Hello?  hello?  anyone there? ...   Oh well. 

So I now have a blog.  I don't know exactly how this blog will work out, or if anyone will ever find it, but the idea is to blog about stuff I'm working on, and perhaps comments on what's going on in the editing/animation world.

Something banged.  Big time.

In the beginning there was the Big Bang.  Actually maybe it wasn't. Physicists haven't quite worked out what happened at the Big Bang yet, and are even discussing options for what may or may not have been before.

13.72 billion years later in 1999 I left the Surrey Institute of Art & Design University College (yeah, they're really called that now) in Farnham, Surrey.

 

A bird. They all look the same to me.

My first job was with RGB Post (now defunct) largely making films for birdwatchers..  plus the odd online for Channel 4.   I started the day after handing in my final work at college, and it was a great learning experience, in particular for doing online editing.

I was a junior editor there for a few months over the summer, but then their senior editor (Justin Badger) left for adventures in America!  Or possibly to get married.  So I took over his job.  Ultimately RGB Post was a tiny company, and the good editing jobs were far and few in between.  Which meant more time spend on bird watching videos...

I went freelance by the end of the year.  I worked for a whole ton of companies, some of which I don't remember, and most of the rest no longer exist (including LITV, Frontierpost, Frontline Television, York Films and Bullseye Television)

I worked here. Then they went bust.

I started editing on Avid Media Composer version 4.6 if I remember correctly.  That's 4.6 in the old system before they reset back to 1.0 after getting up to version 10 or 11.  I'm still going strong on Avid, although I also worked on Final Cut Pro for quite a few years.  Now that Apple has decided to kill off FCP (Steve Jobs moves in mysterious ways, dead or alive)  I'm back to Avid full-time!  Never found FCP as good as Avid, but that may just be because I knew Avid so well before I started with FCP.



The last few years I've tried to move over into graphics and animation, and that's probably what I'll focus mostly on in this blog.  Although I still spend more time editing than doing animation.

Bit of fun animation I did over Xmas a few years ago with my nieces:

The Asthmatic Dragon from Jon Bagge on Vimeo.


Jon