This crazy idea that I can make a go of this filmmaking life lurched further along the road to fulfilment this week when I ordered my splendid new Apple Mac based Editing System.
I’m hootling with excitement, but at the same time, not allowing myself to get too carried away – it’s a lot of commitment on my part so I really do have to put all the hours in to make it work. Greetings and Tolerance should be excellent testing grounds for me to work out some of the finer details of the new system.
I was a bit nervous about shifting over to Final Cut Pro, but reading through the manual has not only allayed my fears, but possibly inspired me to believe that FCP may well be better than Avid (***shock***).
I shall wait and see – the system should be here by the end of next week (with any luck), by which time I should have a reasonably fine cut of Alligator to pass over to Pete Brown who’s doing the music (though I’m still struggling with the cafe scene – but I shall prevail!).
And then it’s on with Greetings…
5 comments
Disgusted Tunbridge Wells says:
December 1, 2006 at 4:57 pm (UTC 1 )
Was that you filming in Costas on Sunday?
Steve says:
December 1, 2006 at 6:01 pm (UTC 1 )
Andy, any chance you’ll lay all the specs of your system on us? Hardware, and software outside of FCP you anticipate using? Maybe I’m the only one geeky enough to be interested, but, well, I am.
Sarthak says:
December 3, 2006 at 3:40 pm (UTC 1 )
Eagerly awaiting your review of Avid Vs FCP…
Andy Coughlan says:
December 6, 2006 at 4:48 pm (UTC 1 )
Ummm… no.
Andy Coughlan says:
December 6, 2006 at 4:51 pm (UTC 1 )
I went for the 24″ iMac so I could edit/view HD without having to buy a new monitor as well…
2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM – 2x1GB
NVIDIA GEFORCE 7600 GT w/256
250GB Serial ATA Drive
SuperDrive 8X (DVDR-DL/CD-RW)
Up the geeks!