DONE!

Well, I went to KOMU last Monday and things went pretty fine. I had gone there the day before just to familiarize myself with the Avid functions on KOMU computers. And it helped to relieve the stress that I had before about the possible complexity of KOMU’s avid program and the whole process of importing videos.

On Monday I woke up a bit early, had my breakfast and then left home at around 10 a.m. I made sure that I was psychologically ready for it. It was a windy day and not the type of weather that you would like or expect to bring good things! But everything went pretty fine and I was done two or three minutes before the deadline was over. I was just pissed off by the shakiness of the video. It really made it hard sometimes to want to capture even two seconds of unshaken and usable video. So, it made me to examine a lot of the clips and make sure that I had imported enough good videos. I was especially frustrated why there weren’t some good detailed shots that would help as transitions between one setting to another and most importantly to help one avoid jump cuts! But anyway, I decided to do the best of what I could in that limited time of one hour with the b-rolls I had. And I was happy at the end to see that things worked out, again, as I said, despite the not-so-high quality of the videos available.  Once I managed to edit the package on time and get Randy’s approval for it, then I took a more relaxed approach to do the iNews and VO scripting. It also went pretty fine and at the end I was happy with the outcome of my efforts.

I know that one needs to be a fast, and yet careful, editor. And the key to doing that is practice. I am hoping that by the time I finish the KOMU shifts and my B2 class, I will have good editing skills and be hopefully, a fast editor. But don’t forget carefulness and preciseness! 

Let's see how my first shift tomorrow will go!