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Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title

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paddy_m ◴[20 Dec 25 20:29 UTC] No.46339357[source]▶
I wish more programmers would pay attention to how productive power users in different can be with their tools. Look at CAD competitions. I wonder if there are video editting competitions?
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colmmacc ◴[20 Dec 25 20:30 UTC] No.46339363[source]▶
The Oscars, The Golden Globes, the Emmys, just a few!
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1. chongli ◴[20 Dec 25 21:30 UTC] No.46339816[source]▶
Although they do have a category for best editing, it's hard to call it an award for "best film editor" when it doesn't control for the overall quality of the film. For example, with the Oscars, it's extremely common (2/3 of the time) for a film that wins best picture to also win best editing.
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2. anamexis ◴[20 Dec 25 21:38 UTC] No.46339870[source]▶
I wonder how you could construct a reasonably controlled competition for film editing.
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3. tshaddox ◴[20 Dec 25 22:51 UTC] No.46340406[source]▶
Perhaps that’s because Best Picture isn’t controlling for the effect that good editing has on the film.
4. toast0 ◴[20 Dec 25 23:41 UTC] No.46340781[source]▶
Drop 10 hours of footage to the competitors on day 0, assign judges random groups of completed films on day N.

Maybe let each editor request one reshoot in the first week, a committee aggregates similar requests, all editors get all the reshoots once they're finalized.

Maybe include storyboards and a rubrik for what story the film is supposed to share and how we're meant to feel, but maybe not.