Editing
Keeping Your Viewer Glued to the Screen
Editing
Our award-winning documentary editors rank in the top 5%. They can cut your trailer, cut an entire film, finish editing your film, or help you at any time during post-production. They keep their eye on the viewer’s experience. Where might the viewer feel bored or confused? How can we edit a sequence so the viewer feels enlightened and glued to the screen?
Chosen for their impressive achievements in film, our experienced editors have been further trained in New Doc storytelling principles. They will cull and edit your footage, leveraging your most unique and dramatic material for maximum impact.
(Note: Because fit is so important, we do not give out editors’ names or credentials without talking first. Please contact us when you’re approaching post-production.)
If you hire us to edit your film, you will also receive one story consultation every four weeks without charge ($2000 value). To get a sense of what a real story consultation is like, listen to our well-produced podcast, The Art of Documentary Storytelling!
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Check out our FAQ page for more information on editing with us. We also offer an Accelerated Post schedule for directors with limited budgets.
Collaborating to execute your vision, a New Doc editor will:
- Help structure your character-driven, essay-style or hybrid documentary
- Maximize the dramatic potential of your film
- Edit efficiently, with clear objectives for Assembly Cut, Rough Cuts, Fine Cut and Locked Picture
- Craft Character Transformation (if that potential exists)
- Suggest strategies for delivering exposition, such as narration or text.
- Advise on music
- Provide personal collaboration by email, phone and/or Skype as often as you like
- Engage in periodic, recorded reviews of cuts with your team and Karen, who provides complementary story consulting
- Edit a fundraising or theatrical trailer (optional)
- Provide preliminary color correction and set audio levels (optional)
As a first time filmmaker, I was seeking an editing team with experience and vision. I was fortunate enough to find New Doc Editing. My experience was nothing less than wonderful. New Doc Editing is well organized and extremely professional. Karen's editors have stellar editing skills, are patient, and unbelieveably dedicated. I am very proud of the film we created. It would not have been possible without my fantastic editing team.
Accelerated Post
Need to Fast Track Your Edit?
On average, our feature-length edits last 16 weeks. Some less, some more. But not every independent filmmaker has the budget to cut a feature documentary. For a cost-effective way to cut your entire documentary in just 10 weeks, check out our innovative Accelerated Post schedule.
Keep in mind the traditional cost of hiring an experienced documentary editor ($60-120K) is out of reach for many indie filmmakers. Accelerated Post™ is our solution! It’s a fast-track, post-production schedule designed to edit your documentary within ten weeks–for half the cost!
Learn About Accelerated Post
Editing For Fundraising
Learn how to edit your content to pitch to non-traditional funders.
This 90-minute webinar was held April 15, 2021. Watch the recording here.
