This week heralded my long awaited introduction to Premiere Pro. Having been baptised in the fires of iMovie and Final Cut Pro X I was ready to find out how real editors work. The answer?

With tears. Lots of them.

But, thanks to Lynda, and evangelistic greyhound enthusiasts (“They are quiet, they are cleaaaan”), I have thus far made progress.

I had some serious struggles along the way, however, from figuring out in and out points, swapping clips, audio – just went I thought I’d made the perfect haiku video and exported it, I’d somehow added in a minute and a half of empty black footage. (??) I don’t know. Thanks to this gruelling exercise I do feel more optimistic about taking on Project Brief 2, and hopefully this time the process will be a lot smoother.