30th December 2011

Very pleased and honoured to be sitting on the editing jury for the Watersprite film festival this year (http://www.watersprite.org.uk). The festival itself runs from 24th to 26th February and is well worth attending if you are in or near Cambridge. The closing speaker this year will be the David Yates (director of the final four Harry Potter films).

14th December 2011

Overnight viewing figures for the Alan Yentob Imagine programme (Books: The Final Chapter?) were 1.2 million - second only to This is England '88.

10th October 2011


After a month in a very hot and humid Qatar, editing TV content for their National Day celebrations, Adam has started work on Alan Yentob’s Imagine series for BBC Glasgow. He’ll be doing both the off-line and on-line edit, as well as grading, so it’s going to be a busy few weeks.

29th August 2011


Dimensions (www.dimensionsthemovie.com) is now completed - all bar the shouting (well, film-out anyway) . It’s been a great project to work on, with a skilled and dedicated team who have managed to mix hard work with a family atmosphere. I have enjoyed every minute.

8th August 2011

Adam has confirmed as editor on a major project for Qatari television.

1st March 2011


Adam has completed picture lock on Dimensions (www.dimensionsthemovie.com). Of course, there is plenty of work still to do as grading and title/credit sequences are still being carried out in-house. The Senate is doing the VFX work, which will need to be incorporated, and sound will be married once audio post is completed in Los Angeles.

11th August 2010


Congratulations to Adam and Ania on the birth of their first baby, Benjamin, today at 5.50pm.

26th July 2010


Filming starts today on Dimensions (www.dimensionsthemovie.com). BlaknBlu have designed a custom workflow for this feature film removing the need for a dedicated DIT on-set. Specially written software automatically copies digital rushes to two RAID hard discs, allowing for the failure of three of the four drives without loss of data. The custom software ensures that no data can be overwritten by placing each copy into dated and timed folders on the drives, before timecode stamping any non-timecode (e.g. Canon 5D Mk II) footage, adding a reel name based on the shooting day, and transcoding the footage to Apple’s ProRes 422 (HQ) for editing.

On-set logging of video and sound clip data and the Script Supervisor notes is being handled by BlaknBlu’s custom Filemaker database, running on MacBook Pros and iPads.

Adam is then able to take converted rushes straight into the edit suite and access the logging data immediately.

11th June 2010


Adam Garstone is attached to edit the period drama Dimensions: A Line, A Loop, A Tangle of Threads, the Directorial debut of award winning art director Sloane U’Ren (Batman Begins, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Being John Malkovich etc.). http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1703231