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About The Film Editor - Janelle Ashley Nielson
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Welcome to my site! This page is a little synopsis about what influenced and inspired me to pursue film editing as a career. My love for films, TV and computers came in my early childhood years. At the tender age of 5, my babysitter took me to see "Tommy" on its premiere night at the local theater. This was the first "big people" film that I had ever seen, and I will never forget Tina Turner's head of snakes and the giant pinballs glimmering in the sun. I became obsessed with knowing what was outside of the frame/screen that I couldn't see, and how the images were showing up on the screen. I wanted to know everything about how movies were made, and I wanted to make them. After that, going to the movies was always a treat and I always saved up my allowance to catch at least one movie a week. I think I saw E.T. a total of 16 times in the theater the summer it came out. As far as television was concerned, I was a latch key kid and watched a LOT of TV after school. Ricardo Montalban, Jaclyn Smith, Carol Brady, Rod Serling; these were my dutiful babysitters. I was fascinated by film, and would sit with my View-Master and try to figure out how each frame was designed and how it created the story on those little tiny reels. My love for computers began after playing Pong and other VERY simple games on my dad's Texas Instruments Computer, and after taking computer programming classes in summer school. I also was an avid reader and wrote hundreds of my own plays and stories during elementary school, and I was determined to become the next famous child writer. Creativity was a daily activity for me.
I decided that I wanted to be a Film Editor in high school, when I stumbled upon my mother's old 8mm video projector and several of our old family films. I took the reels, "spliced" them together, made a music mix cassette tape to match the action, and presented it to my family for Christmas. The following year, I was babysitting for a sound mixer who happened to have a tape-to-tape editing system in his house, and I was allowed to practice editing while I was there. After a few hours cutting on the system, I knew that I was meant for this career. I then pursued a degree in Film Studies at the University of California, Irvine, where I learned the basics of film language; story, production and theory.
After college, I moved to Los Angeles where I have since been working in the Film Industry. Visit my resume page for my credits. People always ask, "How can you sit in a dark room all alone for hours on end, watching the same footage over and over again?" Well, my answer to that is that I LOVE Film Editing. To be able to create moments between two people that may have never existed during filming, to bring about emotion or laughter with the right music, to tell a story that can only be told with the eyes, these are all things that I love doing on a daily basis. I sometimes catch myself with a huge grin on my face or getting teary eyed while cutting a scene, and hours can pass before I realize what time it is.
If you want to know more about me, then you're just gonna have to get to know me! ;) To find out how I became an Editor and how I got into the editing "biz", click here .
For a list of questions and answers sent to Janelle about film editing, visit
Janelle Ashley Nielson is a Film Editor in the Motion Picture and Television Industry.
FILM EDITOR
HOLLY'S WORLD (Series, Seasons One and Two)• Editor (AVID)
Prometheus Entertainment/E! Entertainment Television, Exec. Prod. Kevin Burns
KENDRA (Series, Seasons One, Two and Three)• Editor (AVID) click for episode listingPrometheus Entertainment/E! Entertainment Television, Exec. Prod. Kevin Burns
THE GIRLS NEXT DOOR (Series, Seasons Four, Five and Six)• Editor (AVID) click for episode listing
Prometheus Entertainment/Alta Loma Entertainment/E! Entertainment Television, Exec. Prod. Kevin Burns
