I had my first Quantel lab for the post-production class early in the morning at 1am to 5am. (Yup. the infamous early morning labs are back with vengence! Ugh,) I was here in this lab room last year around this date when I came in for the open house. It was then, I saw this awesome real-time editing and effect machine that sold me to attend Full Sail. To sit in front of that machine was the sweetest thing and brought back a lot of memory of my hesitant moments before choosing to move to Orlando, from NY.

Full Sail is only one of two schools that are qualified to teach Quantel machines in US, with certified instructors. They claim you can almost land a job at any post-pro house if you know how to use this machine. (I believe!) The tablet and pen based editing interface is little hard to get used to in contrast to usual mouse and keyboard editing systems, but it will grow on me with its charms. The fact that every edit and effect are rendered as soon as you apply them are real big plus. Some say you can't never go back to any other because the machine is so quick. Amazingly, the machine is a couple of generations old in terms of processors yet the customized software and hardware makes it work better than editing software based on computers with newer chips.

We'll be learning and applying color corrections and effects rendered here with our 35mm projects later this month when the final edit is chosen--or so I believe. Since there's two films going on, there won't be any free lab hours to play around with this toy. No matter. By the end of this month, I'll add another line to my growing and glowing resume. Hehehe.