It's snowing outside so fuck it. Work can wait. I lived and worked in South Africa for most of my life having emigrated there from England in 1970 at age 5 and now do all of my editing for my South African clients sitting in a fairly comfortable chair in Youghal, on the Irish East …
Category: Anecdotes
The Postman Always Rings Twice
I've cut a lot of television in the last 7 years, and I mean a LOT! But my feature film editing resume has always been patchy at best. Starting in the early 90's when I cut a couple of French soft core porn films in South Africa on an Avid (which I still hate, both …
Why? Why on earth? Why on earth are editors still using FCP7? ?
Last Night a DJ (FCPX) Saved My Life
Just over a week ago my family and myself were involved in a home invasion. Unfortunately this is a reality of living in one of the most dangerous countries in the world, South Africa. It was late, almost 2am, the family was sleeping and I was working on finishing off a project that I needed …
Back to the Future
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Nightmare on Edit Suite 