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EP 12·Media & Culture·37m

Behind the Lens of the NFL

Tim Rumpff — Senior Producer, NFL Films

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What we actually thought about this one

This one was pure fun. Tim works on the footage that makes the NFL feel like a movie, and he explained how much of the emotion in those films comes from choices in editing and sound rather than from the game itself. He walked us through how a single play becomes a story, and now we can't watch a highlight package the same way. What surprised us was how much patience the job takes. Hours of footage for seconds of usable material. It made us feel better about how long it takes us to edit our own episodes, honestly.

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