I'm 51 years old in a physical sense, in that I was born 51 years ago. Mentally I'm nowhere near as old. The wife says 18 but I like to think I'm not the arsehole I was at 18 but more the child of 19 or 20. I was much nicer then. I helped that …
Author: JayceCuts
I am a video editor working in the television and film industry.
Striving to do better every day.
The Big Sleep
Apologies to my small band of weary followers for the lack of comms but life has been fucking crazy these past few months. The reason for my being incommunicado was the fact that I have been working damn hard, (actually that's a lie I've been working fucking hard) on being back in business for myself …
A Hard Days Night
And I've been working like a dog. Today I finished the 74th episode of television I have edited so far this year. 13 x 48 minutes of Ayeye in FCP7 13 x 24 minutes of Tempy Pushas in FCPX 26 x 23 minutes of BnB in FCPX 13 x 48 minutes of It's Complicated in …
Serenity
i love new technology. I especially love it if it saves time and energy. I am a big fan of the software that #digitalrebellion make. I have many of the products, #cutnotes being my favorite but I also use the #promaintenancetools which is incredibly useful for editors. The reason I bring this up is I am …
Love Actually
So Apple have just launched 10.2 of FCPX. Wow 15 versions in 3 years I think it is and that is some achievement especially as every time they launch a new version there are massive changes and also some not so massive changes. Yes we still want audio roles and subroles and switching off the …
A Good Day to Die Hard
I have never stayed in one place longer than two years. I have always moved on to a new thing. I started my work life as a sound engineer working on radio at the age of 18. Within 6 months I had resigned to start working for a company that offered me more opportunities. I …
The hills have eyes
Well I was fortunate enough this year to be nominated in two separate categories for editing in the South African Film and Television Awards, the South African equivalent of the BAFTAs and the Oscars etc. The categories were Best Editing in a TV Drama and Best Editing in a TV Soap. And I got lucky …
The Butler
I have just put the finishing touches of my cut of episode 5 of the TV Show Ayeye which is to be broadcast in 2 weeks on DSTV's youth channel Vuzu Amp. It's a 48 minute drama with lots of dialogue. It's centered around 3 mid 20 year old boys (read playas) who work in …
Superman Returns
So... FCPX when it was launched was an absolute pig of a programme. Even the legend that is Walter Murch was going "what the fuck?" when it was launched a few years ago. I have been cutting on non-linear systems since 1994. I was the very first editor in South Africa to edit a TV …
Toy Story 1, 2 & 3
It should come as no surprise to the people that know me that I like the shiny. Especially when it comes to toys that I can use to improve the way I work. At heart I am extremely lazy, it's true. It's just that I happen to work really hard to be as lazy as …
Birth of a Nation
So it's nearing the end of 2014 and Apple have had 2 major upgrades in the last 12 months, there's new iPads and iMacs and let's not for get the gorgeous trashcan that is the MacPro. I went for a new iMac. I bumped up the cpu and the grafix card and am waiting on …
Our House
House Keeping! As a post production supervisor part of my job is to institute workflow processes that allow for a smooth and easy post production experience. And no two are alike. Probably the most important aspect of any job is making sure that all your files are in order. A place for my stuff as …
Sound and Vision
Hi there This is just a quick post based on a conversation I overheard between 2 video editors just the other day. The conversation was centered on delivering audio to final mix and in particular the question "how many channels of audio should I be sending to the final mix engineer?" was raised. The more …
First Cut
As this will be my first real post under this persona I thought it would be best to just give you a little history ( I have another blog which is way too ranty and sweary for this forum). This then is the who, what, where and why of Jayce. And I guess that would …
Hello and Welcome
Hi thereThanks for dropping by. This is just to say hello and as it is midnight while I'm doing this and have an important edit in the morning, that'll be it for now. However I do intend to update often on a variety of things about life (and death) in the edit suite. From anecdotes …
Nightmare on Edit Suite 