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Prescriptions for Success
If, as the media philosopher Marshall McLuhan once observed, Gutenberg made everyone a reader and Xerox made everyone a publisher, does Premiere Pro make everyone an editor?1 Today, powerful software such as Adobe’s Premiere Pro and Avid Media Composer rule the filmmaking world. Anyone with a couple hundred dollars, a computer, and an idea can become an editor. Or can they?
If you put 100 monkeys in a room with an Avid, it is unlikely they would eventually edit the great American movie. Though anyone can do it, not everyone can do it well; following the rules and knowing how to operate the software are not enough. Despite the accessibility of equipment and user forums that address technical issues or describe such ...
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