I call myself an editor. But my job title is “Media Producer” right now, which is another way of saying that I have to do everything. I cut, make graphics, mix and grade. From time to time I’m even on shoots, shooting, swinging a boom, running and data wrangling, but thankfully that’s only once every six months or so. But I think it’s fair to say that the traditional editor’s job description went out the window a long time ago… I’m fine with that. I know that the thing that I love, the thing that I’m good at, is editing. I’m an editor. But now, to stay employed, I have to know about everything else.<\/p>\n
I’ve never had any real training for any of this. I had a couple of days on FCP 7, but that was just “where the buttons are” training, not “how to construct an edit”. Valuable in its own way, sure, but nothing I couldn’t have figured out for myself. And besides, I don’t use FCP 7 anymore.<\/p>\n
The way I’ve learned every bit of software I’ve ever used, is to use it. I’ve had people show me things, but more often than not, I’ve looked things up in a manual, or watched some demo online (thank you LAFCPUG<\/a>). At the beginning of this year, I saw a demo at the Broadcast Video Expo of DaVinci Resolve, which was clearly a step up from the grading I’d been doing up until then. Since then I’d been waiting for a side-project to appear that let me really play with it, but without a horrible looming deadline and a client standing over my shoulder, and finally last month it came along.<\/p>\n Charity Shop Sue is a five-episode web series about (funnily enough) the staff of a charity shop in Nottingham, led by the titular Sue. Here’s the first episode;<\/p>\n