Yesterday I posted a video of Criss Angel from the 80’s and today I came across an interview where Criss mentions his adventure in editing video. It turns out that producing those music videos is how he learnt editing and it helped him later on while working on Mind Freak. Now that he’s almost in season 4 though, he basically has a whole team that does it for him now. Still interesting though how life works like that.

Read the full article at the LA Times.

Q: There is also editing. Have you become as familiar with the mechanics of television as you are with magic?

A: I’ve been incredibly familiar with directing and editing since I was in my teens, because I didn’t have the money to hire people to do that stuff for me. Some of my first music videos I directed and edited and did for $2,500 and favors to get edit rooms on off times. I was always familiar with that. In my first three TV specials I would spend on average 18 to 20 hours a day editing with the editor doing that. Now, we have gathered six or seven editors who are great and who have been with the show for a while and know how I think. So, I just go to my warehouse here in Las Vegas, and I have a facility where I am able to communicate in California and Las Vegas at the same time, and we do editing. That saves a lot of time, and I am able to oversee it but yet not be there.