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EDITORS GUILD MAGAZINE
January-February 2008 : Volume 29, Number 1

On the Cover: Director Francis Ford Coppola, left, and editor/sound editor/re-recording mixer Walter Murch at the Rome Film Festival in October 2007 Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images

SPECIAL SECTION:

Tribute to Dede Allen, ACE:
2008 Service and Fellowship Award Recipient

DEDE'S DEVOTEES
Some Words from Her Admirers

The Motion Picture Editors Guild's Fellowship and Service Award

FEATURES

My Liar: A Novel Approach to Editing
by Rachel Cline

Oscar Caliber: Which Films Are?
by Michael Kunkes

COVER STORY: Fog City Mavericks:
Francis Ford Coppola & Walter Murch
by Bill Desowitz

The Changing Jobs of Recordists
by Michael Kunkes

TECH TIPS

Like a Surgeon
Operating with Avid's Open-Standard Codec
by Patrick Ready

The Delivery Man
Compressor 3 Can Handle All Media Types
by Doug Luberts

NEWS

Three Independent Spirits
Jay Rabinowitz, James Thomas and Christopher Tellefsen on Editing
by Dan Ochiva photos by John Clifford

It's an HD World After All
New York Conference Reveals Reality of Today's Productions
by Michael Grotticelli photos by John Clifford

Editorializing
ACE Panel Talks Shop at HD Expo
story and photos by Bill Stetz

DEPARTMENTS

EDITOR'S NOTE - Tomm Carroll

GETTING ORGANIZED - Tris Carpenter

SHORT ENDS

PASSAGES

NEW SIGNATORIES

POST-PROD PUZZLER - Tiare Widmaier and Myles Mellor

COLUMNS

UNION MADE
A Sound Career Decision
by Thomas J. Huth, CAS

THIS YEAR IN FILM HISTORY
Prêt-à-PORTER
by Kevin Lewis

CUT/PRINT
The Unheard Magic
review by Ray Zone

LABOR MATTERS
Picket Fences
Writers Walk, Then Talk
compiled by Jeff Burman

TAIL POP
Alex Cox's REPO MAN (1984)
by Lawrence Maddox

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