About this episode

The episode features a discussion with the editors of Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus about the challenges of editing the series.

Today on Art of the Cut, the three editors of Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus , Skip Macdonald, ACE, Chris McCaleb, ACE, and Joey Liew, discuss editing the series. Skip’s been on Art of the Cut before for El Camino . He’s an Emmy winner and ACE Eddie winner for Breaking Bad, and a multiple Emmy nominee for Breaking Bad, Fargo, and Better Call Saul. And has ACE Eddie nominations for Pluribus, Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul . Chris has multiple Emmy nominations and ACE Eddie nominations for Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul , and an ACE Eddie win for Better Call Saul . Joey is an ACE Eddie winner for Better Call Saul, and has also been an editor on Rabbit Hole . Our discussion today is about the tightrope walk of editing without temp score, how long can you be away from the main protagonist, and the value of sleeping on a new cut. If you'd like to read along with today's podcast and see the trailer and clips and images from the show, check out the BorisFX blog site: borisfx.com/blog/aotc

Topics covered

• editing
• television
• film
• interviews
• post-production
• Emmy winners

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