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FCP Designer's Film Wins Award at Sundance
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Found this interesting. Dave Cerf was part of the team that helped develop Final Cut Pro X at the beginning.
You might have seen him talking about the magnetic timeline concept in Off The tracks.
Recently, he was one of the editors and the sound designer on 'Users' that has won a directing award at the Sundance Film Festival this year.
Read the full article that interviews Natalia Almada and Dave Cerf in Filmmaker Magazine.
“A Very Sculptural Process”: Editors Natalia Almada and Dave Cerf on Users
Here's a paragraph from the article
Cerf: My career has been a bit like a four-legged table: picture, sound, music, and the tools to manipulate those. I really get excited by projects that weigh these elements equally—not just in the final product but throughout the process. I really resonated with Walter Murch’s equal embrace of picture and sound and was lucky to work with him on a couple of films. I’m sure there are many examples, but I think about Hans Zimmer developing music early for Christopher Nolan’s films or Jóhann Jóhannsson’s work on Arrival, where music and sound design become indistinguishable. My other big influences actually come from the software side. After working on Final Cut Pro at Apple for a number of years, I started exploring radical timeline and media-editing interfaces with Robert Ochshorn and Bret Victor. For example, we explored systems where every clip has a physical representation and you simply edit on a table with additional interface elements projected on top. Or Robert’s sound effects explorer where you could navigate the 100,000 or so effects in my library in real time on a single screen. It’s sort of hard to explain in text.
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