Rough Cut to Final Cut

Here is how this works in practice. Rough-cut to final-cut edit for Irish feature films and prestige series operates in the long lineage of Nathan Nugent (Lenny Abrahamson's editor on Room, Normal People, Frank, What Richard Did, The Wonder), Mick Mahon (Banshees of Inisherin. Martin McDonagh), Una Ní Dhonghaíle (The Crown. The Irish editor working at the cinema-prestige global tier). Patricia Boucher (RTÉ feature documentary and drama), Stephen O'Connell (the today's Irish independent feature bench), Tony Cranstoun (Belfast, Branagh's autobiographical feature), and the rising bench of cinema-trained editors emerging through the Lir Academy Dublin, IADT Dún Laoghaire, and the Northern Ireland Film and Television School.

Here is the short of it. Edit rooms at Windmill Lane Dublin, Egg Post Dublin, Outpost Dublin, the Sound Department at Ardmore Studios, and Yellowmoon Belfast handle the bulk of Irish feature edit. With cross-border routing into London's Soho cutting-rooms (Goldcrest Post. Molinare) for prestige global co-productions and the Common Travel Area's seamless director–editor–producer movement across Dublin, Belfast, and London cutting sessions.

Here is the breakdown. Edit workflow runs Avid Media Composer (the cinema-prestige standard for Irish features and the de facto Avid-trained editor's tool of choice) with Adobe Premiere Pro covering the digital-first and commercial-features tier and DaVinci Resolve picking up the cinema-finishing end. Sessions progress through editor's assembly (the first rough pass cut against the director's notes). Director's cut (the focused narrative shaping pass mostly 2-3 weeks per feature). Producer's cut and financier's-cut rounds with rights-holder feedback.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Test-screening rounds at Light House Cinema Dublin or the IFI Cinema with audience-response cards. Picture-lock at the locked frame count for handoff to the VFX, sound, and finishing departments. Frame.io and Evercast support remote-joint work for Lenny Abrahamson, Martin McDonagh, Kenneth Branagh. John Carney. Yorgos Lanthimos (the Greek director who has worked with Element Pictures Dublin). Pat Collins, and the wider global director bench working on Irish-finished features. Picture-lock deliverables feed downstream to Egg Post, Windmill Lane, and Framestore Dublin VFX and color-finishing.

With AAF + EDL + XML round-trip preserving each edit decision frame-accurately for the conform stage.