#25 Wk17 - Final Cut Pro

This is the first week of the Final Cut Pro module. Tuesday night was a special topic class, separate form the module.Our speaker was Robert Patton Spruill, director of Squeeze and a documentary on Public Enemy which is in final production.He brought some fresh perspective on how to live your life as an independent filmmaker. I also appreciated his perspective on the program at CDIA versus, Emerson College, where he teaches as well.Federico Muchnik, the video program director is our instructor for the Final Cut Pro module. He has an easygoing style that he uses effectively to cut through all the mucky details and focuses specifically on the need-to-know stuff for filmmakers. We're covering a lot of ground in a short time, the point is that we'll do the real learning once we start cutting. I cover the things I think are most important to the editing workflow.Somehow I got into a rant about archiving files. It's definitely something you need to consider before you get to far into a project. Finally I bring up an important point about capturing video. Don't capture video to an external drive connected via USB. Just don't.