The Healthy Edit

This updated and revised new edition of The Healthy Edit provides aspiring and working editors with creative editing strategies they can employ to overcome common production problems, and offers the key to nursing a sick project back to health in the editing room. Whether it's a bad performance from an actor, a hole in the story or script, continuity or pacing issues, or a poorly-composed shot, every film or show we watch has its problems during production--and fixing these problems then becomes the job of the editor.

Accessibly written and utilizing an approach comparing film editing to doctoring, working editor and professor John Rosenberg offers a software-agnostic guide to best editing practices, offering solutions to everything from story and script inconsistencies to genre-specific structural issues. Interviews with well-established Hollywood editors throughout the book offer their advice and insight from problematic movies. Brought fully up-to-date to embrace the prominence of digital video since the first edition was published, Rosenberg offers new insights on high resolution footage, transitions, collaboration, music editing, and more.