We are currently working a short comedy film called 'The End of The Pier Show'. It needs to be completed by the 16The March so it can be entered into a competition.

Working with Ash Parker (www.ashparker.co.uk) who is Producing this video and who I also work with on the Hand Island comedy series (www.handisland.com). I'll post the entire cast and crew on here later when I have the info.

I'm cutting in Final Cut Pro Studio 2 as usual but also using After Effects to create a bullet-to-the-head effect for poor old Pierrot. It was also shot in HDV (1920 x 1080) so it looks lovely but the Sony hard-drive it was captured onto creates M2T files which aren't native to FCP without the index file that's created with the footage. The cameraman kindly converted the footage from 24fps to 25 but left it in M2T without the index files so I had to convert all the footage to AIC (Apple Intermediary Codec). This can take a little while and sort of defeats the object of having a direct-to-edit device.

I have noticed that archiving direct-to-disk footage to be a bit of a pain. As most know if you have tapes at the end of the project, assuming that you log and captured the tapes properly, you can just dump off the captured footage and keep the project file. As long as you keep the original tapes you can re-capture the whole project as and when you need to.

The problem with direct to disk is you can't do this so where the heck do you achieve the video too? OK the most obvious is a dump it all onto a few blu-ray disks but that's a fairly expensive way to do things.

Anyway enough of my rant!

As soon as I have permission I'll post a version of the video on the main site.