The decision to go X

For the music documentary I'm editing in FCPX, I was introduced to the director Jesse Lyda by producer Jason Wehling. Jason and I have known each other for a few years now and had worked together on a previous project, but this was the first time I met Jesse. We hit it off and shortly afterward I was hired.

Jesse left the decision for which NLE to cut with up to us, but he did say that he had already bought a copy of X. I don't know how aware he was of the backlash against it at the time, but Jason and I were.

When Jason asked me what I thought of working in X, I lit up. "You're probably the only producer in town right now crazy enough to consider it," I told him.

We had to weigh the pros and cons carefully. I told him about my experience working with FCPX on a short profile I made about one of my film students. This video was something I made on my own specifically to see if I could adjust to X's new ways of working.