Re: macbook air and fcpx- the new portable edit suite

[David Lawrence] "Even though my primary work involves video post-production services, I have a background in music and sound design and sound is the foundation for everything I post, whether a music video or documentary style interview. In effect, I use the NLE as both an NLE and a DAW in a fluid, back and forth process to create rhythm, pacing and beats with both picture and sound interchangeably. For me, it's all the same during the editorial phase.
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My experience as well! David, you could be describing my work exactly.



[David Lawrence] "On the project I just finished, I posted a four and a half minute segment cut from a ~1 hour interview with a single subject. The speaker is interesting and engaging, but his speaking style is full of pauses and tangential thoughts. His final ~4 minute actuality has close to 300 edits. I craft the pauses, add or pull breaths and even construct entirely new sentences to make him succinct and editorially on point. It sounds perfect. You accept it as his actual speech without question. This is pretty typical of the work I do.
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Wow. Me, too. I do a whole lot of sentence restructure and rhythm work. On every piece.



[David Lawrence] "For me, it's a very musical process, like scoring a symphony. That's why when I look at something like Shawn Federline's timeline, I don't see clutter, I see a musical score built on a common language that can easily be read, understood and shared across a range of applications and disciplines. And with audio especially, track arrangements, waveforms and clip patterns often make it possible to identify audio type instantly, just by looking. This at-a-glance feedback is a huge timesaver when sharing projects.
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Again, constructing a trailer or promo is, for me, very much like scoring. Not just music and SFX, but speech patterns and rhythms, VO breaks and bridges. All very musical. David, we definitely think alike in our editorial approaches.