When I started down the road of Non-Linear editing it was on an EMC2. It was 1994 and the TV Show I was cutting was shot on 16mm film, transferred to Betacam with all the relevant Keycode details etc and then dumped to Low Band U-Matic where the footage was then transferred to optical drives. …
Category: Anecdotes
You Only Live Twice
When I got the time to write this post the title that immediately sprung to mind was The Postman Always Rings Twice as it’s more appropriate however I had written a post with that title a while back so have to live with my second choice as above. What prompted this repeated use of the …
True Memoirs of an International Assassin
Some days I love my job. Some days I fucking hate it with a loathing passion and want to give it all up and be a fucking bus driver. Don’t knock it bus drivers earn good money and I’d still be sitting on my ass all day. Going round and round. But today I love …
Safety Not Guaranteed
I work remotely from a small seaside town on the East Coast of Ireland. Much of my work is from clients in South Africa. I currently am supplying 3 episodes of Scripted Television for a couple of shows on a weekly basis. In between all that I have a couple of local Irish short films …
The Wheelman
I fucking love travelling. We have done so little of it in the last few years thanks to The Covid, but I fucking love it. I love the panic of leaving the house wondering if I have my passport, my iPad, my AirPods, my watch (I just left that behind in an X-Ray tray at …
Contagion
Gosh, how time has flown by. Last time I write anything we were at the start of the lockdown and as I write this Ireland is only now really beginning to open up again, 18 months later. This really has been a thing. Anyway an awful loot has happened in this time away from you …
Outbreak
The new buzz words of the day are self isolating and social distancing. Something picture editors are very good at. As I write this we are day 14 into our self imposed exile here in Ireland. Schools have been shut for almost 2 weeks and pubs and restaurants for about the same time. Funny thing …
Apollo 13
I loved the film Apollo 13. The claustrophobic, never sure if they gonna make it suspense was brilliant. But what struck me the most was that they had to basically construct a duplicate version of the space module and recreate the problem on earth so they could figure out how to fix it in space …
Captain Underpants
Or more accurately My Continuing Adventures Using The Underpants Of DOOM aka Premiere Pro I'm not averse to change, nearly four years ago at the age of 52 I dragged my wife of 17 years and 2 of my 3 children aged 12 and 15 and our dog Pixie all the way from the south …
Killing Them Softly
Or more accurately How Adobe Premiere Pro will be the death of me. I am an FCPX editor. I fucking love the freedom of X. But I have recently been forced into moving to Premiere. Anyone who has read the previous posts on my experience in working with a Avid after so many years will …
Peggy Sue Gets Married
So it's been a month of Avid. And while I have gotten better at finding things I have become much faster and more proficient as a result. The biggest timesaver was discovering that I was able to switch of select filler in the timeline when grabbing stuff. Result! So how are things really after a …
Baby Driver
Well, I made it. And by that I mean I survived 2 weeks of very intense Avid editing. On a very intense show. Having not touched Avid since the mid 1990s it was always going to be intense. So without further ado here below be my experience over the last 2 weeks of intensity. But …
Back to the Future !!!
Yes it's been a year since I last posted and yes a fuck load has gone on. Currently life is getting even more exciting as we move once again but this time to the real world where internet speeds are back to normal. Hooray. About bloody time. A year of dealing with 16 meg speeds …
Back to the Future II
I live in Ireland and work in South Africa which means I rely on a solid internet backbone and decent speeds. We have had to move out of our rented house as the owners wanted to move back in after 2 years of living in France. We had good internet and a decent workspace, plenty …
Home Alone 2
No sooner had I sat down and updated everything when the bug bit and I finally legitimised my blog and splashing out some cash on a premium contract. Added a gallery and updated some of the info. And while I was updating my gallery/Slideshow I realised that in all my travels I have lost so …
Nightmare on Edit Suite 