The software that changed my life
By S Simmons. Filed in Editing, Mac software |
 Software that changed your life at James Fee GIS Blog
The above blog entry is a great idea for a… well… blog entry. It does what a great blog entry should do. It asks an interesting question gets you thinking about how the answer relates to your life and in turn get you to write a blog entry about it! After I read it, it got me thinking… what software changed my life?
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994: I think first on my list would be a tie between Quark Xpress and Adobe Photoshop. Way back before I was a Mac user I had the opportunity to attend graphic design school. A few days of the Mac and I was sold. And little did I know that the machine would change my life as well.
1996: Myself and a friend made a short film in an attempt to gain a scholarship to film school. I sat in a VHS tape to tape edit suite for a day and got very frustrated. The next day I ordered a Power Computing Macintosh clone with a Miro Motion DV 20 video card, AV rated hard drive and Adobe Premiere 4.2. We got the scholarship, went to film school and life changed forever.
1998: I was in the directing sequence at film school but I realized that it’s not easy just to walk out the door and be a director. Since I had so much fun editing the short I thought editing might be a good way to go so I enrolled in an editing class and was introduced to Avid Media Composer. I still use it at a number of post production facilities as well as it’s younger brother, Avid Xpress Pro, to this day.
1999: While trying to find the perfect editor to use at home, I went through Premiere 5.0, Radius Edit DV and even mulled getting a PC just to run Speed Razor, but none of them could compete with the work flow and refinement of Avid. Then came Apple’s Final Cut Pro 1.0. Apple had bought the app from Macromedia and I had anxiously been watching its development. The day it went on sale, I placed my order. And though it was, and still is, a different program, it’s about as Avid like as you can get.
2000 – 2001: At some point after upgrading to Final Cut Pro 2.0, I started getting calls from someone who knew an acquaintance of a friend or two who had heard I had been using Final Cut Pro for a while. After enough calls like that and late nights working freelance for those people, as well as my staff assistant editing job, I decided to take a chance and try freelancing. With Final Cut Pro coming on strong in the market and my newly honed Avid skills, I became self-employed. And that is where I remain today.
What software changed you life?
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