NO MORE TRAINING!

One of the banes of being an editor, or a production company in general, is that you will, you must, you have to cut training videos. And people train on the most boring topics ever. Occasionally it's interesting. And so what I've been cutting, proofing, reproofing, recutting and going cross eyed over IS in fact interesting. But still, the repetition sucks.

For those of you who don't know, an editor can watch a sequence of action dozens upon dozens of times. This means we'll hear the sound dozens of dozens of times. Often in reverse, sometimes going forward in high speed. But we'll hear it constantly. We start to memorize scripts (not because we want to), we to unconsciously tap out the beat of the music with our foot, our fingers tapping in time as well. We can quote you better than you can. It's sick, and when you're punchdrunk, it's hilarious.

And the next day when you have to come in to see it again, you try not to scream. Groaning is permitted.

So I'm done with one training video, and am moving on to one that's not too interesting. Sigh.

When do I get to do my motion graphics homework? :/

Editors can spell, didn't anyoen tell you?

Ugh. Total face palm moment tonight. After 10 hours of work too, so it was a nice topper to the day!

I spelled Cincinnati wrong on a DVD menu. It's not spelled Cincinatti, didn't you know? Well DVD Studio Pro sure didn't!

At least it hasn't gone off to the duplicator's yet, so I can give the city it's due. BUT ONLY like 6 PEOPLE WILL SEE IT.

A professor of mine, bitch that she is, encourages us to spell something wrong in a project that we present to a client, so the client can "fix" it. Except this was supposed to be the Gold Master. Client is done fixing it ;)

Oh well. More DVDage later.

The first!

Of Maybe Many Posts!

I'm a film student stuck in Washington, DC, the city with a vast wasteland of FM radio. Currently, I'm working 2 part-time jobs, doing numerous freelance projects, and attending graduate school full time.

Clearly I have time enough for a blog you say!

I'm sure it will be amusing to read this, months from now, and say to myself "Oh, is THAT what I was thinking? Haha, surely I need therapy." And perhaps I will.

But for now, this will serve as musings on my projects, venting about dumb bosses, howling in laughter at dumb clients, and technical notes to myself on how the hell I managed to DO that thing that one time and how come I can't do it again, damnit.

May you all be slightly amused, or gain some insight herewith.