Wednesday, July 25th

Wednesday, July 25 | 6:00 – 7:30 pm

Topics of the Future – Artificial Intelligence/HDR (High Dynamic Range)

Jim Tierney, Bram Desmet, Norman Hollyn, Jeff Greenberg

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Wednesday, July 25 | 7:30 – 9:30 pm

“NAB’s biggest discovery was…?”

Open discussion regarding NAB Show 2018’s biggest discoveries, highlights, and talked about moments.

Thursday, July 26

Thursday, July 26 | 9:30 – 10:00 am

Personal Development: Guided Meditation

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Thursday, July 26 | 10:00 – 11:30 am

The Lean Forward Moment Shaping Stories for your Audience

Norman Hollyn

So, you’ve got a script or an idea from your producer, director or client. Now you have a ton of footage to try and shape into that idea. How can you do that? And how can you work with problematic material to get to where you and your bosses want to go?


Thursday, July 26 | 11:45 am – 12:45 pm

Peer Presentations

Peer Sessions are something special – Where seasoned professionals deconstruct their own projects, showing innovative solutions – sometimes workflow, sometimes creative- sometimes a mixture of both!

Yes, we provide coaching.

$500 discount if you choose to submit a topic

Prior year sessions have included:

Producing from the Editor’s Chair: The Hurricane Katrina Project

Building the Emmy Red Carpet Promo in Media Composer

Still Screaming: Cutting a Horror Documentary


Thursday, July 26 | 3:00 – 4:00 pm

Premiere: Advanced Techniques and Workflows

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Thursday, July 26 | 3:00 – 4:00 pm

FCPX: Advanced Techniques and Workflows

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Thursday, July 26 | 3:00 – 4:00 pm

DaVinci Resolve: Advanced Techniques and Workflows

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Thursday, July 26 | 4:00 – 5:00 pm

Premiere: Advanced Techniques and Workflows

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Thursday, July 26 | 4:00 – 5:00 pm

AVID: Advanced Techniques and Workflows

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Thursday, July 26 | 4:00 – 5:00 pm

DaVinci Resolve: Advanced Techniques and Workflows

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Thursday, July 26 | 5:30 – 6:30 pm

Planning Your 21st Century Career / Planning Your Career in the Changing World

Norman Hollyn

Sure, you can look for a job. You can also network (just being at Editors Retreat) means that you’re doing that. But how can you focus yourself so that you’re looking for a career, not just a job? That requires WORK. I’ll spend some time going over some of the career planning strategies that some of the top career planning companies use, and tell how you can make them work in the editing world – no matter where in the physical world you happen to be.

Friday, July 27

Friday, July 27 | 9:00 am – 7:00 pm

Editing in DaVinci Resolve

Hosted By Blackmagic Design, Dell, and Edit Stock

Too often, we learn only under duress…only when the need is desperate -and on a live project

What if you could learn Resolve as AN EDITOR, where you’re most comfortable but with a net?

The “Choose your Own Editing Adventure” is a chance to crash through an edit with experts in the room to help you Resolve a part of your toolkit.

Pick a genre that you’ve always wanted to cut:

  • Comedy
  • Action
  • Drama
  • Horror
  • Music Video
  • Commercial

Get a unique chance to show off your storytelling skills, work on professionally created materials (from Editstock), and learn the basics of Resolve ALL IN ONE DAY!

Saturday, July 28

Saturday, July 28 | 10:00 – 10:45 am

Best Communications Practices

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Saturday, July 28 | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm

Keynote Interview with Kevin D. Ross

Kevin D. RossEmmy Nominated ACE Editor; Stranger Things

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Saturday, July 28 | 2:30 – 3:15 pm

Fitness in Post

Zack Arnold

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Saturday, July 28 | 4:00 – 5:00 pm

Peer Presentations

Peer Sessions are something special – Where seasoned professionals deconstruct their own projects, showing innovative solutions – sometimes workflow, sometimes creative- sometimes a mixture of both!

Yes, we provide coaching.

$500 discount if you choose to submit a topic

Prior year sessions have included:

Producing from the Editor’s Chair: The Hurricane Katrina Project

Building the Emmy Red Carpet Promo in Media Composer

Still Screaming: Cutting a Horror Documentary


Saturday, July 28 | 4:00 – 5:00 pm

Peer Presentations

Peer Sessions are something special – Where seasoned professionals deconstruct their own projects, showing innovative solutions – sometimes workflow, sometimes creative- sometimes a mixture of both!

Yes, we provide coaching.

$500 discount if you choose to submit a topic

Prior year sessions have included:

Producing from the Editor’s Chair: The Hurricane Katrina Project

Building the Emmy Red Carpet Promo in Media Composer

Still Screaming: Cutting a Horror Documentary

Saturday, July 28 | 5:30 – 6:15 pm

Episodic TV

Zack Arnold

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Saturday, July 28 | 6:30 – 7:15 pm

Storytelling and Scene Studies: Editing beyond the Dialogue

Monica Daniel

This session will go over scripted narrative scenes and how they were approached in order to convey the subtext of the scene, and it will also cover balancing the delicate emotional tone across several scenes.

Sunday, July 29

Sunday, July 29 | 10:00 am

15 second Clip Festival

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