TRAINING AND THE NEED FOR MULTISKILLING


Brian Cantwell Soho Editors


“FCP X is the fi rst major change in the editing world since FCP fi rst appeared.


Multiskilling and training up for Apple FCP X


Apple FCP X brings with it massive changes to the editing platform so even the most experienced FCP editors will benefi t from training to make the most of it


Once you’ve learned the ropes on an editing package, it’s easy to disregard the need for training. However, gone are the days when, as an editor, you simply learned a single industry standard product and got on with your job safe in the knowledge nothing much would change for the foreseeable future. Today, all the key essential elements of the


production and post production process evolve around technology that’s continually changing; from cameras through editing systems, vfx packages and colour grading systems. Rest on your laurels and you’ll be left behind as the need to keep on top of training is more apparent now than ever before. Added to this, there’s now also an increasing need not only to understand how


your role slots into the myriad jigsaw of roles making up a production but to also have a working knowledge of many other stages in the process. Editors are increasingly taking on the role


of producers (becoming ‘preditors’), colourists are increasingly vfx artists, camera operators are sound recordists, and so on. If you can’t multi-skill to cover multiple roles there’s a very real danger you’ll be overtaken by someone who can.


Putting the X into training The vast changes FCP users witnessed with the welcome arrival of Apple Final Cut Pro X only underlines the need for ongoing training.


A lot of editors will think of downloading FCP X and self-teaching themselves on it, which almost cer- tainly means they won’t learn the best ways of doing things


Brian Cantwell Soho Editors


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[FCP X is] so different to FCP7, even the most experienced talent in the world will benefi t from training to more quickly get to grips with the software.


Doing proper training, you very quickly learn the correct things from experts.


[In short-form] clients are looking more and more for one person to do the graphics, audio, edit and grade. But in long-form there’s still a very marked demarcation.”


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