The Editing Tools Behind the Films at Sundance

The most interesting stat in this graph is the total dominance of DaVinci Resolve in the color grading, but none in editing despite BlackMagic Design’s emphasis on that particular feature in recent years.

I’m also surprised to see Unity coming in after After Effects for Animation / VR / VFX.

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In the Absence

Of all the Oscars nominations for 2020, this was the most unexpected, and surprising nomination. I cannot watch this in one seating without wiping away my tears.

When the passenger ferry MV Sewol sank off the coast of South Korea in 2014, over three hundred people lost their lives, most of them schoolchildren. Years later, the victims' families and survivors are still demanding justice from national authorities.

Editor Jinmo Yang discusses the unique methods of editing Parasite

If sometimes the acting or the timing was off, we resorted to getting different takes and stitching them together as if it’s one panning shot to perfect the timing and the rhythm and the acting. Director Bong and I frequently do this sort of “VFX stitch work” to perfect the timing as if it’s one shot – stitching various takes together as one shot.


The whole interview is fascinating if you’re a fan of Director Bong and his latest film, Parasite.