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Command Edit
by Nick Montgomery + Josh Short
Being an editor usually means constantly being busy whether it's looking for work, finishing a job and looking for more work. And let's not forget continuing to level up your skills. Then somewhere in there you need to remember to have a life.This podcast is about life as a video editor, both at the desk and away from it. Here we discuss ways to improve both your career and maintain a healthy balance with your lifestyle.
Episodes
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Two Quarantined Editors and a Baby | Season 2 Premiere! Episode 001
Nick and Josh are back after a lengthy hiatus. They're here to discuss editing under quarantine, Korean zombie shows, and trying to find a silver lining in this whole quarantine mess.
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Sexy Valentine's Day in the Edit Bay : Episode 88
Love is in the air! No wait...what IS that smell?... Join us for a sultry and romantic Valentine's Day episode all about our favourite love seasons (ones that we've both watched on the big screen and worked with on our small screens).
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2019 New Season Trailer
Nick and Josh are on their way back for a new season of the Command+Edit Podcast. Stay tuned for brand new content including interviews with all new guests, reviews of shiny tools of our trade and LOTS MORE! New episodes coming at you in January 2019!
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All-Canadian Episode with Rhonda Thain : Episode 87
Special guest Rhonda Thain is back on the show to help us delve into: • How to fight burnout with 18+ hour work days on top of weekends and overtime • Keeping the creative juices flowing when battling exhaustion • Knowing when to turn down work for your own mental sanity • The Art and Ethics of...
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Finding Your Path from Student to Professional Editor with Grace Novak : Episode 86
Josh interviews Grace Novak, a film student and freelance video editor, about her journey into the professional ranks. They discuss her networking strategies, what she is taking away from internships, how to adjust to the professional world, setting up a great website and demo reel, and much…
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How to Hustle Some Side Cash : Episode 85
In this episode we talk about some ways to create some side coin in addition to your typical bread 'n butter. It's nice to pad the bank account with some supplementary income. Here are some ideas of how you can do that. Creating stock video/audio while simultaneously filming for another project?...
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Welcome to 2018 : Episode 84
Good-bye, 2017! It's been real. Hello, 2018! Please be gentle. Welcome back to another year of Command+Edit, listeners! Thanks for returning. Josh and I play it light for this episode to bring you up to speed on what went down over the holidays and what's to come in the coming weeks for the show....
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An Editor's Christmas Wishlist : Episode 83
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, listeners! The holidays are upon us which means only one thing: year-end deadlines are looming for our many projects and we are all doomed! ... I mean...we get to ask Santa for what shiny new toys we could use for next year! Whether being gifted to us by a…
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Take the Money and RUN! : Episode 82
In this episode Nick and Josh discuss the most important topic when it comes to freelance video editing...how to get paid! Topics covered include what software and services they use to invoice, how they accept payments, how long it takes to get paid and whether you need to have an LLC in order to...
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Premiere Pro Tips That'll Save You Hours : Episode 81
Nick and Josh are BACK! In this episode the guys give a ton of useful, time-saving Adobe Premiere Pro tips that you may never have heard before. Some tips that we cover: Quickly soloing/muting tracks Update colors of clips in bins onto timeline PDF Viewer Plugin Trim to Playhead New Search Bin...
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Small Business Tactics for Editors — An Interview with Editor Rachel Bastarache Bogan : Episode 80
Rachel Bastarache Bogan is a owner of Renegade Digital Post — a video editing company providing Hollywood-caliber services to filmmakers and content producers outside of Hollywood. In this interview, Nick and Josh find out Rachel’s strategies for working with new clients, how she finds clients…
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Interview with Twain Richardson : Episode 79
In this episode we bring our friend Twain Richardson on to guest as he tells us all about setting up a career right in the heart of Jamaica. Establishing oneself in a market where production is pretty sparse compared to the likes of LA and NY can be immensely challenging. While most people feel…
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The Office Life : Episode 78
Nick and Josh reunite to bring you a conversation about Nick’s life-altering, career-changing decision… his move to the office life! Nick recently began a contract that rips him out of his spare bedroom editing bay and thrusts him into the middle of an office in busy Toronto. In this episode Nick...
