65 episodes

The revolutionary online editing course that teaches you the art of editing.

Once Upon a Timeline Inside The Edit

    • TV & Film
    • 4.9 • 61 Ratings

The revolutionary online editing course that teaches you the art of editing.

    S3S5. In-House vs Freelance Editing

    S3S5. In-House vs Freelance Editing

    It’s one of the age-old questions an editor asks themselves at some point in their career… should I go in-house at a production company, broadcaster, or studio. Or should I throw caution to the wind and jump into a freelance lifestyle?

    • 36 min
    S4E4. The Art of Pivoting

    S4E4. The Art of Pivoting

    What happens when we spend hours cutting a sequence, we think we’ve done a great job but then the client comes in and doesn’t like it at all? An every day occurrence in a pro edit suite.

    • 33 min
    S4E3. Creative Actions vs Creative Reactions

    S4E3. Creative Actions vs Creative Reactions

    On this week’s show I’ll be talking about a mindset that is hugely important in long form. Creative actions and the creative reactions that happen on our timeline as a result.

    • 32 min
    S4E2. Scene Modelling: Understanding Creative Archetypes

    S4E2. Scene Modelling: Understanding Creative Archetypes

    On this week’s show I’ll be talking about sequence archetypes/scene modelling. The benefits we gain as editors in analysing and categorising as many different scenes and sequences in other people’s work as possible, is incredibly useful. It widens our abilities and makes us better editors.

    • 35 min
    S4E1. The Checklist: An Essential Creative Inventory

    S4E1. The Checklist: An Essential Creative Inventory

    And we’re back. Did you miss us? We missed you! We’re kicking off Season Four of Once Upon a Timeline with an in depth discussion around the checks and balances of  sequence quality. There’s so many creative skills we need to apply to any one scene or sequence and it can be daunting trying to remember them all before we hand a cut over to our client for approval.

    • 38 min
    S3E17. The Director's Perspective: In Conversation with Suemay Oram Part 2

    S3E17. The Director's Perspective: In Conversation with Suemay Oram Part 2

    We can learn an enormous amount about editing from listening to editors. But we can also learn an enormous amount from listening to the creative people we work with every single day, the people who employ us... directors.

    • 43 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
61 Ratings

61 Ratings

Noodles7250 ,

If you’re interested in editing, you need this brilliant podcast

Paddy Bird is a brilliant teacher. His Inside the edit course and bootcamps are vital resources for anyone interested in editing. This podcast is a continuation of that. If you’re interested in editing, this podcast will teach you a lot. I love it.

Dan 2049 ,

Best editing podcast out there

This is a sensational podcast. Thank you, Paddy, for your erudite, thoughtful, and fascinating way of presenting editing. I teach film and so am not directly involved with cutting on a regular basis but I find your insight invaluable in how I discuss and encourage my students to think about editing. I am also working my way through your recommendations and have most recently watched JFK and Adam Curtis’s Century of the Self series. The Great Beauty and Fog of War are next on my list. Thanks again.

H Aldai ,

What should an editor look for at first in a shot?

In this episode, we learned about the characters and how we can get perfect shots from the beginning of the editing before even starting our editing on the timeline.

Because we are most of the time filmmakers, camera operators and directors, inside the edit — is the best place to gain your editing techniques from.

Thank you for sharing the awesome 👍 work.

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