Open-Minded Curmudgeons | The Render Bar ep204

New Avid, same existential dread.

In this episode, we complain (productively!) about everything from imposter syndrome on a new gig to the mild panic of walking into a job and realizing the Avid version is not the one you know. We talk adaptation, hesitation, and that weird sense of vertigo when your keyboard shortcuts betray you.

But we don’t stop at grumbling — we dig into what it actually means to be an editor in a film industry that’s evolving faster than your last export crashed.

A listener email from the UK sparks a reflection on the state of work on both sides of the pond. We ask: Who are you if you’re not editing? And can you unplug without completely unraveling?

Then it’s time to wrestle with the AI elephant in the room. From documentary ethics and VFX temp comps to authorship debates, Google’s VEO 3, and whether  ...