Manhattan Edit Workshop Moves to Flatiron; New State-of-the-Art Training Center Opens on 23rd Street

New York, New York – September 30 2013 – Manhattan Edit Workshop (MEWShop - http://mewshop.com/), the cutting-edge authorized digital training destination for post-production and content creators, has completed renovations and begun hosting classes in the company’s ultra-modern training and event space. The contemporary 2500-square foot location features two high-tech training rooms equipped with the very latest in media production and post-production technology as well as a spacious artist-in-residence space custom-tailored for MEW’s signature Six Week Intensive Course and monthly tech talks.

Jim Hession from Karen Schmeer Editing Fellowship Raves about 70's Panel

Scary. Soiled. Scandalous. And basically shitty. This is how history not-so fondly remembers New York City of the 1970s. Drug use was rampant all across town; employment was not. Crime rates soared; faith in America’s greatest city plummeted. Bryant Park was referred to as “Needle Park,” and the 6 Train was appropriately termed “Mugger’s Express,” a place where armed bandits were known to have jumped turnstiles in a quest to rob hapless straphangers for free. Sorry kids, “Dave and Busters” and “TGI Fridays” were most definitely not the names of wholesome corporate establishments residing in Times Square, although such monikers likely echo those of the pimps and prostitutes (respectively) who once worked its corners. And when the financially devastated city teetered on bankruptcy in 1975, the nation’s president famously told New York to “drop dead.”

Mocha - Planar Tracking & Visual Effects Tools from Imagineer Systems

Motion tracking and rotoscoping are foundation skills for visual effects, finishing and motion design. Whether it is replacing screens on phones, adding digital makeup, set extensions, sky replacements or simply cutting animated roto-masks; editors and artists are expected to handle almost any task.

Editors, Sound Designers & VFX Artists Share Their Secrets at MEW’s 6/8 Event - ProductionHUB

Read ProductionHUB's review of Sight, Sound & Story 2013!

MEW TECH TALK: : Asset Management - Making Life and Work in Production and Post Better

Nathan Wadding, Director of Post Production for Mind Over Media, will discuss how implementing an asset management and tiered storage infrastructure helped Mind Over Media not only better manage projects and media, but allowed them to scale their business by offering clients new and far more efficient media services. Nathan will share his experience building a tapeless infrastructure and the pain points of using and migrating from a legacy SAN infrastructure to an agile tapeless infrastructure. He will cover everything from the internal changes they undertook to take full advantage of new technology and workflows  to the bottom-line benefits for account directors, producers, editors, assistant editors, and engineers.

Sight, Sound & Story Debuts in New York June 8th!

Read about Manhattan Edit Workshop's 2013 Sight, Sound & Story Event!

Come See MEWShop at DV EXPO EAST - Booth #36 on June 19th!

Visit Us at Digital Video Expo East!

We're exhibiting at DV Expo East, June 19, 2013 at the Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 W. 18th Street, NYC.  You're invited to be our guest at the Expo with a free exhibit hall pass (a $25 value). Register below for free!

Stephen Rotter: Do What The Film Needs - From The Guild

Red Rob Feld's article on Manhattan Edit Workshop and Bobbie O'Steen's "Inside the Cutting Room" event featuring editor Stephen Rotter.

SCRATCH Lab: Unleashing the Power of Advanced Dailies at MEWShop

Manhattan Edit Workshop, the authorized digital training destination, in cooperation with ASSIMILATE, INC., will present a FREE demo on the most comprehensive production dailies tool for digital workflows, SCRATCH Lab: Unleashing the Power of Advanced Dailies.

Inside The Cutting Room With Bobbie O'Steen Featuring Stephen Rotter

Read about our upcoming Inside the Cutting Room event featuring editor Stephen Rotter.

Andrew Weisblum: The Versatile Editor - From The Guild

Read Dan Ochiva's article on our Inside the Cutting Room event featuring Editor Andrew Weisblum, ACE!

An Introduction to Smoke 2013 - FREE DEMO!

Smoke 2013 is the revolutionary all-in-one non-linear video editing and effects tool for the Mac, connecting editing and visual effects like never before. By integrating familiar editing tools and node-based compositing directly into the timeline, Smoke is revolutionizing video post-production. Bring in content and projects from Final Cut, Avid, Premiere, AfterEffects, and others – Smoke can work with virtually all popular software and hardware video formats. Save time from complex multi-application workflows by having all the tools you need at your fingertips in one product, so you can focus more time and attention on being creative. 

Post Script: 'Moonrise Kingdom,' 'Black Swan' editor Andrew Weisblum

Manhattan Edit Workshop launched its “Inside the Cutting Room” series last month with a sit down with editor Andrew Weisblum, ACE.  Hosted by author/film historian Bobbie O’Steen, the two-hour event looked at Weisblum’s career as a film editor and his relationships with two very different directors: Wes Anderson (The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom) and Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler, Black Swan). 

Cutting for Story: Editor Andrew Weisblum in Conversation - Filmmaker Magazine

Thelma Schoonmaker and Martin Scorsese. Walter Murch and Francis Ford Coppola. Tim Squyres and Ang Lee. For many an editor, these longtime creative partnerships represent the most alluring and elusive of career ideals. For editor Andrew Weisblum, that ideal is well on the way to becoming a reality — twice over. Since 2007, Weisblum has cut all of both Wes Anderson’s and Darren Aronofsky’s feature films, ranging in style from the witty charm of Fantastic Mr. Fox to the demented psychodrama of Black Swan (for which Weisblum was Oscar nominated). Kicking off this year’s Manhattan Edit Workshop series “Inside the Cutting Room With Bobbie O’Steen” with an evening of clips and conversation last week, Weisblum reflected on his collaborations with these dramatically different directors. It was a study in opposites that proved again and again that it’s story, not style, that makes the editor.