Since I enjoyed the first film production seminar at hit the Wild Rivers Film Festival, I decided to attend the second Post Production panel discussion. Dan Springen carried much of the discussions, but Scott Brock chipped in on occasion to discuss what it was like editing for Martin Scorsese. I was pleased that both med use Adobe Premiere pro for the bulk of their editing. There is another program called Da Vinci which is good at color correcting and similar tasks. Eve Annemberg was also up front, but she had to leave early to catch a plane back home.
Besides the people on the panel it seemed that many in the audience were professional editors, which penned up some lively discussions about the evolution of film editing software. Final Cut Pro was a great program for a while but the. The software engineers dumbed down the interface to make it more like iMovie. Professional film editors dropped the program like a lead brick.
A local school teacher named Kimberly was attending. She had used Final Cut Pro for a school project and wanted clarification as to what was wrong with the program. I think you can get any program to work if you are persistent and stubborn. I got to chat with Kimberly at just about every filmmaker event and she made my stay in the Pacific North West such a pleasure. She had worked with Christo when he created a huge series of gates in New York’s’ Central Park that were wrapped in bright orange fabric. I remember seeing images at the time.