Walter Murch
“San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and London… like they’re just down the hall.”
Working in both picture editing and sound design, Walter Murch has accumulated nine nominations for the Academy Award, winning for sound on Apocalypse Now, and picture and sound on The English Patient.
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He has been pushing creative and technical boundaries for thirty-five years in a career long associated with Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. Murch first used PIX Project on Jarhead, the movie directed by Sam Mendes, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Jamie Foxx.
“It was the first time I had worked with Sam. He was shooting in remote locations in Mexico and the Imperial Valley while I was editing at Lucasfilm in San Francisco” Murch says. “I would edit the material together and PIX the cut scene to Sam that same day. He was able to download the scene onto his laptop and could then study it at his leisure, or show it to other people if he wanted to.
“He was able to see my approach, and I was able to hear what he liked, what kind of coverage he thought was problematical, how many cuts were too many, and so on. PIX was a crucial help in accelerating the process of us getting to know each other creatively, and so it sped up and increased the quality of the whole post-production on a very complicated and challenging film.”