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 …
Tag: Anecdote
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 