Editing time

[Shane Ross]

Anywhere from 4 weeks to one year…depending on what is involved, how much time you want to spend to tweak and make things tight.

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Walter Biscardi]

[RichWells] ”
Pleas settle an argument: How much time should we set aside to do the editing on a two hour feature film?”

Minimum 3 weeks if everything is in order and you know exactly what you’re going to cut and exactly what will be saved in exactly the right order.

Maximum, 2 years.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi

[Russell Lasson]

It’s probably not very helpful, but both Walter and Shane are right. It really depends on what’s important to your producer. It comes down do a balance of the delivery timeline and the creative timeline.

-Russ

[Walter Biscardi]

[Russell Lasson] ”

It’s probably not very helpful, but both Walter and Shane are right. It really depends on what’s important to your producer. It comes down do a balance of the delivery timeline and the creative timeline.”

And beyond that, it’s all about organization, pre-production, special effects, audio post, formats, frame rates, output format, tape logging, script notes, and the list goes on and on.

I get calls like this about once a month and there’s no way to answer it based on “How long will it take to edit a feature film?” That’s absolutely zero information for an editor. We would need all the details and a lot of times that is not even enough.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi

[Steven Gonzales]

Walter Murch spent 2 years editing and doing sound work for Apocalypse Now, and he spent six months re-editing and doing sound work for Apocalypse Now Redux.

So the absolute answer to your question is: it all depends.

If it’s a low budget movie, the shots probably don’t match well, shots are missing, and you have very few notes to go by, so give yourself lots of time, at least 12 weeks.

[Daryl K davis]

For the MOW’s I get about 7 weeks from starting the Assembly to Picture Lock. Then it goes into audio post, music scoring and HD on-line, color correcting, Vis FX etc. for about 5 to 6 weeks.

For full features I get anywhere from 12 to 20 weeks from starting the Assembly to Picture Lock. But there are more breaks in there for screenings by Executives, focus groups and such.

A lot depends on the approval process and a bunch of people mulling things over and asking for tweaks.

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DK Davis / Editor/ Post Super
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