Jude did say that, but he didn't think Kate would be his girlfriend at the time, so the promise was now a headache.

"Two Smoking Guns" has not yet been released, Jude will definitely not take the time to think about what to shoot in the next movie, and none of the favorite movies in his head have a particularly outstanding female character, and if it is a normal vase role, he feels a little wronged by his girlfriend.

Fortunately, this problem can be left to Li Teh for the time being, and I don't expect the other party to really solve it, but at least it can be delayed for some time.

Back in the U.S., Jude immediately began post-production on Two Smoking Guns, and New Line rented the venue equipment of a film studio in North Hollywood and sent an editor named Leo to assist Jude in his work.

"Two Big Smoking Guns" uses film shooting throughout the whole process, and when digital technology has not yet developed to meet the production needs of general crews, the status of film shooting will not be replaced for the time being, Jude still wanted to do it himself at first, but after watching Leo's demonstration, he decisively gave up the idea and agreed to take over by Leo in full, on the condition that the other party must edit the film exactly according to his intentions.

Leo can only accept this, because after coming here, the new line company has clearly told him that the final editing of the film is in Jude's hands, and he can put forward his own editing opinions, but in the end, Jude has the final say on how to cut it.

Of course, the new line company also gave Leo an important task, that is, to provide Jude with some professional advice as much as possible, so as not to end up with a movie that Jude himself intended no one to understand.

It is not surprising that the new line company has such worries, because Jude's last film used a special shooting method of one shot to the end, and only a simple sound effect production was carried out after the film was made, and the other two very important tasks in the post-production of the film were not involved in the assembly of shots and special effects production, which means that although Jude now holds the title of director, he is basically a layman in post-production.

Leo's biggest fear is to cooperate with such a person, obviously you don't understand anything, but you still have to do what he wants, and after messing up, he won't find the reason from himself, he will only feel that the problem is with you.

It's a thankless job.

Leo mourned for himself for a few minutes, and Jude had already walked over with a thick notebook.

"I promised Mr. White that he would see the first cut in a week, so we didn't have much time left, and sometimes we might have to work overtime, but I'd pay double the pay, what's the problem?"

Leo's whole person was stunned for a moment, the temptation of double salary. Although the confusion is big, the problem is that Jude wants to finish editing the entire movie in a week, which is simply an impossible task in Leo's opinion.

In Hollywood, the post-production time of a movie is generally not less than the time spent on shooting, and the idea of completing the post-production of a film in a few days or even a week is completely fanciful.

"Director Locke, forgive me for being presumptuous, but don't you really think a week is too short?"

"You think I'm joking with you?" Jude looked at Leo, shook his head solemnly and said: "The one-week completion I said does not include special effects production and sound effects production, just assembling shots, and what to do I have already written in this book, if you can't do it, then I can only consider asking the new line company to find me another editor." ”

Leo hesitantly took the notebook Jude handed him, and found that it was a dense string of numerical numbers, separated by different parentheses, and then each parenthesis would have some simple text notes on it.

"You first put together a few shots in the first bracket, and I'll see the effect."

Jude sat back on the monitor and gave Leo the first command.

Leo shrugged his shoulders and took his notebook and began to do so.

Soon, the scene of Jason Statham and another male protagonist selling fake stolen goods on the street appeared on the monitor screen in its entirety.

Jude watched the less than two-minute scene several times, and finally decided to cut down two of the shots from front to back, and the reassembled shots became smoother and tighter.

Leo couldn't find anything wrong with this clip after watching it, but he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, always feeling that Jude's luck made it happen, and the following clip will definitely not go as smoothly as this one.

But what happened next left Leo dumbfounded, and every time he put the lenses together in parentheses, Jude only needed to make some minor adjustments to the length of the shots to meet the projection requirements.

It's all so simple, so simple that Leo himself finds it a little unbelievable.

After the group finished receiving a set of shots, he couldn't help but glance at Jude, who was sitting behind the monitor, could it be that the other party had already thought about how to edit the movie when shooting, so none of the shots were wasted, not to mention all the shots used in editing, and each shot only needed to be fine-tuned to be used directly, God knows how precise the calculation and preparation required to do it.

Could it be that I misunderstood the other party, this guy is really a genius?

Leo couldn't help but think in his heart, and when he looked at Jude again, his eyes had become different from before.

Jude didn't know that he was about to be treated like an alien by Leo at the moment, and the editing process of post-production was time-consuming and laborious, and a large part of the reason was that the editor had to spend too much energy between the selection and combination of shots, and a group of shots often had to be deleted many times to achieve satisfactory results, but these were not needed at all by Jude, he had the live images of the whole movie directly in his head, and there were no superfluous shots during shooting. When editing, you don't need to think about which shot is put before and which is behind, so the time saved is quite scary.

As more and more film clips were edited, Leo went from initial shock to numbness, and he has now completely given up on giving Jude advice, and splices the shots together one after the other according to the combinations listed in Jude's notes.

Jude only makes a few minor adjustments to individual shots at a time, and a set of shots is considered edited.

It's simple and straightforward, and there's no technology to speak of.

It's just that the movie clips cut out like this can't be faulted, so Leo can only be painful and happy now.