BRIDGET'S SEXIEST BEACHES (Series, Seasons One)• Editor (AVID)Prometheus Entertainment/Travel Channel, Exec. Prod. Kevin Burns
FOOD PARADISE (Series, Seasons One)• Editor (AVID)Prometheus Entertainment/Travel Channel, Exec. Prod. Kevin Burns
DOG WHISPERER with Cesar Millan **Emmy nominated twice for Outstanding Reality Program - Primetime(Series, Seasons Two, Three and Four) • Editor (AVID) click for segment listing
MPH Entertainment/National Geographic Channel, Series Prod. SueAnn Fincke
TRADING SPOUSES: MEET YOUR NEW MOMMY (Series, Season Two) • Editor (AVID)
Rocket Science Laboratories/FOX, Exec. Prod. Jean-Michel Michenaud
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA:The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe (Feature) • Animatics Editor (AVID/Film)Walden Media/Walt Disney Pictures, Dir. Andrew Adamson
REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES (Feature) • Additional Editor (AVID/Film)
Real Women Have Curves, Inc./HBO Films, Dir. Patricia Cardoso
KARROLL'S CHRISTMAS (MOW) • Additional Editor (AVID) Fox Television/A&E, Dir. Dennis Dugan
THE LONE RANGER (MOW & Pilot) • Additional Editor (AVID) Turner Television/TNT, Dir. Jack Bender
ON THE BEAT (Series) • Editor (AVID) BET Network, Exec. Prod. John Goldhammer
COMIC VIEW (Series) • Editor (AVID) BET Network, Prod. Marcia Campbell
OCEAN PARK (Feature) • Editor (AVID) Surf Digital Films, Dir. David Warfield, Prod. Eric Liekefet
REMNANTS OF AURIC HEALING (Feature) • Editor (Final Cut Pro) Stell Productions, Dir. Aaron Stell
PUMPKIN (Feature) • Associate Editor (AVID/Film) American Zoetrope/United Artists Films, Dirs. Adam Broder & Tony Abrams
ENTOURAGE (Series) • First Assistant Editor (AVID) HBO Entertainment, Dirs. Julian Farino, Dan Attias, Leslie Libman
WHISPERS: An Elephant's Tale (Feature) •First Assistant Editor (AVID/Film) Walt Disney Pictures, Dirs. Dereck & Beverly Joubert
JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK (Feature) • Assistant Editor (AVID/Film) Askews Me, Inc/Dimension Films, Dir. Kevin Smith
FALLEN (Feature) • Assistant Editor (Film) Atlas Entertainment/Warner Bros., Dir. Gregory Hoblit
THE LAST BACHELOR (Feature) • First Assistant Editor (AVID/Film) Beacon Communications, Dir. Rocco Urbisci
DAY ONE (Pilot) • First Assistant Editor (AVID) Regency/WB, Dir. Michael Katleman
ON THE EDGE OF INNOCENCE (MOW) • First Assistant Editor (AVID) Paramount Television/NBC, Dir. Peter Werner
L.A. JOHNS (MOW) • First Assistant Editor (AVID) Citadel Entertainment/FOX, Dir. Joyce Chopra
SUDDEN TERROR: The Hijacking of School Bus #17 (MOW) • First Assistant Editor (AVID) Columbia/Tristar Television/ABC, Dir. Paul Schneider
ONCE YOU MEET A STRANGER (MOW) • First Assistant Editor (AVID/Film) Warner Bros. Television/CBS, Dir. Tommy Lee Wallace
MY VERY BEST FRIEND (MOW) • First Assistant Editor (AVID) Viacom/CBS, Dir. Joyce Chopra
RAISING CAINES (Series) • First Assistant Editor (AVID) Tristar Television/NBC, Ex. Prod. Bob Brush
THE VIKING SAGAS (Feature) • Apprentice Editor (AVID/Film) New Line Cinema, Dir. Michael Chapman
REVERSE HEAVEN (Feature) • Assistant Editor (Film) Crystal Sky Communications, Ex. Prod. Jon Voight
OTHER EXPERIENCE:
CITROEN "Bucking Bronco", Dir. David Lynch - Asst. Editor (Commercial)
OCEAN PARK, Dir. David Warfield - Editor EPK (Trailer)
RIDDLE, Dir. Adam Kreutner - Editor (Short )
SYSTEMS AND SKILLS:
Member Editors Guild #700 /AVID Film Composer & AVID Xpress DV (All Platforms) / Final Cut Pro / KEM /Moviola / Projection / Adobe Photoshop / FileMaker Pro / Type 75 w.p.m / General office & computer skills (Mac & PC) / Spanish / Voice-Overs
EDUCATION: University of California, Irvine, B.A. in Film Studies
REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.
Janelle Ashley Nielson - Film Editor's Reel
Editing Demo Reel - Quicktime Movie - Running Time - 10 mins.This reel includes an opening montage of clips and a compilation of scenes which I cut from films and TV shows such as: Real Women Have Curves, Pumpkin, The Lone Ranger, Entourage, Karroll's Christmas and Ocean Park. Click the play button to start.
