[Rick Sanchez]

A lot of great ideas. Though I rarely work on long form projects anymore, one thing I have seen as a trend is that picture editors are doing more and more of the audio work.

One thing that gets neglected in most of these discussions is education and as audio professionals, we should start to consider a mentoring and educational program for picture editors, directors and producers. Film schools are notorious to spending very little, if any, time on audio issues, overall workflow and budget balancing. That is all painfully obvious when you see how up and coming filmmakers leave virtually nothing in the budget for post, and the end project shows it.

It's always picture vs sound, which is absurd if you are making "talkies". The more knowledgeable our clients and co-workers are about audio for picture, the better off we will all be. Or...we can allow the downward spiral of quality, pay and the number of jobs to continue as it did in the music business over the last 30 years.