On October 12th the Edit Foundry was born. An idea of mine was to create a blog that focused solely on the aspect of editing. For the past twelve month I’ve created over 30 posts and discussed many topics. The site has had over 5,000 page views. Not bad for such a focused blog. As I enter year two I’m looking forward to many more posts. I hope you enjoy reading them and learn something along the way. Any maybe, just maybe you’ll re-learn something too.
As some of you know I’ve been teaching at Front Range Community College part time. I’ve known I wanted to teach ever since my first presentation way back in April of 2001 in Fargo, North Dakota. I’ve traveled to teach numerous times each year for the past 8 years. Now I do it once a week. Next year I’ll be teaching 3 times a week.
Ok, so why should you care? Something I’ve learned about teaching is in order to teach you have to learn and re-learn. Last year at Convergence 09 I taught Edit Theory. A ‘what’s editing and why’ 101 type of seminar. I had to study and read up a lot before giving that presentation. I had to re-learn so I could teach.
Now I’m teaching edit theory and Final Cut Pro in my video editing class at FRCC. I’m a solid editor in Final Cut. I learned probably a lot like many of you did. I got a few days training and the rest was up to me. I’ve known Final Cut for about 5 years now. Used it, then didn’t use it, then used it again. Last year when I got hired at KWGN I had to get back to using it. I went through a book from page one to remember everything again. While I went through the book I picked up a few ways to do things I never learned the first time around. I used many shortcuts, tool, and keyboard function I never used before.
So, I felt again pretty competent with Final Cut. When I got the job teaching video editing I got yet another book and start going through it from page one. Guess what? There is yet even more tools, functions, keyboard shortcuts I’m now using. I learned and re-learned.
So, this post isn’t so much about editing. It’s more about learning. If you’re here then you want to learn. I’ll teach you. I’ll give you everything I can. Maybe some of my post are to ‘101′ for you. But maybe if you go back and read them you’ll learn something old that’ll be new again.
Learn, learn and then go learn some more. Never stop learning. Keep growing. I am, as this blog will.
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