Food – My Final Cut Pro

Today was a day off.

Well, it was a day of reflection.

I spent quite a bit of time thinking about what I want to do with Final Cut Pro. As I improve my skills what kind of videos do I want to make?

I have a love of food. I was a chef for about sixteen years. So I could do cooking videos.

I love tech. I could do videos about the devices I have or have had in the past.

I really like flying my drone and seeing the amazing footage it can produce. So I could do more videos involving that.

I also have another blog that combines a little of each. So I could take advantage of that.

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I consider myself very fortunate to have all of these options. Now I just need to figure it out.

I also have the attention span of a gnat.

OK, so I’m trying to figure out how to determine whether I’ve succeeded in my bet.

I mean, how do I judge whether I have become fluent with the Final Cut Pro for iPad app?

I guess the only way that I can judge of that for myself is to look at what I’ve done previously and then see how/if I improve.

What I think I’m going to do is take one of the first videos that I did on the Final Cut Pro for Mac version and see what I create by using the same video files but doing everything on the iPad version.

Is that a good method to judge this by?

I don’t know.

It’s definitely not very scientific.

I already have the mindset that the video is not good and can be improved on.

BUT….

It does, however, allow me to focus on the:

1) 60 plus hours of drone video I’ve shot over this past year and not used.

2) look at all the photographs I’ve taken and not used.

AND

3) look at what I’ve spent time on over the last year with no real purpose.

I’m hoping that it helps me focus and that’s something I desperately need. I tend to move from project to project instead of giving one project all my attention. I’ve never been diagnosed but I really think I have ADHD.

I tend to get interested in something, learn about it, play with it for a while, then get bored with it and move on to the next bright shiny object. Like somehow this thing will fill a need or make me feel better and I do for a while but then I’m right back to looking for the next thing and the next thing after that. I guess what I’m saying is that I want to start doing one thing well instead of a lot of things half assed (pardon my language).

So, with that in mind I’ve gone over the last few videos that I’ve done with Final Cut Pro for Mac and have chosen three where I like the content, but don’t like the final product. Now I just have to figure out which one I want to focus on and go with that.

I hope to have that decision made by tomorrow’s blog. I will then upload that video to my YouTube channel so that it’s available for anyone to see. Then I’m going to start working with the same files but on the iPad version of Final Cut Pro and see what I can come up with.

I’d like to give a thank you to anyone who is reading this, and I hope that you find the journey interesting.

That’s it for now though I have a lot of work ahead of me.

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