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Book Recommendation – Droid Makers
Just read Droid Makers, an in-depth history of Lucasfilm’s mission to take filmmaking digital. A pretty decent history of the Lucas/Copolla collaboration leads into the innovations in film editing and sound mixing with some great anecdotes along the way.
The last part of the book discusses the development of EditDroid (which was eventually sold to AVID). It is a pretty good history lesson in the history of desktop computers, film editing, sound mixing, special effects and is very well documented, and has some interesting sidebars giving filmographies for many of the people interviewed.
Interesting example:
I did not know that Apocalypse Now was edited on 3/4″ tape. When Copolla sent his master edit to the film lab, since they had no edge-code numbers synced with time-code, it took them a year to manually reconstruct the film one shot at a time.
Very enjoyable read.Mike Cohen
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