How they edit "Where the Wild Things Are"

How they edit “Where the Wild Things Are”

Posted on November 7, 2009 in Editing | No Comments

J. Ott recounts a presentation by “Where the Wild Things Are” Editor Erik Jessen on the editing of Spike Jonze’s film of the classic childrens book.

…Last night I went to the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro Users Group (LAFCPUG) meeting to hear editor Eric Zumbrunnen and assistant editor Erik Jessen talk about the multi-year process of editing Where the Wild Things Are.

Some of the reasons for using Final Cut Pro, and not Avid, which Zumbrunnen had used since 1989, were the ability to work with 24bit sound, and the speed of importing Quicktimes. (Remember, they started in 2006 when it was still final cut 5.whatever.)

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