Well, I will be by 10 am tomorrow as that’s when the teacher comes in to lock picture. But when you have your own schedule, it’s hard to finally say, “this is it, the film is done.” Each time I watch Cubicles I find something to tweak or adjust. I’ll be glad to have the [...]

I’m not exactly feeling too well today, so I’ll just write about five keyboard shortcuts I found to be the most useful during the editing process.

‘J-K-L’ - Easy Playback - Typically I’ll have my right hand on the mouse and left hand over J-K-L on the keyboard. These three keys allow me to easily move [...]

I left for the Film School Thursday night at 11 and didn’t come home until 6pm this afternoon, thus surviving my first Film School sleep over. It wasn’t that I had procrastinated working on Cubicles, I just got into the editing zone and wanted to get as much done as possible before my second cut [...]

“…always present your best cut.” That was probably one of the more useful pieces of advice I got from Editing Professor Bill after I screened the first cut of Cubicles yesterday to him and Editing Professor Sandro.
I felt the screening went pretty well. As always with critique, you have to filter out the genuine issues [...]

This will be a fairly short post because I have a lot of work to do today. Right now I’m on a search for B-roll - any footage that will support or better illustrate the documentary.
I mentioned the Prelinger Archives before, but now I’ve finally had time to dig through it and I’ve found some [...]

Yesterday’s editing went quite well. I’ve got a 6:50 Thought Cut, so at least there’s something to show. But it’s far from over. I’m not too happy with the way that cut went, but going through the footage led me to another core idea that I might try today. Here are some more thoughts I [...]

I left The Film School around 2:30 after some late night editing. I’m extremely happy that I can finally say audios to Avid and work with the far superior Final Cut Pro (FCP). However, I’m still a loyal Adobe Premiere fan, and after some footage capture hickups1 yesterday I still stand behind them. Unfortunately, I [...]

I have five hours of footage (300 minutes) spanning seven tapes that I must now whittle down into one amazing seven minute documentary. It’s definitely intimidating. I think it’s worse than trying to find a needle in a haystack because I don’t care if I don’t find the needle and no one’s going to criticize [...]

…and I haven’t nearly posted all I wanted to about F1s. To the invisible reader: force all your emotion into asking questions in comments about what I should explain, Patrick Swayze style.
We actually locked last week, I just never got around to posting it. What is ‘picture lock?’ The editing is done. You’ve arranged all [...]