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: final cut pro
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 …
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 …
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 …
Snow Day
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 …
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 …
Nightmare on Edit Suite 