Listen To The City Breathe: Episode Three: 26

It seems that there are several different options out there for editing video and film. The two dominant ones appear to be Final Cut Pro, and Adobe Premiere. I am much more familiar and comfortable with the Adobe suite, and their workflow, so it seemed like Premiere would be the ideal solution for this project. (My own research revealed that Premiere was the more professional solution, too, so that is one more reason that I would want to use it.) However, when using Premiere, it quickly became clear that the way audio was dealt with in Premiere caused all sorts of odd issues, especially in terms of timing, etc. This might have been caused by my computer hardware not being up-to-snuff; or it may have been that I just didn't know the work-arounds in solving these audio problems in Premiere. In fact, a bit of online research showed that many people had similar problems. In any case, this was reason enough to not use Premiere, and opt for Final Cut Pro: it just worked.

Another benefit that I had while working on this film was the fact that editing can be done on a laptop alone, without an additional mouse. (Perhaps an external mouse would have been a great help, but I still don't know because I only work on my laptop with the trackpad.) The reason I mention this is because this all means that I can do editing work on the subway train, while commuting to one place or another. In fact, most of the editing process for this film was conducted while commuting. To be sure, there are a lot of things that cannot be done without a mouse (such as animation), and those steps of the production must be done at home, or at a place where I could set out a mouse.