Editing 'Severance'

[norway]

Apple has released some PR material about the editing process for Severance.

Biggest takeaways:

• They are using Avid, so it seems like Apple is not forcing FCP on all their Apple TV+ shows
• The marching band scene in the Season 2 finale involved 70 angles and takes

How the mind-splitting world of Severance comes together on Mac

How Geoff Richman, lead editor on the Apple Original, “Severance,” created the frenetic world of the hit show’s season two finale.

www.apple.com

 

[Alex H.]

Love this!

Yeah, AVID still has a pretty solid foothold in the industry, so I’m not surprised they cut Severance on that platform. The remote editing setup, though, is what really jumps out at me here.

And it’s all centrally-located on a Mac Mini. Maybe I should have saved a little money instead of getting a Mac Studio…

 

[NorBro]

One notion about Apple since 2020 with the M series is you can get any base model and feel pretty good in post for most cutting (def not heavy 3D/particles/lighting/etc).

If I was editing more, I'd probably upgrade every year for $1000-$1500 instead of dropping $4K+ or so into one longer-term piece.

Either would be fine, but new toys are always better.

For the first 20 years of the 2000s, I never really felt like I was getting my money's worth for computer upgrades. I mean, I/you did - but where we are now is unbelievable.

After getting my first Compaq around 9 or 10, I still remember being so frustrated with how slow basic computing was (and that was really only about a decade into the modern Windows GUI OS).

 

[Alex H.]

One notion about Apple since 2020 with the M series is you can get any base model and feel pretty good in post for most cutting (def not heavy 3D/particles/lighting/etc).

If I was editing more, I'd probably upgrade every year for $1000-$1500 instead of dropping $4K+ or so into one longer-term piece.

Either would be fine, but new toys are always better.

Yeah, I mostly work in Pro Tools, but also use FCPX and am about to jump into Resolve. I was on a 2017 iMac Retina that was still chugging along fairly well, but was starting to show its age. I definitely have a history of running my Macs until I absolutely have to replace them (when OS and apps absolutely have to be updated beyond the processor's capacity).

MacBook Titanium G4 > iMac G5 > Mac Mini > iMac Retina 5K > Mac Studio.

For the first 20 years of the 2000s, I never really felt like I was getting my money's worth for computer upgrades. I mean, I/you did - but where we are now is unbelievable.

After getting my first Compaq around 9 or 10, I still remember being so frustrated with how slow basic computing was (and that was really only about a decade into the modern Windows GUI OS).

When we got our first Commodore 64...