cutting room
Film editor's workspace
A cutting room is where film editors work, splicing and assembling footage into a finished movie.
The phrase appears most often in cutting room floor, referring to material removed during editing: That scene ended up on the cutting room floor.
By extension, anything cut from a project—a chapter from a book, a verse from a song—may land on the figurative cutting room floor.
Recorded video material
- dailiesUnedited film prints
- outtakesUnused recorded material
- rough cutUnfinished film version
- final cutApproved version for release
splice · reel · montage · sequence · scene · take · post-production · blooper
Woven or knit material
- patternRecurring arrangement or template
- scissorsPivoted twin-blade cutter
- seamstressOne who stitches garments
- tailorClothing alteration professional
mannequin · measurements · chalk · muslin · draping · laying out · grain · selvage
footage
Recorded video material
final cut · splice · reel · montage · sequence · scene · take · post-production · blooper · editor
fabric
Woven or knit material
- patternRecurring arrangement or template
- scissorsPivoted twin-blade cutter
- seamstressOne who stitches garments
tailor · mannequin · measurements · chalk · muslin · draping · laying out · grain · selvage · notch
- fashion industryfashion, fashion design, fashion designers, fashion shows, fashion week
- film industryfilm studios, film production, film distribution, Hollywood, Bollywood
- film editingediting, film editing, cut, editor, splice
- meatpackingslaughterhouse, meatpacker, abattoirs, meatpacking plant, packing house
- editingediting, cut, copy, paste, delete
- early cinemakinetoscope, cinematograph, bioscope, silent film, nickelodeon
cutting roomsoundstage
Indoor film production space
film set · sound stage · production floor · backlot · location shoot
cutting roomadding
Joining to increase
expanding · lengthening · increasing · assembling · compiling