Here's a bit of old history. The original reason Murch sought a change is because he was working on "The Talented Mr. Ripley" in Italy and having Avid problems. I believe it was MediaShare related. Remember that beast? He was having trouble getting any help out of Avid (probably Avid Europe) and thought that if he - as someone who'd won the first Oscar for something cut on Media Composer - couldn't get help, that didn't bode well for any lesser known editors. At the urging of his assistant/associate editor, Sean Cullen, he started looking at FCP and that lead him to Digital Film Tree.
Remember that "Cold Mountain" was shot in Romania, I believe, and that's where the edit was started. Apple told me after the fact that they would have been incapable of supplying him on-site engineering support there, so he was on his own. So DFT provided some long-distance support.
Obviously it worked out well enough and all his other films to date have been cut on FCP "classic", with the exception of "Wolfman" and "Tomorrowland". That's because these were big studio pictures and the decision to cut on Avid had already been made or was logistically the appropriate choice.
Most of these recent films cut on FCP do not have the usual horde of assistants, like most Avid-based studio features. It's usually Murch and one assistant. That includes, in some cases, conforming master files to hand over for grading.
His most recent (and probably last) FCP-based project was "Particle Fever" - a lower budget documentary. There really was no post crew, as the director functioned as his assistant. A lot of the audio premix was done in FCP to streamline the process going into the final mix. Here are links to my blog posts where I've interviewed Murch numerous times. Note the timeline screen shots.
Reliving the Zoetrope tradition - Walter Murch and Tetro
Youth Without Youth
Walter Murch and the Editing of Jarhead
- Oliver
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