Freelance broadcast TV Cameraman / Video Editor. Member of @GTC_TV with 38+ years experience working in television
Manchester, England
Joined May 2014
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Video to edit on Monday, filmed by another crew. So overnight download of 45GB of footage. An hour this morning, importing, organising, keywords, and MultiCam synced.
These used to be fun to design and build. Especially when someone else is paying for it! P2 into FCP7, apple cinema screen, and full frame output to REC709 broadcast monitor + genlec speakers. Even the desks were custom built.
Yesterday’s Shoot/edit news piece. Referred to in UK as the ..and Finally…the story of one man who walked for 28 years from Chile, back to his hometown in England
Ian hunter retweeted
Its not gone... if you want that type of editing, well- you deserve it!
Nearly 40 years of video editing for broadcast TV News, and no it’s never actually been particularly glamorous
When you’re doing a story about air pollution from traffic, but don’t want to show vehicles number plates,
Then you need to throw the background out-of-focus. And a long lens really helps
Today’s Filming & Editing assignment
UK unemployment rate falls as number of vacancies available drops
channel4.com/news/unemployme…
4 decades as a TV News Cameraman & Video Editor has led to so many amazing opportunities. No 2 days are ever the same. This was a whole day with the RAF, on one of the last flights of a Shackleton
So this is what AI thinks a coffee filled, veteran TV Cameraman / Video Editor, who is currently learning español, looks like. 🤣 not bad first attempt
