Introduction
This is above all a practical book. It is not full of theory, for it is designed to introduce you to the equipment you will find in a professional film cutting room and the basic procedures carried out there. With this book in your pocket, when you are asked to do something you have never done before or are faced with one of the inevitable crises which occur regularly in even the best cutting rooms, you will not be on your own.
In revising the text for this reprint I have brought it up to date so it should continue to be useful in the years ahead. Cutting is a practical job and much must be learned in practice, but when you set foot in a cutting room for the first time you will find the basic advice given in these pages will get ...
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