Here's a list of the things I use in my editing/techying:
Final Cut (j'adore!)
Audacity
MacBook Pro (Broken at the moment, so having to use my regular old PC, and my friend's Mac Pro)
Soundplant (I love this program so so much!)
iOmega 1TB external harddrive
And for the moment while my mac is broken, Adobe Premier. It's alright and all that, but I much prefer Final Cut. It just feels easier to use!
I shall add more as and when I use them!
Saturday 11 September 2010
Friday 10 September 2010
An Introduction
Hi there! I'm Ryan, and this blog is my attempt at documenting my development as a Video Editor, and also whatever other technical roles are thrown at me! I'm also going to occasionally post more personal entries about my life, and if anything else takes my fancy, then I'll post that too!
Editing has always been my primary interest, but I've recently started discovering I can branch out a little and not feel like I'm having an affair. I recently acted as a Sound Technician for a theatre production of The Wizard of Oz. I sourced all the sound effects, and edited them to mine and the director's liking. I also edited some of the songs using Audacity, cutting out the middle part of one because a dance number was cut - this involved basically finding a point where I could splice the two parts together without it being obvious to anyone else that there was a blatant break in the track. I also edited and looped a piece of music, to act as incidental music during set changes. I was pretty happy with the work I did on this piece.
During the production itself I used an awesome piece of software called Soundplant. Each keyboard press corresponded to a different audio track, so I had the numbers line of the keyboard representing the backing track songs for act 1, the qwerty row being songs for act two, asdf line being sound effects for act 1, and zxcv being sound effects for act 2. Incidental music was assigned to delete, end, and page down. So all I had to do was follow the script during the performance, and press the associated button as it was written in my script. Pretty simple and really fun too! There were a couple of moments where precise timing was needed, so I would keep my finger on the button and wait for a visual cue from the stage instead.
In the end I was proud of my work, and I was asked to do the sound work for all the company's future productions. It may not have been video editing, which I love, but it felt similar, like maybe editing's half brother Steve. I just hope the next production has slightly better songs! Aside from the songs everybody knows from The Wizard of Oz (rainbow, yellow brick road, if I only had X), the music is kind of awful. People forget, but those songs predate the second World War! That's insanely old for a musical. Especially one that's still popular!
Anyway, end of my first post!
Editing has always been my primary interest, but I've recently started discovering I can branch out a little and not feel like I'm having an affair. I recently acted as a Sound Technician for a theatre production of The Wizard of Oz. I sourced all the sound effects, and edited them to mine and the director's liking. I also edited some of the songs using Audacity, cutting out the middle part of one because a dance number was cut - this involved basically finding a point where I could splice the two parts together without it being obvious to anyone else that there was a blatant break in the track. I also edited and looped a piece of music, to act as incidental music during set changes. I was pretty happy with the work I did on this piece.
During the production itself I used an awesome piece of software called Soundplant. Each keyboard press corresponded to a different audio track, so I had the numbers line of the keyboard representing the backing track songs for act 1, the qwerty row being songs for act two, asdf line being sound effects for act 1, and zxcv being sound effects for act 2. Incidental music was assigned to delete, end, and page down. So all I had to do was follow the script during the performance, and press the associated button as it was written in my script. Pretty simple and really fun too! There were a couple of moments where precise timing was needed, so I would keep my finger on the button and wait for a visual cue from the stage instead.
In the end I was proud of my work, and I was asked to do the sound work for all the company's future productions. It may not have been video editing, which I love, but it felt similar, like maybe editing's half brother Steve. I just hope the next production has slightly better songs! Aside from the songs everybody knows from The Wizard of Oz (rainbow, yellow brick road, if I only had X), the music is kind of awful. People forget, but those songs predate the second World War! That's insanely old for a musical. Especially one that's still popular!
Anyway, end of my first post!
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