Articles about Film Editing
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Film Editing - Learn more about film editing
Film Editing Schools - Find film editing schools to learn how to cut picture
Film Editing Dictionary - Look up helpful terms related to the film editor
Basic Home Movie Editing with Adobe Premiere - How Video Editing Works, a guide for the average consumer that wants to get started editing their movies on their home computer
Definition of Film Editing - A Wikipedia definition and a bit of history of film editing, from influences like Soviet montage theory to digital editing, including information on Film Editing practices from great filmmakers like Eisenstein, Kuleshov, D.W. Griffith, and Kubrick. Also includes some rules for cutting from Edward Dymtryk and Walter Murch.
Art and Analyses of Film Sound Design - Excellent resource about sound editing and design, with great articles from famous award-winning sound editors and designers like Walter Murch and Randy Thom
Editing the film "Zodiac" - Editor Angus Wall talks about the completely tapeless post-production workflow used on the film
"Charlotte's Web" Spinners: Editorial Team Weaves an Anthropomorphic Menagerie - Editors Susan Littenberg and Sabrina Plisco talk about the challenges they faced when editing this heavy visual effects based film
The View from the Cutting Room Ceiling - Editor Debra Neil-Fisher discusses how she cut a scene from "Welcome to Mooseport"
Zach Staenberg on the Matrix Trilogy - Editor Zach Staenberg talks about his experience cutting the Matrix movies and what it was like for him to work with the Wachowski Brothers on this VFX intense film
Moving Up: Becoming an Editor - Twelve Editors talk about how they got their first jobs and give advice on how to becomg an editor.
Editing "Slumdog Millionaire" - Oscar winning editor Chris Dickens talks about editing this award winning feature
Editing "Milk" - Oscar nominated editor Elliot Graham talks about editing Milk
Editing "The Dark Knight" - Oscar nominated editor Lee Smith talks about editing The Dark Knight on Avid
FILM AND VIDEO EDITING SOFTWARE
DVD TITLES FOR SALE
(FILMS AND SERIES THAT I HAVE WORKED ON)
(FILMS AND SERIES THAT I HAVE WORKED ON)
RECOMMENDED BOOKS & FILMS ABOUT FILM EDITING
TECHNICAL TIPS
AVID / AVID XPRESS TECHNICAL TIPSCode of Effects - Sharing Some Secrets From the Cutting Room - Using AVID FilmScribe and FileMaker Pro to manage films with a large amount of Visual Effects (VFX)
How to Use the Avid Calculator - How to calculate footages and timings using the calculator that is part of the Avid program
Using Avid FilmScribe - Learn how to generate assemble, pull and negative cutlists using FilmScribe and Avid. Also use this tool for generating optical cut lists for your VFX.
Managing Your Avid Unity Project - Learn how to organize your Avid Unity workspaces for optimum project work flow.
Working with Avid Log Exchange (ALE) - A step by step explanation of how to use Avid Log Exchange to create your ALE files for importing shot log files and databases into the Avid and convert files from other sources such as FLX, FTL, Final Cut Pro, and others.
7 Quick Tips for More Efficient Editing - Working Efficiently on the Avid will give you more time to be creative
FINAL CUT PRO ( FCP) TECHNICAL TIPS
How to configure Mac OSX for FCP - Useful tips to set up your OS for maximum performance
DVD-Rs for Media Back-up in FCP - How to backup up your Final Cut Pro media files to DVD-R
Definition of Insert vs. Overwrite Edit - Learn the difference between Insert and Overwrite editing with Final Cut Pro
Locating Sequence Audio Levels that are Too Loud in FCP - Techniques for finding "hot" or distorted audio levels in your Final Cut Pro sequence
Using Final Cut Pro Green Visibility Lights - Tips for using the green visibility lights in the timeline of FCP
Creating Burned in Timecode in Final Cut Pro - How to put a time code burn in window on your FCP sequence
Changing Reel Names in Final Cut Pro - From dvcreators.net, if you’ve ever chosen the wrong reel name, or entered the wrong reel name on accident here is a cool tip to show you how to fix that. This tip is a visual walk-through using the FCP interface.
