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Joe Walker - Editor

Team Deakins

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How to Cut a Film to Make It Longer

I was not building it into a long timeline. And just with the cards indicating the gaps. Do you work on the individual scenes in different files and then have another file that's the master cut that you throw it back in when you're ready? Yeah, we're not good enough scenes. I know that movies basically have the ideal length that it's going to run. There's usually an expectation that it cannot go over this. How much of a problem is that during the cutting? Me and Stephen Queen used to have a joke that it should never be longer than top or math.

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