Could a 14-hour long shoot in a giant tank of murky water cause a crane operator to celebrate? Jeff Comfort, a tech, who operated the 32’ Hydrascope, a waterproof telescoping crane by Chapman/Leonard Studios, says he was excited on the set of CSI New York (Episode 402, “The Deep”).

In the industry, one of the best music video editors is Livio Sanchez. Sanchez is one of the staff editors on the roster of FilmCore Editorial, a prestigious post house in Santa Monica, Calif. Like most of his music video compatriots, Livio considers himself a film editor even though he cuts his licks on an Avid Media Composer because most music videos are shot on film.

 Over 100 years ago, Thomas Edison introduced the Kinetoscope at the Chicago World Fair, giving the public its first practical means of viewing moving pictures. Through the persistence of vision, the brain could be tricked in perceiving motion by watching a series of still images in succession. While your mind is taking in the image of one still, the next still appears and so on.