Renaming clips in FCP - How to rename clips in Final Cut Pro 6
Creating a WMV movie file from Final Cut Pro - Step-by-step instructions on how to export and create a a WMV film from a FCP sequence
Removing Audio Pops and Clicks in Final Cut Pro - Subframe audio editing tips from Ripple Training
Saving Favorites in FCP - Ripple Training shows you how to save favorite transition effects and filters to be used again in later sequences. You can also save multiple filter packs to save time on redoing old effects. Try this with motion effects as well!
Easily change file names in Final Cut - An easy step by step guide on how to change multiple file names in FCP. This is a great timesaver!
Add Transition Effects to Multiple Clips - How to add transition effects to multiple clips, another great timesaver for Final Cut Pro!
Restore Deleted Audio of Video Portions in Your Timeline - If you have deleted the audio, or video portion of a clip in your Final Cut Pro timeline, but you want to it back, use this helpful tip!
How to Export HDV video to SD DVD Using FCP - Step by step process for exporting HDV to SD DVD
How to Find Items in the Timeline - An easy way to search for clips in your timeline using the find command
Quick Ways to Add Transitions in Final Cut Studio - Streamline your editing with tools to speed up time spent on effects
Creating an Animated Effect in FCP - How to add an animated cartoon effect to your Final Cut Pro sequence
Create a Venetian Blind Look Over Picture - Add a venetian blind mask box to your video with this easy trick in Final Cut Studio
FREE Plug-ins for Final Cut Pro - Visit this site for free plugins for use with Final Cut Pro. Includes Video Filters like Luma effects, technicolor looks, and blowout fixers.
Smooth Cam Filter in FCP6 - Learn how to smooth out shaky camera work using this filter
MISCELLANEOUS TECHNICAL TIPS
iDVD 7 - Everything you need to know to get you started using iDVD 7
Creating and Uploading Movies to You Tube - A step by step way to export and create movies from Final Cut Pro, Quicktime or others to upload to YouTube.com
Creating a DVD with Burnt-in Timecode - Steps to adding a timecode burn-in to your DVD using DVD Studio Pro
Film Editor's Dictionary: A helpful glossary of film editing related terms
Academy Leader - An Academy Leader is a standard picture leader that is placed at the beginning of a reel of film. The leader gives the film projectionist a start mark to cue up into the projector before screening. This start mark can also correspond to a sound leader so that sound and picture can be synced for projection or viewing on a flatbed. An Academy Leader has a numbered countdown, with the start mark (hole punch and/or X) being the number 12, and counting down to 0, which is the first frame of picture action on the reel.
Avid Media Composer - Avid Media Composer is a digital editing system for full-featured offline, film, and online editors requiring top quality and maximum choice of effects. It delivers dual-stream compressed and uncompressed 601 images, real-time 3D Effects, plus real-time 9-stream hardware multicamera capability. For more information on Avid products, visit www.avid.com .
Clapper - A clapper is the slate which has two sticks that are clapped together within the camera's view at the beginning of each take for the purpose of synchronizing picture and sound in the editing room. Clappers that come at the end of the take before camera and sound cut are called tail sticks.
Coding / Coding Machine - Once the picture workprint and magnetic sound print are placed in sync using camera slates and sound clappers, the "sunk" rolls are coded using a coding machine that stamps matching colored edge numbers on the edge of the prints so that sound and picture can be easily kept in sync after the film is cut.
Conforming - Conforming is done either in the editing room when digital cut lists are produced from an offline digital editing system such as an Avid, or by the negative cutter when the film is "locked" or completely cut. Conforming is the process of cutting the editor's film workprint to match the editor's offline digital cut, and is usually done using either code numbers made by a coding machine or by using key numbers.
Cutaway - A cutaway is the interruption of a continuously-filmed action by inserting a shot of something else. It is usually followed by a cutback to the first shot.
