Post Fifth Pictures

For the past few months I have been working at “Yo Gabba Gabba!” on Season 4 as one of the in house editors. It’s been very interesting to be on the show. One thing that you forget about while being on staff at a place is what is going on in “the outside world.” I just realized today that Avid has their big announcement/webcast tomorrow and just signed up.

We are using Mac Pros that are a few years old; they work just fine.

Some of our machines are using FCP 6; it works just fine.

One of my biggest gripes with the industry is hype.

While hype can motivate an individual to do a good job, to take action or to do something noteworthy, in my opinion, hype causes a lot more stress in the workplace than it is worth.

On most of the projects I have been on, when we have a deadline and we aren’t sure what kind of footage we will get from production, there tends to be a lot of hype. When I say hype, I mean the worrying, the stressing and the emotional disaster that comes from the fear of the unknown.

I’m guilty of this myself, but I notice when I tell myself “whatever it is, it will be fine” we usually get out at a decent hour and we have good results. Too much hype can lead to rushing, doing work improperly and not backing up correctly. Building your editorial staff’s confidence by going over workflows in downtime, experimenting ideas or running tests is what should be going on, not overthinking the amount of work.