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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dykstrav" data-source="post: 4792212" data-attributes="member: 40522">In all fairness to editors... Many times, it's not their fault. It's usually the director or the DP. They don't want to pre-visualize or storyboard, they just want to show up the day of on the set and figure out how to shoot it when the production is spending multiple thousands of dollars per hour. Either that, or they want to achieve that look.It's pretty common for an editor to not even be hired until about half the footage is in the can, then get handed a melange of clips and a copy of the script and be expected to make magic. "We'll fix it in editing," pretty much equates to "we're not going to deal with this problem right now." To top it all off, some directors are known for getting upset when a scene can only be cut one particular way because they didn't get enough coverage when they were shooting the scene. But that's what you get when you shoot something without a shot list...Since most of the project's budget is spent during principal photography, editing can be one of those things where they're really trying to shave dollars in the eleventh hour. So not only will the project not have enough footage, but they'll hire an editor for only a certain number of hours and make sure that they understand that there's not enough money to reshoot something.Sometimes, it is the editor's fault. But not always. I've seen enough editors get handed a pile of footage with the expectation of a miracle that I have respect for them.</blockquote>

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