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I'm the kinda person who when he gets something new, try's to be a genius and refuses to read the manual; then after hours going back and reading it only to figure out what I wanted to do should of taken 2minutes not 2 hours.

We started a shoot on friday around lunchtime for a student television commercial for one of our campuses sponsors. The shoot went well, the cast was amazing, but the travel to one of the locations was boring. We had planned to do a 6hour shoot in Sydney then a half an hour shoot 2hrs away on the central coast. We finished the shoot early meaning we got an earlier train.



On the train i had my recently purchased 9inch eee pc and wireless broadband and was looking for a hotel to book in a weeks time. The only time available for capturing into the HD suite at the campus was from 8:30pm-12pm So instead of getting home at 3 o'clock in the morning and going to Uni a few hours later was not going to work; so i figured I will book a hotel and stay in Sydney next to the campus. While looking for hotels online I had open of all sites the wonderful creativecow. After browsing through the fcp forums an idea came. Instead of spending hours logging and capturing in the HD sutie after hours and booking a hotel, Why not create a batch capture list?



The idea was great, being able to save time and MONEY! Thankfully on the train one of the crew members was also bored so I started a good old speadsheet in microsoft excel and starting writing a batch list while the crew called out the timecode and shot list. I spent about half an hour reading the fcp manual on how to write batch capture lists and just like that, I had saved heaps of time and money!

It pays to read the manual and go onto creative cow ;-)

Hi all, been a long time since my last entry at the end of last year.

For those who read my last blog know that I'm a student at JMC Academy in Sydney, Australia. Having recently just returned back to go for my Associate Degree in Digital Television it has given my a great deal of understanding of different proffesional views on the industry. We have new teachers all round pretty much and all of them quite young (about 25-30) and there knowledge in such a short time has definately given me a wider understanding of the industry. We have lecturers who care little about how a camera works and others who are willing to spend hours discussing post-production workflows. It has definately changed my perspective from last year, and I have realised that people arnt in the industry because they dont wanna work in a supermarket its because they have passion and care about our industry and where its heading.
To be told and reassured there are still plenty of jobs in these tough economic times is great, it seems we aren't hit as bad as the U.S. or the U.K.

Knowing that the chance of finding a full time job has definately boosted my passion for the industry and cannot wait to get out there in the REAL WORLD.

thanks for reading :)

p.s. should be doing more blogs over the coming weeks/months.