This conversation between an Assistant Editor and Conform Editor at a facility covers picture editorial workflows for the Assistant Editor from the beginning of a project, how to stay organized for best results, and overall how to manage turnover to best suit your production. This is the How, What and When to deliver to a Digital Intermediate house for picture finishing, and how to follow up so everything on an edit timeline transfers directly to the colorist’s timeline.

If you're working currently as an Assistant Editor, or you aspire to work in an editorial department of any of the projects going through New York right now, these sessions will educate and inform you as to how to nail this crucial part of any editorial project.

Guest Speaker:

Alex Hartley - DI Finishing Artist at Nice Shoes

Alex is a DI Finishing Artist on the Film and Episodic team at Nice Shoes, a multifaceted creative studio and post production company with offices across the United States and Canada. He specializes in online conform, color pipeline management and various other finishing methodologies used in narrative and documentary projects produced for both streaming and theatrical deliveries. His recent credits include “The Lost Daughter”, “The Year of the Everlasting Storm”, “Couples Therapy”, and “Sirens”.

Max Berger - Freelance Film Editor

Max Berger is a professional freelance film editor, and has served as an assistant editor on several theatrically released motion pictures. He graduated from The University of Southern California in 2010 and has been a proud member of The Motion Pictures Editors Guild since 2017. Max is currently working as the 1st AE on Ari Aster's next film Disappointment Blvd.

Moderator:

Ben Baker - Business Development Partner at Next Gen Production

Ben has over 22 years of experience in VFX & Post in Australia, the UK and for the last 12 years, in the US. He has been a post producer and onset supervisor, a head of department at Framestore London, a VP at Vice and at HBO, always seems to be involved in bleeding-edge production technology projects and has the scars to prove it. He is a board member of the Post New York Alliance.

For the last 18 months Ben has focused specifically on Virtual Production, finishing the Epic Games Unreal Fellowship in March 2021, consulting for studios, networks and construction clients around Virtual Production through Next Gen Production, and is just completing Executive Producing the ETC’s latest R&D short, FATHEAD, currently in production on a volume stage in LA.