EDITING IS A PLEASURE

After so many years in the "business", and always relying on hired editors to cut my product, I have finally learned to edit myself. What fun!
Years ago, just to make a dissolve happen, we had to use a crayon to indicate the ins and the outs of an edit on film, and then wait to see it for about three days.
Now, with the drag of a cursor, we can actually design our own dissolves.
I look with wonder at young editors who get frustrated by the slowness of "rendering" the latest changes ... what takes them twelve seconds used to take hours.
Anyway, I don't profess to be good yet, but it is a start, and I urge all directors who haven't tried to make their own cuts, to start now.