The latest summer blockbusters are wowing audiences worldwide, but the true magic is in the creative process behind the big screen. Below is a round-up of recent stories highlighting the work of our talented audio and video customers and their roles in bringing films like Inception, The Last Airbender, Toy Story 3 and Predators to a city near you...
Film & Video sat down with John Lee and Lee Smith, editors of Leonardo DiCaprio's Sci-Fi thriller Inception. The Q&A details the post workflow, which relied on Media Composer and Pro Tools systems in the creative process for Inception.
The July cover story in POST magazine looks at post production behind M. Night Shyamalan's film The Last Airbender. Oscar-winning Editor Conrad Buff (Titanic) talks about the editing and intense visual effects process of the 3D film.
POST also profiled Lee Unkrich, director of Toy Story 3. Unkrich talks about the evolution of Avid technology over the years, including the most recent chapter in the Toy Story family (edited with -- you guessed it, Media Composer).
- "There have been huge advances. The first Toy Story was 1995 and I've used the Avid [Media Composer] since way before that. I was the assistant editor on Silk Stalkings, the first network TV show to cut on Avid [Media Composer], so over the past two decades I've seen the full gamut of change in terms of nonlinear editing."-Lee Unkrich
Editors Guild Contributing Editor Mel Lambert interviewed the sound design team behind Robert Rodriquez' Predators. The team credits the use of Avid's solutions for enabling the unique production design. Mel Lambert went on to write a more detailed feature of the film's audio and sound design in Pro Sound News, profiling the work of sound editor Tim Rackozy.
- "Pro Tools and ICON are a powerful combination; we couldn't have done Predators on any other system."-Tim Rakoczy