Confused

Mary Elizabeth Medawar, NBC5 Next

I finally shot the last of my interviews today, but alas, my work is just beginning. I bought a MacBook Pro a couple weeks ago because my PC crashed right before finals for the millionth time. I have wanted to get a new computer for a while and this gave me a valid excuse. So with this amazing new machine I was determined to do all my video editing from home, rather than spending endless hours in the editing lab. However, what I neglected to recognize at the time was that editing from my home computer would create a plethora of problems I wouldn’t have otherwise encountered. I first had to figure out how to transfer the video from the camera onto my computer. Okay, not so hard, buy a firewire. Then I realized there wasn’t enough room on my computer for the video files, which again, after a few calls my confidence was restored. Answer: buy an external hard-drive. Overcoming the first couple hurdles was simple.
But the predicament in which I am currently entangled is teaching myself Final Cut in the next few hours so I can successfully edit my package. I always heard it was user friendly, unlike the demonized Avid, so I assumed it would be a simple learning process and I would be editing in no time. I was wrong.
Never assume you can teach yourself the ins and outs of new software overnight without a tutorial or any guidance. Lesson learned.