According to his book "In the Blink of an Eye", Walter Murch took nearly two years to edit the movie, with an average of 1.47 cuts a day. The workprint was reportedly over 5 hours, but eventually edited back to 3 hours for the Cannes Film Festival premiere, and further cut down to 147 minutes for the 1979 theatrical version. Contrary to popular belief, these versions were never censored for political content by studio mandate; director Francis Ford Coppola had final cut, but chose to leave out scenes he had doubts about. He also shortened the movie on studio advice, since he had co-financed it with his own money and hoped that a shorter run-time would increase its commercial potential. In 2001, he admitted that he had cut away too much, and re-edited the film into a 196-minute 'Redux' version by adding 49 minutes of new footage that he felt the world was now ready to see. But in 2019, Coppola again re-evaluated the movie and decided to remove 21 minutes of footage from the Redux version. So the 175-minute 'Final Cut', released in 2019 during the film's 40th anniversary, is shorter than the Redux version, but still substantially longer than the theatrical version.

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