Today James Thompson (who also happens to be my tutor for “Popular Cinema”) was in for an editing workshop. This workshop was very thorough, which I appreciated. I loved how much of an emphasis James put on media management, something I’ve tried really hard to work on, on previous jobs. I did appreciate the explanation on what “Scratch Disks” actually do, because I have wondered for a long time but just never really investigated. It is super handy to save internal hard drive space for basic read/write cache and preview storage, although, I wonder if the limitations of external drive speed would throttle the editor. It was also really interesting hearing James’ feedback to many people in the class after watching their edited “test” projects. I really appreciated his explanations on why cuts should be made and artistic explanations on why certain edits are effective and recommended in specific circumstances. It is always fantastic to observe someone else’s workflow and what works for them especially with Post-Production. I found it really helpful to see how James handled ingesting media and organising it neatly on hard drives. I was really impressed with how quickly he was able to find things because he knew where they were.