bort_sampson

Just wanted to say, loving the new season! Thanks for helping to make it happen!

I've heard many mixed feelings regarding the fact that by being on Netflix the episodes were no longer restricted to 22 minutes (the standard TV runtime).

As an editor myself I know that sometimes those restrictions can be a major pain - be it cutting great stuff to fit, or having to make worse stuff long enough.

What do you feel has been the end result for the show? Did you prefer having the freedom to make an episode as long as it needed to be, or do you wish there had been a little more restraint to keep things snappy and make sure only the best bits made the cut?

Really? I thought someone told me extracting marrow was like SUUUUUUPER painful.

You're an awesome person by the way!

edit: thanks for all the explanations. i learned a lot.

I'm only a few episodes in so the only one that was longer than usual was e01, and while I personally did feel it was a smidge long, i also understood that as the premiere it requires a little more time to get us settled.

Having said that, I'll never forget seeing the original uncut pilot and the few amazing jokes ("One minute a 20 dollar bill, the next, monopoly") that got cut to fit the TRT. Ever since then I wondered how many jokes had to be lost, not because of quality, but because of length restrictions.

It's nice to hear that the shows for the most part are now allowed to be the right length, rather than a dictated length.

You mean apart from Show Stealer Pro (one that made me laugh out loud by the way). I'll keep my eyes peeled.

Side bar: tried to install the trial for media composer on my laptop this weekend and caused it to kernel panic every time I attempted to run the installer. Guess I'm sticking with Final Cut for now...

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