Inside the world of film and TV music editors

August 14, 2007 Perhaps even more incredible, considering the transient nature of employment in Hollywood, over the past 19 years one man has been keeping track of every one of those takes -- music editor Chris Ledesma. Keeping track of accumulated music is just one of the roles that can fall to a film or television music editor, a position crucial in the scoring process but one that is little understood to those outside recording studio control rooms and dub stages. A music editor's work combines an artistic sense of music and picture with high-level technological knowledge and some uncanny organizational skills.

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