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Screenwriting tools with Luke Guidici : Episode 77
In this episode we chat it up with Luke Guidici, screenwriter and generator of really strange story concepts. He's worked in LA as an extra, grip, PA, camera operator, AD, producer, editor, falconer, writer and director. In our interview he lets loose with some steps to break you out of your funk...
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Mistakes Were Made! : Episode 76
Before you press play know that I am truly an unlucky fellow. Some problems arose during recording of this episode that may or may not have had to do with my new webcam that I bought...so that Josh could finally see me while we record. Initially the episode was written off and scrapped, but...we...
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Editing in Japan and Across the Globe with Norman Hollyn : Episode 75
Our guest today is none other than Norman Hollyn. Norman is a media expert. He is, of course, an editor as well as a professor of Cinematic Arts at USC and travels all around the world as an editing educator. Norman and Josh discuss Norman’s time teaching abroad, different editing styles across…
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An Interview with Mae Manning : Episode 74
Mae was bartending and raising a daughter in Atlanta when a producer approached her after seeing her music mashup projects that she continued to work on in her spare time. Self-taught and self-propelled, after seeing a trailer for Zack Snyder's 300 she immediately vowed to become an editor. She's…
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An Interview with David Colantuoni, Senior Director of Product Management at Avid : Episode 73
Josh and special guest David Colantuoni, Senior Director of Product Management at Avid, discuss the upcoming release of Media Composer | First, this year's Avid Connect Conference and what's new and on the horizon for Media Composer. PS: Josh will be doing some training around Media Composer |...
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An Interview with Niel Guilarte : Episode 72
This episode is brought to you by Studio Network Solutions and their EVO Shared Storage unit. Every EVO includes their easy to use media management software for organizing, tagging, and finding your media across all of your storage devices—even external, local, and cloud services. For more info...
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Tips for Cutting Short : Episode 71
Working on a 5-minute short? A 2-minute trailer? A 15-second commercial spot? We've got ways you can use to approach that short cut in this episode. Even as short as this episode post! Links Apple Mac Pro Redesign Plans The Unskippable Geico Ad Need Public Domain Footage? Song used in this…
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Networking Essentials for Video Editors with Rhonda Thain
Josh and special guest Rhonda discuss networking essentials for video editors. They talk about how to make contacts, what kind of contacts to make, how to keep relationships going, how to ask for work, what not to do when you’re networking and so much more. Also, Josh gives a special announcement...
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Movies for Every Video Editor : Episode 69
Last week we gave you some book suggestions to further improve your editing skills. But we know you are mostly visual learners so this week we'll give you some suggestions for movies that you should study, analyze and learn from. Tired of being limited to what you can afford when licensing a…
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Books for Every Video Editor : Episode 68
In this episode we'll give you some suggestions for books that every editor should read (at least once) in his/her lifetime that will push you a little further in the edit bay. But first, where do you go for your stock music? Tired of being limited to what you can afford when licensing a music...
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Beat Depression in the Edit Bay : Episode 67
Happy 30th Birthday, Josh! Join me in congratulating him for surviving on this earth for 30 straight years without incident. Tweet the show or leave a comment and I'll make sure he gets it. Send beer. Long work hours. No sunlight. Dwindling social life and home time. With only the occasional...
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Should You Charge for Exporting? : Episode 66
Hellooooooo? Can anyone hear us? Oh, wait. Someone’s there? Oh! It’s you! You, dear listener, are there! Did you forget about us? We know it’s been awhile. It’s been awhile for us too. We, Nick and Josh, haven’t caught up since before the holidays (yeah…that long ago) and in this episode we get...
