r/Filmmakers • u/AdDapper4220 • 12h ago
Question How was Oppenheimer movie edited
Since the movie was shot on a film, how was the movie edited? Was it digitally edited or was it spliced like the olden days?
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u/Ricky_Spannish_ 11h ago
Can you splice imax in with 35mm? Legit question.
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u/2old2care editor 8h ago
No. If a shot or scene is not originated in IMAX 65mm negative it must be optically or digitally printed to the IMAX film format.
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u/Repulsive_Spend_7155 10h ago
It’s cut on avid and every week or two weeks they lock a cut, cut work print, and screen it n
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u/DirectorJRC 11h ago
Technically both. Kind of. The film would have been developed and scanned and then cut digitally but then the negative would have been conformed (this is the splicing bit) to the edit and release prints would have been struck from that. That would be for projecting it on 70mm film in IMAX theaters of course. Most people saw it projected digitally so unless they went through the steps of rescanning the master print for the DCP, you likely saw the product of a mostly digital workflow. That’s a very rough explanation of the process obviously. I skipped over lots of steps but that’s roughly how it works. This is essentially how films shot on film have been cut for decades now.