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Editing Craft #2: The In-Point
What the reorientation window tells you about where a shot really starts.
 • David Thomson
The DVD Extra Film School Is Dead. Long Live the YouTube Obscurantism.
In the 90s you could skip film school and watch DVD extras. Now YouTube offers the same education, hidden behind tutorials on how to fix your washing…
 • David Thomson
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Post-Production Workflows* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)
Production to delivery: Gantt charts, bin systems, why your DIT is unnecessary and other opinions nobody asked for.
 • David Thomson
The 8 Things You Can Actually Sell (None Of Them Are Your Film)
Your film is tap water. This is how to make a bottle and sell like Fiji.
 • David Thomson
26 File Formats, 5 Notarized Documents, and Proof You Didn't Steal Someone's Face
What you actually need to deliver to distributors, what distributors will pretend to need, and what you'll actually use.
 • David Thomson
Post-Production Tools I Swear By (and Swear At)
My end‑to‑end post‑production workflow for motion pictures, distilled into a software stack gear review.
 • David Thomson
Writing Tools I Swear By (and Swear At)
Years of trial and error distilled into one writing and pitching software stack.
 • David Thomson
Edit Craft #1: There Are Only Two Things You Can Do In Motion Picture Editing (And One Of Them Is Wrong)
Ideas about film editing craft. Starting at the beginning.
 • David Thomson
FilmStack Community Roster
A list of film people on SubStack (as curated by John Stahl)
 • David Thomson
Behind The Timeline: Battle Tested Film Editing Gear
A deep dive into the hardware and settings for more fun and efficient video editing.
 • David Thomson
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