Ralph Schaafsma

So on Friday last week we finished editing our Parcour item, it was quite a bitch to make seeing that we had not enough good footage and filler shots. We had to make a lot of comprimises, like leaving out an entire interview, but the results are good enough for a first item. I pretty much understand Final Cut now to the point where I can edit stuff pretty quick, it’s a nice enough program once you get used to it, however it was somewhat difficult because I’ve never fully used a mac before. Basically I could do the editing I did for this item within a day instead of the week or whatever that we ‘needed’ now.

I was glad to hear that the audio I recorded on the scene as ‘the audio-guy’  was pretty good. Next to an occasional windgust or scream in the background (which was actually me) the audio was fine.

The only thing that busts my balls in Final Cut is that it seems that the audio can only be moved by frames so it’s impossible to line up music. Now I’m pretty sure there’s an option somewhere to do it more precisely but still it was quite a bitch.