Paper edits won't crash your pc
I don't think anyone can really love editing.
There's just no easy way out. A final edit of 5 minute may take you anywhere from 1-3 hours, or morep depending on it's complexity.
In those hours, all you do is face the computer, make your cuts and tweaks, and hope your pc doesn't crash before you get the chance to save again.
This is one of those times where it really pays to have your workflow planned.
Personally I use what uni taught me: view and log footage as it's captured, make paper edit, start edit, and save,save,save.
Paper edits especially are lifesavers. They function like how outlines do for written assignments. You put your thoughts on paper and plan your edits according to it. Often you'll find that you'll have a very strong gasp of your project's narrative after a paper edit.
Interestingly, my finished edits rarely look anything like their scribbled predecessors. Having a better idea of what I want makes it easier for me to decide what I want put in the end product. After all, if it works what difference does a different angle make?
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I may be alone in this,but I think there's a certain romance in using the pencil,although I find that it does slow down the creative process quite a bit,your handwriting would flow with the prose,there's an art that exists in the physical form itself. Are we on the same page,no? I got carried away.
It's style perhaps.
I would have no patience for my straggling scribbling (unless I pick up shorthand)). The ideas in my writing are usually already there when I put pen to paper (pun intended), having pondered over them for hours, even months. To express them is, to me personally, to give those thoughts an appearance of finality.
That's one good thing that comes from living with your head in the clouds.
as i recall, you have terrible handwriting that requires page with lines, mlh.
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