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Interview with Travis Terrell and Micah Sannan from Soundstripe : Episode 65
"Play it, Sam" - Ilsa, Casablanca Finding the right music track for your project can be maddening, what with so many choices to pick from out there. And sometimes you can have trouble finding the words to describe what music track you're searching for. On top of that each music licence has its…
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Don't Be a Digital Hoarder : Episode 64
You often organize the clutter around your desk or office, but what about the e-clutter? All of those projects that need archiving, assets that need managing and all of those loose files on your computer that need a home (or the trash). We invited Rhonda Thain (assistant editor Brothers Take New...
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A Long Winded As F#@% Interview with Joe Vallero : Episode 63
Okay so this episode with Joe isn't long-winded as f#@% but his podcast sure is. I'm not kidding. It's called the Long-Winded As F#@% Podcast. Let me back it up a bit. Joe Vallero is an editor who made the move to LA and has the IMDB page to show it. In our interview with him here we ask him…
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How to be a SENSITIVE Editor : Episode 62
Welcome on back! You may notice that we took a bit of a hiatus there for a bit. So first of all thanks for continuing to subscribe and listen to us. What do you do when you're dealing with sensitive material at your work? Have you ever been concerned that you're working on could offend your...
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Roll the credits! Endcrawl with Pliny : Episode 61
Here's something you never think about until it's biting you in the tookus: creating your end credits. Every movie needs 'em, so does yours. So why leave them as the last step before completing your film and let them look like garbage? Enter Endcrawl, the online service that saves your time by...
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Talking About The Walking Dead Season 7 Premiere : Episode 60
SPOILER ALERT: If you are not caught up on The Walking Dead when you listen to this then you may be very upset by what we discuss. You have been warned. Anybody who's anybody was glued to TWD Season 7 premiere this week, so let's talk about the style of the show, how it's managed to survive 7...
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Back to School...Year 2 : Episode 59
Oh man...so the benefit of batch recording episodes is that you always have one to put out even when you fall behind in recording. The downside is whatever the topic is may not be as timely as it was when you first covered it. Thus, we present to you our Back to School episode that was originally...
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Talking About Stranger Things: Episode 58
Nick is tired because of a wrap party on his recent feature and Josh has been off of caffeine for a while...but it doesn't matter because we're so excited to talk about Stranger Things! ... Okay so we are a little late to the party with this one but it was recorded so long ago and Nick kind of...
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What happened to the summer blockbuster? : Episode 56
We have a BUNCH of stuff to share with you! Let's see how much we can cram into this episode. Throughout the week we collect links, useful tips and eyebrow-raising articles that we come across to discuss and now it's time to give them all to you. It's an AKS (All Kinds o' Shit) episode this week!...
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Rise of the Sufferfests - Interview with the editor Erik Swanson: Episode 57
We welcome editor Erik Swanson on the show, who recently completed work on his first feature length credit: Rise of the Sufferfests, a documentary that explores the rising trend of OCR (Obstacle Course Racing). You may have heard me talk about OCR occasionally as it's become an obsession of mine…
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Can You Be Fired For Being Sick?: Episode 55
Being sick and on the job... This started as a Twitter discussion from a question Scott Simmons posed earlier. There were many different opinions shared and it's not a simple yes/no question. So we're here to discuss it further, what are your rights as a freelancer and how should you balance out...
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Quitting the business! : Cmd+Edit 054
Welcome to Episode 54 of Command+Edit Podcast! We all inevitably reach a point in our careers when we start to really question if this industry is for you. Let's face it, it's not for everyone. This came about recently when a colorist/editor that we follow, Ben Brainerd, announced on Twitter that...
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How much does a video cost? : Cmd+Edit 053
We are often asked the question "How much does a video cost?" The short answer: It depends. As a comparison you could ask "How much does a house cost?" and then point out the many factors that affect the cost of a house: location, size, materials, how quickly it needs to be built, etc. You want…
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Codecs, Containers and Compression : Cmd+Edit 052
After the briefest of hiatuses we are BACK! Did you miss us? This episode Josh and Nick get into the topic of codecs: When to use which ones? How to optimize your encoding settings for faster exports/higher quality videos. How to establish delivery specs with clients early on And some other…
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Can A Monkey Learn To Edit? : Cmd+Edit 051
Can a monkey be taught to edit? Or at least can any HUMAN be taught to edit? This is the question we set out to answer in this week's episode. We live in a time where anyone could certainly have access to the gear and training necessary to start learning. And for some it's a prickly topic of...
