When I started down the road of Non-Linear editing it was on an EMC2. It was 1994 and the TV Show I was cutting was shot on 16mm film, transferred to Betacam with all the relevant Keycode details etc and then dumped to Low Band U-Matic where the footage was then transferred to optical drives. …
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You Only Live Twice
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Home Alone
It's a new year and usually this means me getting my pooh in a pile and doing some catch up on the things I haven't had time to do in the big end of year rush, like updating my website, writing new blog posts, cleaning up the office, cleaning out the Trash Bin on the …
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 