Introduction to the Second Edition

A revolution has occurred since the first publication of The Healthy Edit: Creative Editing Techniques for Perfecting Your Movie. Coincidentally, it arrived at the same time that the Mayan calendar predicted the end of the world. But the calendar was misinterpreted—it wasn’t about the end of the world, it was about the end of film! And while students have wept in class at the announcement that they will not be shooting or editing on the perforated celluloid medium that launched the world’s most advanced and arguably most influential art form, the arrival of ultra high-definition file-based digital video heralds a new future for filmmaking and postproduction. Like any revolution worthy of its name, the digital ...

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