Film Editing

When the shooting stops, the cutting begins by Ralph Rosenblum
This is a fascinating book about film editing. Ralph Rosenblum explains very nicely what goes into editing a modern feature film with in-depth discussions of some of the movies he has worked on. He also goes into a lot of the history of the craft, as well as a lot of snippets of explanation of which kind of editing creates which kind of effect, which is very neat, because the editing is something that is very hard to notice while watching a movie. One of the most interesting tidbits was that after shooting a movie has 30-40 hrs of footage, which needs to be cut down to a 2 hour movie, which really makes clear how much of an impact the editor has.