Jonny Elwyn Inside the Edit – Pro Editor Course Review

Jonny Elwyn reviews Inside the Edit. Here is the web site for the Course which costs almost $20,000, but sounds like a pretty impressive course overall, though it is live from the UK, so timeings would be hard from the US.

And a second post with more bullet points on it.

Personally I question film school, it was fun, but film school needs direct training for things like Assistant Editing and also job placement, so a much more direct course might be the answer.

Scott Simmons at PVC Reviews Final Cut Pro on the iPad

Review: Final Cut Pro for iPad

I still am not a big fan of Final Cut Pro, though I am an expert on it, so I doubt I will even try it out on the iPad, but some of the omissions do seem curious, like having limited color correction when DaVinci has full color (though missing the edit page, so you really can’t talk about DaVinci).

Still the fact that the already wonky Project naming schemes seems different here is literally insane. Just follow fucking industry standards already!

And no second storylines also seems pretty huge.

A Bunch of Sites and Video Reviews of the Mac Studio and Studio Display and it is good


Stu Maschwitz has his post with speed tests. And Scott Simmons at the Pro Video Coalition has part 1 of Mac Studio for editing.

Scott Simmons has cables plugged in like Ido

9to5 Mac has a slew of reviews a swell as their own quick look by Chance Miller. And MacStories with it’s reviews roundup has a bunch more.

And I like the review from SixColors, because he has so many cables attached already which makes it seem much more real of a user, or at least one more like me.

So many of the early YouTube reviewers blow my mind, as their review space is so pretty. My office is not, most people would call it a pig sty (or maybe shar pei sty), but mine is used everyday and I have dogs. My wife would love to come in and clean, but I would never find anything. And it is especially messy now with me having a broken foot and all. Just blows my mind that their “work space” is so clean. I mean I have so many things connected to my mac it is a joke (2 thunderbolt 4 hubs and countless usb hubs). And just all the hard drives from work!

I so want a Mac Studio, but i also want to see what the MacPro is. I just don’t see how expandable it can be. Not chance of changeable RAM as it would be so much slower. Maybe it could have PCI, but not a graphics cards, so I doubt it.

And I have seen some people saying they can’t do the same thing with Ultra, so a 4×4 version would be seen as 2 processors, and then wouldn’t have double bandwidth and maybe not even double the ram, as it could only use the main bank, but lets hope that isn’t true.

I really hope that it has a dual Ultra, but I am not sure I could afford that anyway, so this could be my next machine.

DJI Osmo Pocket Extension Rod Unboxing and Review as a Jib/Crane

This is my initial unboxing and review of the DJI Osmo Pocket Extension Rod. I am attempting to use it as a crane or jib arm instead of as a selfie rod. It can be used as a crane or jib, but is pretty shaky and certainly needs post stabilization. As a selfie stick it is pretty amazing, but as a jib/crane it needs some nudging as the camera is just so light. Still you can get some usable stuff with some work and post processing.

I actually started this review a while back and have just finished and released it.

The audio is recorded on camera or from the microphone on my iMac.

The Footage was shot in 4k, but I had finished the shots for my wife’s short film in 1080 so this video is in 1080.

The Music are all YouTube tracks, just to keep it from getting too boring without it.

DJI Osmo Pocket Initial Test Footage and Review

I got a DJI Omso Pocket for Christmas and this is all of my initial footage that I shot to test it out, as well as some of my thoughts on it. I shot it all with the Osmo Pocket including the footage of me.

The footage was shot at UHD 59.94 progressive, though I shot my interview footage at 29.97 so I could try out the face tracking.

So far I am really impressed with the footage, and this amazing little camera, and it’s little tiny screen. I love that I can just drop it in my pocket and have it at a moments notice.

Fitbit Force, a decent fitness tracker, with a horrible, defective watch strap

The Force is a wrist based fitness tracking, that tracks steps, stairs, distance and estimates calories. And it has a liitle screen to display your results or act as a watch (though you wear it on your dominant yand, so it is on my right wrist instead of left, which takes some gettimg used to). 


The Force is my third Fitbit product, I had an original fitbit which I washed and a Fitbit One which had it’s battery die, and support never repplied to me to get it fixed. And now my dad who gave me this also gave me the awesome wifi fitbit Aria scale to track weight. The Flex is a decent fitness tracker, though has some serious issues, the first of which is the strap!

Instead of a normal watch band that would stay on, you press it this together to hold it on, but it does not stay on. It falls off me at least once a day. And even went into the toilet once, and it is only splash resistant (not a good thing for something you wear all the time like a watch), though I saved it. And it comes off almost every night while I sleep, which does not help the sleep tracking. Fitbit tried to re-invent the watch band and failed miserably! A normal watch band would have earned this aa great review, but I have not even had this a month and am sure I will lose it soon!

The two metal pieces that fit into the watch band holes.
Snapped together, though not very well.


And the stair tracking is flawed at best. It doesn’t track going down stairs at all, and you have to really be swinging your arm for it to track while going up. I was holding my iphone while going up 8 flights and it only registered 3 flights, though it normally registers 8, which is just annoying.

Another complaint is that it has lost some functionality. The original FitBit and the One both had a fun little flower you grew based on your daily exercise. Useless but fun, but this is gone from the Force.


And while it does a pretty good of tracking even without arm swing, it does register steps where you don’t get them, like raking or working in the yard, which is kind if a cheat, but expected because it is on your wrist. I do like it on your wrist as you don’t forget it.

Battery life seems pretty goid, lasting a good week, even when bluetooth synced to my iphone for syncing, and only takes an hour and a half to charge.

A decent tracker, but they really need to put a normal watch strap clasp on it, so it doesn’t come off so easily, and water proofing would be nice too!


And i do think fitness trackers are great as you dp push yourself more because of it. I park further away, or go up more stairs because of the tracker, and wanting to do better. And seeing your friends and family results adds to that as you want to do well. I just wish the Force stayed on better!