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 …
Tag: behind the scenes
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Nightmare on Edit Suite 