Mother's Day

I spent Friday & Saturday editing Ashraf's video. It was a drag as Ashraf had employed two cameramen with Sony EX-1s. My camera is a three or four year old Sony V1. When the EX-1 came out there was a feeding frenzy to get rid of Z1s and V1s and go tapeless. Why? I could never figure it out. The picture quality is still HDV. The Sony SXS cards are way over priced. My camera uses tapes (not memory cards) which I label and keep in well named filing trays. Not only that my shot's are called "Ashraf's speech1" "Ashraf's speech2" while the EX-1 files are called something like "926.38794" "926.38795". Huh?

Transferring the Sony files to Final Cut Pro was another drag as each cameraman had shot about three hours. Yawn. Their shots were good - a little dark but the sound as awful. I hate editing other people's work!

Anyhow - it's done and sent to Ashraf. He is bound to want changes. No reply as yet.

Sunday was Mother's Day. We all met up and went to see the premiere of Peter Pan at the Ferry Terminal park. Hard to believe that Bill Dudley did all the costumes, the complicated set design and the 3-D graphics. The flying with the moving 3-D graphic of London is just amazing.