Dailies (also known as Rushes) - Dailies are film prints made immediately after a day's shooting that are usually viewed the following day by directors, editors, cinematographers and other crew members. Viewing dailies the day after they are shot can be helpful in case a director is not happy with an actor's performance, if there is a camera issue such as soft focus or negative scratches, and also crucial to the editor to be able to see what the "coverage" is for each scene. If needed, an editor can suggest additional or "pickup" shots to be filmed that will help with telling the story.
Dissolve - A dissolve is a gradual transition from one image to another, where both images can be seen overlapping each other.
Establishing Shot - An establishing shot is a short shot or group of shots at the beginning of a scene indicating where the remainder of the scene takes place. For example, an exterior shot of an office building, followed by an interior shot of two co-workers talking, implies that the conversation is taking place inside that building. Many times, if a film is filmed inside of a sound stage, a crew will go out and shoot an establishing shot, or sometimes stock film houses will provide stock shots of buildings and locations.
Fade-in - A fade in is a shot which begins in total darkness and gradually lightens to full brightness. Sound and music can also fade in.
Fade-out - the opposite of a fade-in.
Fade-out - the opposite of a fade-in.
Keying - Keying is an informal term for compositing two full frame images together, by discriminating the visual information into values of color and light.
Master Shot - A master shot (also called an establishing shot or long shot) is a filmic recording of an entire scene, start to finish, from an angle that keeps all of the main actors in view. Usually, the "master shot" is the first shot recorded during the shooting of a scene. The master shot is ordinarily supplemented with other shots recorded fom different angle - groupings of two or three of the actors at crucial moments, close-ups of individuals, insert shots of various props, and so on.
POV (Point of View) Shot - A POV shot is a shot that is filmed from the character's point of view, or what that character is looking at, from their view. POV shots can be from the view of an animal, a character, a robot, and so on.
Rough cut (also known as a First Assembly) - A rough cut is a first assembly or first cut / first pass of a film which the editor builds from selected takes, in script order. Sometimes rough cuts will have "holes" or gaps where visual effects shots or scenes that have yet to be filmed will eventually go in the story order. Most editors will insert a visual title or banner in these holes that says "Scene Missing".
Slate - A Slate is the board upon which important information about a shot is displayed. The slate is filmed by the camera either at the head or tail of a shot to provide crucial information to the film lab and to the editor, such as scene and take numbers, name of the show, name of director and director of photography, sound roll and camera roll numbers, and sound timecode if the slate is digital. If the shot is slated at the tail of a shot, the slate will be held upside-down, and is called "tail sticks".
Sync pop (also known as a 2-pop) - A sync pop is a single frame of sound tone placed on the soundtrack that corresponds with the visual picture "2" frame on the SMPTE or Academy leader.
Here are a few of my favorite clips and movies which influenced me to become an Editor
From Harold and Maude , the last scene intercuts between two seperate time frames, to the song "Trouble" by Cat Stevens. The intercutting between Maude's death and Harold's drive is so effective for the audience to really get inside Harold's mind and experience the grief as he is experiencing it. This movie as a whole is brilliantly done.
One of my favorite filmmakers whom I studied in college is Stan Brakhage . His avant-garde films were literally paintings on celluloid. Stan's experimental films helped me to see how important every frame of film can be. Many of his films were silent, yet even with silence, they had a visual music of their own. Below is his film, Mothlight (made in 1963) .
Another influential filmmaker that inspired me to become an editor was Georges Melies. His films were some of the first in film history to utilize special effects such as time-lapse photography, stop camera trick, multiple exposure, dissolves. His films influenced me to see film as a magical medium that could be manipulated to tell any story. This film, L'homme-orchestre, made in 1900, is one of my favorites.
The first film that I remember seeing in a movie theater was Tommy. Yes, I was 5... what was my babysitter thinking? But thanks to her, I was exposed to something I had never seen in my life. This was the first "music video/musical/rock opera" that I had ever seen and I LOVED it. The scene below was one of my favorites, with fast paced cutting and visual elements in rhythm to the music.
Raising Arizona is one of my all time favorite comedies. This scene below is not only perfectly edited for its comedy beats, but it also goes to show you that you don't always need dialogue to make the audience laugh!
