Hi Steve;
I love hearing things like this. CONGRATULATIONS!
warmly
Susan Perla
TV Producer
"Neighborhood Journal"
Cablevision Local Programming
SPERLA@cablevision.com
917-817-6835
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From: Steve Hullfish <steve4lists@veralith.com>
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com; FinalCutPro-L@yahoogroups.com;
FCP_X-L@yahoogroups.com; LAProducer@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, September 29, 2011 5:40:40 PM
Subject: [Avid-L2] A feature I cut opens tomorrow on 1,300 screens!
Hi friends,
Last year I edited a feature, along with the director and my friend Bill Ebel,
called "Courageous."
Presales for the film are already at $2million which is unusual for an
independent feature, to say the least. And we're the number two movie in
Fandango sales for the weekend. It opens on 1,300 screens Friday.
The movie was shot RED and cut in FCP7 from 130 hours of footage, which was
daunting.
I really loved the experience of cutting this film. It was my first dramatic
feature and it was definitely a challenge. I did not complete the edit. My job
was to get the initial edit cut for the first delivery to Sony back in October
of last year. That initial edit was 2.5 hours. It was then the director's job to
cut it down to the final 2 hour running time.
I'll be writing a story on the complete "camera to screen" post production
process including all of the ingest, conversion, organization, on-line conform,
color correction and filmout process for provideocoaltion.com, but I'd be happy
to answer any questions people have about the process. I also just presented to
the Chicago Final Cut Pro Users group about my experience last night.
I have to say that it's pretty cool to see my name on a movie poster and on the
big screen (before the roll even!) but I was really blessed to be part of this
film and all of the glory and credit needs to go to God. And a thank you to the
director, Alex Kendrick, who was a great editing partner and took a chance on an
editor with no track record in drama.
Please go see this movie this weekend. It has a little of everything, great
laugh-out-loud humor, multiple action sequences, car chases, gun battles,
heart-tugging drama...
Also, I shot two shots in the movie on my 5D after principle photography was
over. Can you guess which they were? (The difficulty level is increased on this
game because 5Ds shot some of the action sequence stuff, too, so there are maybe
20 5D shots in the movie.)
Steve Hullfish
contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"
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