Taking The Old With The New...Apple to Adobe

Today I've been trying to catch up on some editing at work before Christmas hits. Kim and I just returned home from our Honeymoon in Jamaica so I'm a little behind. I've returned home and had to get back on the horse quickly. I had to work the Western Illinois University Graduation ceremonies when we got home but missed Friday night because 5 inches of snow followed us home. The University Television staff held it down so I wasn't worried about missing the Honors ceremony if I had to. We left Jamaica and it was 83 degrees and got home to 10 degrees and snow. Gobs of snow! Shock is the only way to describe that.

 I've spent nearly my entire TV Production career (8 years) working with the Apple Final Cut Pro editing suite and a few others here and there. The suite has every thing you need to edit a project from beginning to end and I've paid plenty of bills behind this particular platform. Which mad me kind of unhappy when we found out that Apple has been phasing the platform out. I guess their plan is to cater to the more prosumer editor market. I, nor my colleagues, have no desire to use their new platform because for a true professional, the tools are everything to your trade. It's a few steps back to say the least.

This has forced me to learn a completely new set of editing software's and a whole new workflow. Its been a challenge as of yet because loading software and waiting for updates puts a halt to any work at times.From now on I'll be using the Adobe editing suite they have on the Creative Cloud. I still have a few other pieces of software to load but it has been somewhat smooth besides their content loader freezes after you haven't used it for a few days. Adobe has provided tutorials for the products and content to go along with them, so that helps.

For me learning new things brings some anxiety so lets hope I can learn some new things and enhance my work quality at the same time. I always think back to when I first started to learn to play the guitar, golf and when I got my first Master's and how frustrated I was. I also remember that after I took a few deep breaths and pushed through, I became comfortable enough to learn. I'm sure I'll need every bit of my patience to see it through but I will keep on to the other side and hope for the best. Changing behavior is something I'm very intrigued by.:)