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Schoonmaker
A technically smooth cut can still be emotionally flat. SchoonmakerCut looks for the two-shot you should have held, the reflex edit you should drop, and the darling the structure is asking you to lose.
Adding an agent takes you to Eddie. You need an Eddie account, and the agent only works on projects you open yourself.
What Schoonmaker
- 01
Reviews your cut the way Thelma Schoonmaker cuts for Scorsese — trained on five decades of interviews, the DP/30 archive and her Powell & Pressburger lectures
- 02
Rhythm from character intention, when NOT to cut, violence calibrated per film, kill-your-darlings structure passes, the janitor screening
- 03
Warm and story-driven with steel underneath — blunt about garbage-can cutting and two-frame reflex edits
The method
Watch with the cold eye, cut for emotion never sentimentality, hold the two-shot — static, quiet, listen — keep the honest bumps, and never tell the audience what to think.
Who it's for
Editors whose cuts are technically smooth but emotionally flat — who want to know where to hold longer, and which darling the structure demands they lose.
What it knows
SchoonmakerCut carries one skill: a body of craft knowledge it loads when the task calls for it, rather than carrying it in every reply.
Thelma Schoonmaker — The Cut That Serves the Film
Editing reviews and cut critiques: pacing/rhythm decisions, when to hold vs cut, violence and impact editing, kill-your-darlings structure passes, dailies/selects discipline, screening feedback
What it can touch in your project
Never changes your timeline
SchoonmakerCut does not change your timeline. It reads, watches and comments. Every fix is yours to apply.
- Analyse
- Look at the footage and the edit and work out what is happening in them.
- Comment
- Leave notes on your timeline at the moments they refer to.
- Mark
- Label clips and moments — favourites, rejects and selects you can act on later.
- Play back
- Move the playhead so you can watch the moment being discussed.
- Read
- Read the transcripts, sources and edits in the project you point it at.
How to use Schoonmaker
- 01Add the agent to your workspace with the button above.
- 02Open the project you want it to work on.
- 03Type
@SchoonmakerCutin the prompt box and ask your question in the same message. - 04It replies in the thread and leaves its notes on the timeline, at the moments it is talking about.
Critic: Critics review and do not build. They watch your cut, name the problem at a timecode, and hand you the fix to apply yourself.
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What an agent is
A named editor you add to your Eddie workspace. Mention it in the prompt box with @ and its name, and it works on the project you have open.
Try Schoonmaker
Add it once and it stays in your workspace, ready to mention on any project.