Sherlock Holmes Editing Review

Moving on from the film’s movement, editing was a huge part of this film. Director Guy Ritchie’s, go-to editor is James Herbert. James Herbert explains, they “used four Avids, all running off a Unity- three PCs and one Mac, which the visual effects editor used.” (postmagazine.com) He said he prefers working with a 2.8 Avid Media Composer and using Mojo instead of Adrenaline allowed them to rarely need to digitize and it also kept the budget cost low. He explains during the workflow he looked through the rushes while Ritchie was shooting, he would cut and score what he thought it should look like and on most occasions Ritchie would love it. Herbert mentioned that the film was so linear that there wasn’t much they could’ve changed to the story. One very challenging scene, Herbert explains, was the hallucination scene. He made the montages as one and took Blackwood out making the scene more simplified. He used Final Cut Pro for the stylistic look as well.