Master & Commander: The Far Side Of The World

[John Lee]

Here is a collection of links about Master & Commander which we worked on in Mexico and Los Angeles:

http://www.avid.com/profiles/040308_masterAndCommander_composer.asp?featureID=7 46&marketID=12

http://www.avid.com/community/hollywood/features/leeSmith.asp

http://www.editorsguild.com/newsletter/NovDec03/novdec03_master_commander.html

-John Lee
1st Assistant Editor

[marks]

John,

This is all cool stuff.

Out of interest, how many hours of footage were you dealing with in the editing process? And of that what percentage was footage that you obviously were never going to use and so could be discarded immediately?

Thanks for the info,

marks

[John Lee]

Well, I forget how much footage we had. It must have been almost a million feet. There was no footage that we could immediately discard. It all had to be logged for future use. For example, there was 20,000 feet of waves with rain, snow, sunset, sunrise, storms etc that we had to know intimately & we used a lot of this material in the VFX shots. The storm scene used a lot of that footage. We assembled all of that in the AVID before handing over to VFX.