A Practical Reality or Just a Reality?Fighter pilots and post production professionals have something in common, and they may not even be aware of it. Since the advent of the jet age, big thinkers and louder commentators have risen occasionally to declare that technology had rendered the primary function of fighter pilots, which is to say winning dogfights, cool but pointless and redundant nonetheless.
You may not see the connection, but ever since the first Avid editing systems were introduced, thinkers and commentators have said the same thing about post production houses.
History Channel addicts among you, will no doubt be quick to point out that those big thinkers have always been flat wrong about technology's impact on the efficacy of fighter pilots. This time however, they may be right about its effect on future of post production.
One only needs to note the recent fate of well known Chicago-area post houses like Superior Street and S2/Swell. Even though an industry-wide dispersion in ad revenue is partly to blame, technology is taking its toll as well.
Earlier this year the editor of an editor friend of mine asked me if I had any thoughts on the matter and not long afterward, I came across an interview featuring Director David Fincher. He casually mentioned that he'd done most of editing on his new film Zodiac on his laptop while loitering about in airports.
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