The new audio technique was an artificial intelligence machine learning-based technique, and the team has had great results. In the last few months, we were able to add in a few things that we otherwise wouldn’t have because the clarity wouldn’t have been there. Did that affect the storytelling and the kind of things that you could do because you’ve been on this longer than that, right? HULLFISH: So, you mentioned the audio was something that really just happened in the last year. Image © Disney Studios And as a fresh-faced AE in a special BTS feature from The Lord of the Rings.
(L-R) Jabez Olssen and Peter Jackson promoting The Beatles: Get Back. It looks like they shot it last year to me. HULLFISH: It was shot on 16mm film and looks fantastic. The audio is a new thing that was just developed in the last year or so, but the picture restoration was the plan from the beginning on this film, which came out of the previous documentary we did where we restored a lot of that World War One footage. HULLFISH: Is that with both picture and audio? I heard about how the audio was restored very specifically so that you could separate instruments. So, that was sort of a dry run for this Beatles project in a way because it developed a lot of the restoration techniques that the team has been using to improve the footage. OLSSEN: Both were a process of restoring the footage, up-rezzing it, and making it look as good as it could. HULLFISH: Did your work on They Shall Not Grow Old prep you in any way for working on this project? He was nominated for a BAFTA for his work as Additional Editor on The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.Ĭheck out the Art of the Cut podcast to listen to this interview, and stay up to date on all the latest episodes. His work as an editor includes The Lovely Bones, all three Hobbit movies and Jackson’s last documentary, They Shall Not Grow Old. Jabez began his career working on The Lord of the Rings in various capacities. He was also an additional editor working with the legendary editor, Michael Kahn, and director Steven Spielberg, on The Adventures of Tintin. I last spoke with Jabez when he edited Star Wars: Rogue One. Today we’re speaking with Jabez Olssen about editing the Peter Jackson documentary, The Beatles: Get Back which is airing now on Disney+.
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