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: Hints and Tips
Here are some short helpful hints and tips I have discovered in the edit suite along the way.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Nightmare on Edit Suite 