Full-length movies and documentaries

With Final Cut Pro and other editing apps, the postproduction of full-length movies no longer necessarily needs the hordes of staff that were required in the days of film. Now, the majority of the postproduction stages can be handled by one single editor, using the techniques described in this section. That is not to say that all full-length movies are edited by just one person. It’s the exact opposite in reality. It’s more about splitting editing into logical sections. As you have seen in earlier chapters, editing assistants are tasked with assembling media into organized categories, and then junior editors are entrusted to add the media to an initial assembly. This is where the senior editor will become involved with producing the rough cut, which in turn becomes the picture-locked version that is then sent out to specialists for external color correction and audio improvement.

As stated, all of this could have been done by a...