One of my all time favorite psychological thrillers is Silence of the Lambs . This scene where Jody Foster faces off with Buffalo Bill is by far one of the most suspenseful "chase" scenes I've ever seen. The tension that is created with the editing, the camera work, acting and music makes this one of the most memorable scenes in motion picture history.
Here are a few of my favorite links!
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Film Editors & Other Film Industry Friends
thefilmeditor.com - Home of Janelle Ashley Nielson - Film Editor - return to my home page, read articles about film editing, and watch my film editor's reel!filmediting.com - Home of Patrick Don Vito - Film Editor - an excellent site for podcast interviews about film editing. Stay tuned for my interview with Patrick!
HollywoodReinvented -The Network for Digital Filmmakers - an excellent resource for all digital filmmakers, created by one of my mentors, Lawrence "Larry" Jordan -- Hollywood Reinvented is a video based web network for professional and aspiring creative’s in the fields of film, TV, online media and web video.
vozart.com - Site & Portfolio of Storyboard Artist Mike Vosburg - Mike is the brilliant artist who drew me as a storyboard on my main page! He is an amazing storyboard artist and illustrator, and is also the illustrator for the provacative adult comic "Lori Lovecraft" Mike was the supervising storyboard artist who I worked with on The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. He is currently working on The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.
tomnel.net - Site & Portfolio of Storyboard Artist Tom Nelson - A great place to see some of Tom's brilliantly drawn storyboards that Sim & I used to edit animatics with on The Chronicles of Narnia. He is currently working on The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.
The Sync Tank - Full Feature Foley Recording Studio
Film Directing Tips - Film Directing and Film Making Tips for the Independent Filmmaker - Sign up for your own FREE subscription to “The Director’s Chair” filmmaking ezine
Lazy Bones Recordings - A Music Production Company That's About The Music - "Our focus in on the MUSIC, not the hype. Producers of cool indie bands & active in placing their music in film, tv & advertising. Real bands only! No cheesy library music!"
Film / Television / Film Editor Job Boards
mandy.com - international film and TV production resourcesentertainmentcareers.net - Entertainment Jobs, Internships and Career Information in the Entertainment Industry.
realitystaff.com - Reality Television Production Job listings, search for jobs or post them
imdb.com - Internet Movie Database
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Welcome to The Film Editor.com, professional home page for Film and Television Editor, Janelle Ashley Nielson , and the location of her editing reel and resume.
 Janelle as a storyboard, drawn by Mike Vosburg |
Janelle Ashley Nielson began her career in the film editing world shortly after graduating from U.C. Irvine with a degree in Film Studies. Working her way up through the ranks from an apprentice to assistant to first assistant to additional editor to Editor, Janelle's experience ranges from cutting feature films to animatics editing to reality TV and more.
Janelle has worked on such films and shows as "The Chronicles of Narnia", "Real Women Have Curves", "Pumpkin", and "Entourage". She is currently editing the hit reality series "Kendra" on E! as well as "Holly's World". Prior to that she cut many seasons of hit series such as "The Girls Next Door" on E! and National Geographic's "Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan". Previous to that, she cut the second season of the FOX reality TV series "Trading Spouses". She has had the pleasure of working with great directors and producers such as Andrew Adamson, David Lynch, Dennis Dugan, Kevin Smith, Julian Farino, Linda Berman, SueAnn Fincke, Jim Milio, Patricia Cardoso, Michael Chapman, and many more amazing filmmakers.
She credits much of her creativity and editing talent to her mentors, who each added different points of views on how to edit, and who each taught her invaluable knowledge not only about the art and craft of editing, but also about cutting room "collaboration". Janelle's favorite part about editing is creating something interesting and intriguing for viewers to watch, and being able to make someone laugh, cry, or clutch their seats in anticipation. She also believes that an editing room filled with fun, laughter and creativity is one that will produce the best work!
This website is also a resource for the film editor and assistant editor. Here you will finduseful film and tv editor resources such as film editor jobs, personal sites of other editors, editing technical tips and articles about editors, and other film industry related internet resources. If you would like to contribute an article to this site on a film editing related topic, please contact Janelle.
For a list of questions and answers sent to Janelle about film editing, visit
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For a list of questions and answers sent to Janelle about film editing, visit
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