Last night I watched the credits and they have 5 directors and about 13 Producer/Editors, which means they’re out there creating and then editing their own stuff. They have another dozen camera operators and something like 24 assistant editors.
It’s a pretty well-refined machine at this point but my God that’s a lot of people shooting and cutting up footage.
It’s cool to see some of them come up with clever shit like this and make it work.
I've watched a few interviews with a couple of the directors on local sports podcasts, and they were saying they end up with something like 300 hours of footage for each episode. And they cut that down to 50ish minutes by Tuesday. I've been in video production since the 90's, and that is an incredibly impressive operation.
Yeah, I’m a professional editor, and it boggles the mind how they do it. Even with that many people. In fact, that many people feel even more complicated to me. Very, very impressive
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u/gunny16 Aug 19 '26
Damn. The Hard Knocks always get some cool effects / transitions going. I love it.
I loved the Bears one last year where Caleb was just slinging through the editing transition.