CUTTING ‘TERMINATOR: DARK FATE’
Decades after Sarah Connor (played by actress Linda Hamilton) helped prevent a catastrophic ending for humanity, a new and improved Terminator—a killing machine, Rev-9—is sent to eliminate the future leader of the resistance. In a fight to once again save mankind, Sarah teams up with an unexpected ally, Skynet’s synthetically intelligent model T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger), and an enhanced super-soldier named Grace (Mackenzie Davis) to protect future resistance leader Dani Ramos (Natalia Reyes).
While director Tim Miller was tasked to navigate us through this world teetering on the edge of extinction (at least for humans), it was editor Julian Clarke’s job to take the thousands of hours of “footage” and special effects and present them in a dramatic, spine-tingling cohesive manner in the 2019 film “Terminator: Dark Fate.” Not only was humanity’s future hanging in the balance, so was a multi-billion dollar franchise.
Digital Photo Pro: What was your workflow for the postproduction on “Terminator: Dark Fate?”
Julian Clarke: We encoded a ProRes offline version of the dailies that was not very compressed—it could be projected on the big screen, and it would look good. We cut those on iMac Pros.
Also, we were working in a proprietary version of Adobe Premiere: It’s
