Road Editor

Halperin screened his work in progress at colleges and festivals and edited on the road with a 1 Beyond DVPro 3215 laptop.

Author and filmmaker Ian Halperin shot his latest documentary, His Highness Hollywood, a film about the plight of struggling actors, “undercover,” using a Sony PD150 camera. He then edited and re-edited the piece dozens of times, he claims, on a laptop — a 1 Beyond DV Pro 3215 system bundled with Adobe Premiere Pro v. 1.5.

During the movie's editing phase earlier this year, Halperin toured the country, giving lectures and screening His Highness Hollywood as a work in progress at colleges and festivals. During his travels, he decided, “to do the whole [editing] thing myself on the road,” using the 1 Beyond's PC-based turnkey remote editing systems.

“What was cool was the fact that I was bringing the laptop to screenings and reworking the movie and trying out different pieces of footage for different audiences,” he says. “I was sort of like the Grateful Dead of filmmaking. They never played the same set twice, and I never played the same exact movie for anybody. I had over 100 hours of total footage, and about 120GB of memory on the laptop, plus more on an external drive. So, I just FireWired the whole thing from the Sony camera and kept editing as I traveled around.”