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Interview with Zack Arnold from Fitness in Post : Cmd+Edit 050
Zack Arnold is a film and TV editor (Burn Notice, Empire) and the host of the Fitness in Post podcast (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2094093/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1). The podcast focuses on how to make healthier changes to your lifestyle while setting yourself up for success as an editor. It's a great...
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Keep Your BRAIN Happy and Sharp - Health Episode Part 2 : Cmd+Edit 049
The key is to leave work a little less crazy than when you walked in. Last week's episode dealt with keeping yourself healthy and fit while working those insane hours in the edit bay. This week we're getting into an ever more neglected area: keeping your mind sharp and healthy. Are you…
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Why are editors out of shape? Health Episode Part 1 : Cmd+Edit 048
This week we are talking taking care of our bodies and minds so that we can edit until we're the ripe old age of 95! You have career goals but do you have health goals? You'll need to take care of your body because it's the vehicle you'll use to get you to the finish line. We editors have a...
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Taking the leap into FREELANCING : Cmd+Edit 047
Josh has an announcement to make: he is taking the leap to being a freelance editor! On this podcast we've discussed the differences between freelance and contract/full-time positions, with Josh and Nick representing both sides of the coin. However now...all that is about to change. This decision...
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Todd Wolfe and the FroKnowsPhoto Video Editing Guide : Cmd+Edit 046
This episode comes with a BIG gift for you! We are joined by Todd Wolfe from CheeseSteak Media and FroKnowsPhoto. The latter of which just released the FroKnowsPhoto Video Editing Guide. This 16GB guide is jam-packed with the knowledge needed for beginners to get started with the basics and…
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BONUS EP The Benefits of a 7-Day Sugar Detox : Cmd+Edit 044.5
This here is a bonus episode for you to enjoy just for being awesome listeners! We invited Andrea back on to the show in response to listeners saying they were curious about the 7-Day Sugar Detox group that she runs each month. What does doing a sugar detox involve? Are there ways to prepare the...
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Breaking into TV Editing with Mark Hartzell : Cmd+Edit 045
Today's guest is Mark Hartzell (editor on True Blood, Agent Carter, Animal Kingdom) to talk about how he got into TV editing and what the difference is between TV editors and feature film editors. We talked about: What it's like transitioning from show-to-show often How does the workflow differ...
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Holistic healing and nutrition for editors : Cmd+Edit 044
Today's guest is Andrea McLaughlin from Llovara Holistic and I'm so glad to chat with her about what fuels us and keeps us creative and active throughout the day. I asked recently in the Command+Edit Facebook group how some of you rate your ability to make good food choices while on the job and...
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No, I Do Not Work in Porn : Cmd+Edit 043
So we may have had a brief hiatus there. Life gets in the way, work piles up, but we've still got episode that we want to give to you. (Besides you're probably still keeping busy paying attention to NAB announcements, right?) Thanks for waiting! Here is Episode 43 for you. In this episode we...
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The Editing of Daredevil Season 2 : Cmd+Edit 042
"You cross over to that side of the line, you don't get to come back from that. Not ever." In this episode we talk about Daredevil Season 2 on Netflix starring Charlie Cox returning as the title character. The show is edited by Michael N. Knue, Monty DeGraff, Jonathan Chibnall and Jo Francis.…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Being an editor usually means constantly being busy whether it's looking for work, finishing a job and looking for more work. And let's not forget continuing to level up your skills. Then somewhere in there you need to remember to have a life.This podcast is about life as a video editor, both at the desk and away from it. Here we discuss ways to improve both your career and maintain a healthy balance with your lifestyle.
HOSTED BY
Nick Montgomery + Josh Short
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