Opening Sequence

I did it!  I started editing "Voices of the Homeless."  I have built the one-minute opening sequence with a portion of Scheila Gonzalez Santiago's beautiful soprano saxophone solo over titles and 30 seconds of 3-Dog Mike fishing on the pier in slow motion.  I also dumped the eight sections of the "Voices of the Homeless" performance into eight iMovie "Events" to cut in back and forth throughout the documentary.

I guess trying to edit my three-camera concert from last year, and realizing it couldn't be done in iMovie, that it would have to be cut in Final Cut Pro, was the final push I needed.  I said "the hell with it" and started on "Voices."  "Voices" can be done in iMovie because I shot the whole thing with ONE camera.  The performance footage (shot with three cameras) has already been edited together.  Every cut I make will be mountains easier.

But now I've decided I MIGHT be able to edit my concert myself IF I learn Final Cut Pro.  So, Wednesday night I'll be back at the editing bay with a Lynda.com CD seeing if I can understand anything about Final Cut Pro.

I've got the bug, that's for sure.

And it's easy to get that bug when you have no funding.
:-)