Editors Use Super-Human Skills to Cut ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Down to Size

“Avengers: Infinity War” is stuffed with the largest number of superheroes ever to populate a movie.

Directed by brothers Anthony and Joe Russo, the 19th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe marks their third collaboration with editors Jeffrey Ford and Matthew Schmidt; they also cut “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” and “Captain America: Civil War.”Ford and Schmidt crafted the story using more than 900 hours of footage that emerged from 180 days of principal photography and another 100 days of second-unit work, most of which was shot using Imax cameras.“As the material came in, we would watch it together and then divide it up in order to make our rough assemblies,” says Ford.

“Then slowly, we’d start to care for certain sequences.

If Matt knew a little bit more about one sequence, he’d work on that while I worked on another.”The method served the duo well, and they

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