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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.

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).

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!

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 Digital De-Aging • WTF is wrong with these movie remakes?! • Bending Reality with Reality-TV

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 more. Links Mentioned: Grace's website Grace's Twitter Grace's reading challenge Saves Together Twitter (Grace's podcast/web series) Editing for Others vs. Editing for Ourselves (a post Josh wrote on EVF) - 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 check out studionetworksolutions.com/commandedit. Song used in this episode was Standing On The Edge by Jaxon Hargrove. Get royalty-free stock music from Soundstripe! Use the code COMMANDEDIT for 10% off! Follow us on Twi

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? Utilizing a parallel skillset like photography or motion graphics? Time to think outside the box and bring in some extra cash on the side. Here's what we talk about in this episode: Newest Adobe features announced for CC ...and amaze-balls demo of Adobe Senseii Big updates to Frame IO and Wipster coming later this year Introduction of Soundstripe PRO and what changed with the regular Soundstripe license AVID Media Composer Troubleshooting Tips - 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 ser

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. This episode we get into: New living arrangements, including the complexities of living out of a van Josh's Command+Edit meetup in LA Top Episodes of 2018 Movie picks for you to check out What did Santa bring you this year?? and more! - 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 check out studionetworksolutions.com/commandedit. Song used in this episode was Fancy Pants on Soundstripe. Get royalty-free stock music from Soundstripe! Use the code COMMANDEDIT for 10% o

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 jolly fat man, our loved ones or just a little treat to ourselves for retaining our sanity this year, we all have some top requests on our list. What's on your list? More hard drives? Subscription to Adobe for another year (or five)? An editing assistant who works for coffee? Josh and I list off our top gift requests from Santa this year and had better see a few of these under the tree this year. Share with us your own Christmas wants via Twitter and we'll see it gets received by the Big Man himself. --- 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 yo

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 freelance.  Useful links: Nick's WWII Documentary - No Roses on a Sailor's Grave Freshbooks QuickBooks Online --- 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 check out studionetworksolutions.com/commandedit. Song used in this episode was 710 by Rian Ball on Soundstripe. Get royalty-free stock music from Soundstripe! Use the code COMMANDEDIT for 10% off! Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/CommandEdit Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Command

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 Query See how often a clip is used and where it’s used across a project Pancake Timeline Wacom Macro Hack Useful links: Premiere Pro Feature Request Form Heretics Gets Canadian Theatrical Release --- 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 check out studionetworksolutions.com/commandedit. Song used in this episode was Fountain of Youth by Stephen Keech on Soundstripe. Get royalty-free stock music from Soundstripe! Use the code COMMANDEDIT for 10% off! Follow us on

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 not only locally but across the globe, and much more. Useful links: Renegade Digital Post (Rachel's company) Rachel's Twitter: @rachelfinder How to Edit Videos That People Want to Watch (Rachel's book) Taipei in Motion Video (Rachel's viewing recommendation) Screenlight (online video review service) Getting Things Done (book) The 12-Week Year (book) --- This episode is brought to you by Studio Network Solutions and their EVO Shared Storage unit. Every E

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 the pressure to move to Hollywood to "go where the work is", there are those who thrive where they are and set themselves as a niche service provider in the TV and commercial industry. If you are currently considering whether you need to relocate to be successful, give a listen to Twain's story. Topic Timecodes: ~11:30 Introduction to Twain ~12:20 What is Jamaica's client base like? ~13:58 Describing his workspace layout ~15:05 Twain's origin story: go to work or go to school? ~19:09 Getting a mentor early in your career ~20:33 How do you tell a good story? ~21:19 Twain's "Frame of Reference" site filled with valuable interviews with established editors (which is now defunct but you can still find individual articles

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 and Josh catch up and recap Josh’s recent visit to meet Nick IRL. You’ll learn, as Josh did, that Canadians don’t know this one basic fact about the US.  Topic Timecodes: ~12:00 Nick describing his journey into the office life ~19:30 Productivity in the office vs. in the home office ~25:00 Feeling the time crunch / What’s important in life / Parkinson’s Law ~31:00 Nick realizes he’s an entitled millennial :) ~39:00 Listener Chris’ question about the next steps to becoming a freelancer with a production company Book Recommendations: Book Yourself Solid — Michael Port: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0470643471/?tag=shonbe-20 Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America — Jeff Ryan: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1591845637/?tag=

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 and into writing stories NOW, plus some techniques that even some larger movies fall short on that you should focus on like "save the cat" and "show, don't tell" (for GOD'S sake, do the latter one). --- 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 check out studionetworksolutions.com/commandedit.   Links Official Luke Guidici website and stuff Follow Luke on Twitter, why dontcha? Fountain software for Screenwriters Read some scripts for pilot TV episodes   Get unlimit

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 decided to put it out as is. I'll explain everything within the episode but it does reach a point where it abruptly ends, the rest was lost to the abyss. But what we did manage to record was still good stuff, including: Adobe CC 2017.1 updates (yes, we're late to the party with this) Projects we're currently working on Using a smartphone for interview shooting Facebook VR Spaces announcement Listener Q&A So consider this a bonus episode of sorts. Enjoy! --- 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, loca

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 the globe, trying to get emotions out of your audience and much more.   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 check out studionetworksolutions.com/commandedit.   Links The Lean Forward Moment http://normanhollyn.com Follow Norman on Twitter @Schnittman   Song used in this episode was Bouncy Castle by Niko Xidas.   Get unlimited royalty-free stock music from Soundstripe: http://soundstripe.grsm.io/joshshort  Use the code COMMANDEDIT for 10% off!   Follow us on

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 a delightful and talented person to begin with but she's also a real-life example of what you should do if you're passionate about your work but have no doors open to you to the industry. 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 check out studionetworksolutions.com/commandedit.   Links Follow @EditorMae on Twitter GalsNGear from NAB 2017 Mae's YouTube Channel   Song used in this episode was Gatsby's Saloon by Matt Wigton,   Get unlimited royalty-free stock music f

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 | First once it is released. Jump on his newsletter to find out more here: http://eepurl.com/bRtxZD   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 check out studionetworksolutions.com/commandedit.   Links Media Composer First Avid Customer Association Upcoming Avid Conferences (including Avid Connect 2018)   Songs used in this episode were We Don't Stop by Matt Wigton and End of the Party by Jacob Walker.   Get unlimited royalty-free stock music from Soundstripe: http://

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 check out studionetworksolutions.com/commandedit.   In this episode we grab some face time with fellow editor and podcaster Niel Guilarte. He runs the All Things Post podcast, featuring awesome interviews with the post-production elite. As well he has directed/edited The Messengers: A Podcast Documentary that is coming out very soon. Keep posted (ugh...please forgive me, I didn't realize what I was typing until I read that back in my head) to The Messengers FB Page for more info on how to get your copy. Or head over to the Indiegogo page and contribute to get your copy when they're ready. Links All Things Post Podcast The Messengers: A Podcast Documentary The Messengers FB Page All Things Post FB Group The Messengers

  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 episode was Codebreaker by Dotted Lined.   Get royalty-free stock music from Soundstripe: http://soundstripe.grsm.io/joshshort  Use the code COMMANDEDIT for 10% off!   Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/CommandEdit Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/CommandEdit/ Get more of the podcast at http://www.CommandEditPodcast.com