Jiggy Gaton is an expat living in Kathmandu Nepal,
running a small
A/V studio with family and dog. He is an author/cartoonist,
filmmaker, and overall geek from way back. Not the kind of geek who would ever
be sitting in a Star Trek Captain’s chair – more likely to be sitting on the
back of a 500cc Royal Enfield Bullet somewhere out in the middle of the
Himalayas (see picture below) - but only when he’s not behind his Macbook Pro
hacking out whatever needs to be done in the studio.
His interests lie anywhere within Apple Final Cut Studio, iWork,
and Adobe Master Suite CS4, as well as anything to do with CD4 or Poser7...if
it moves and makes noise, he’s into it - and that includes his loud Enfield and
barking 60kg Alsatian named Krypto The Superdog. Also self-taught on the
mixing boards with Protools LE/HD and Logic 8, he is often seen in the control
room with the boys, tinkering on a new Nepali Rock song, even though his skills
run along post production lines and not in playing a real instrument.
He’s a good listener however, loves both music and film, and
likes to put them together in interesting ways for interesting
people. Schooled in the fine arts and mass communication, he’s worked for
both IBM and Microsoft, as well as with many UN agencies around the globe,
helping them with creative ideas and productions. Lately he’s been out in
the villages: working on one documentary about the rural elderly, and another
about the Nepali Brick Kiln donkey - as well as shorts on endangered wild and
domestic life for his pet project www.animalnepal.org.
You can find Jiggy Gaton hosting in Creative COW's
CatDV - NEW ! forum.
Our man in Nepal, Jiggy Gaton, likes to live for danger. He installed a major software upgrade mid-project, with virtually no preparation, just to see what would break. Lo and behold, it all worked! And the more Jiggy works with it, the better he's liking it. Join him in this Creative COW, Real-world, Real-time Report on Final Cut Studio 3.
The COW's man in Nepal, Jiggy Gaton, has found a balance between easy, automated music production, and high-quality results with SmartSound SonicFire Pro 5. He has also been impressed with how easy it is to create variations of his custom scores, and has come up with some unexpected workflow innovations.
The COW's man in Nepal, Jiggy Gaton, gets asked all the time about subtitling DVDs -- and cringes every time: editing software suites just don't have that much to offer. However, Mac DVD authors have some standalone alternatives worth considering.
Having both FCP and Motion in Final Cut Studio means more options for effects creation with your video projects -- and FCS integration makes it easy to work with them together. Having Motion projects sitting on your FCP timeline even helps keep your projects organized! Our man in Nepal, Jiggy Gaton, shows just how easy it can be to take advantage of it all.
The COW's Jiggy Gaton owns an audio studio -- but has created a tutorial for those of us who don't have an audio studio within earshot when editing video in Final Cut Pro. He's not sure if he's being lazy, or just efficient, to use an integrated Soundtrack Pro project inside FCP. Either way, read on to learn how to do it yourself.
