Walter Murch: The ‘Rule of Six’ in Film Editing from Imaginox (imaginox.co.uk) on Vimeo.

A clip of needs-no-introduction editor Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The English Patient) talking at an NFTS post-production symposium for the Imaginox Online Creative Academy of Film and Television. He’s sharing his ‘Rule of Six’—six criteria he uses to judge the worth, quality, and necessity of every cut he makes in the picture. Overall I think they actually apply quite well to sound editing and mixing as well, which, I guess, is not a huge surprise.