect, puppets with performers inside. Of what I've
>>> seen (which is very little), the play is amazing.
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>>> Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
>>> NBC Today Show, New York
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