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Article: DigitalFilm Tree takes root on Cold Mountain.(Edit This!)
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WEST HOLLYWOOD -- Small, software-based editing systems aren't known for handling major motion pictures; they're more suited to laptops and short promos and sketching design work.
But Ramy Katrib and Zed Saeed of DigitalFilm Tree (DFT) were ready the day Sean Cullen, first assistant editor to none other than Walter Murch, walked into their shop with Murch in tow. It was a few months before Cold Mountain was to go into production and Cullen had been cagey over the phone in preliminary chats, but Katrib and Saeed could tell by Cullen's technically sophisticated questions that something big was up. Big as in 600,000 feet of feature film to be shot in Romania by ...