2020 was my 25th year of editing the TdF and my 20th year as lead editor. The shows have also been nominated for a 2021 BAFTA.Īlthough both were postponed to later in the year, I worked again on ITV's coverage of the Tour de France and La Vuelta.

It has been recommissioned by C4 for 60 episodes, including prime-time versions and five themed programmes. It has been a great success and the shows grabbed more viewers in the 4pm weekday slot than any previous strand. I also designed and built the majority of the graphics as Motion templates. Though I haven't yet tried to herd a flock of sheep through the city centre! Current EditingĢ020 has been busy, the beginning of the year was finishing off a new property series (cut on FCP) for Channel 4 called The Great House Giveaway. I was made a Freeman of Lichfield through The Worshipful Company of Smiths (established 1601). Under the name Idustrial Revolution, I have written and sold plugins for Final Cut Pro for 13 years. I have also worked as a broadcast and corporate editor for over 30 years, starting on one inch tape, working through many formats, right up to today's NLEs. I am the Editor-in-Chief of FCP.co and have run the website since its inception ten years ago. So Philip phoned up Promise support and got help. The PDF manual is very detailed, maybe too detailed and too technical for somebody who just wants to change a bad drive. Philip Googled and Googled but couldn't find anything. So what do you do when a drive fails in a Promise Pegasus R6? We shared his pain during numerous telephone conversations when he explained that a large FCPX project that he had been working on was now at risk. This is exactly what happened to our good friend Philip Johnston who runs HDWarrior. They are built up from 6 traditional spinning hard disks and every now and then one will fail. They can be looped together, so as you can see from the picture below 50 Terabytes at the side of a desk isn't uncommon!

The RAIDs are a great way to have lots of fast storage (up to 24TB in a single unit) connected to any Mac that supports a Thunderbolt connector, yes MacBook Air included.

Apart from a Thunderbolt pass through and a mains connector, that's all there is on the back!

The Pegasus R6 was one of the first peripherals to have a Thunderbolt connection on the back. Spinning disks do go wrong, so what happens if your R6 has a hard drive failure? Lots of capacity, a fast Thunderbolt connection and they are (pretty) reliable.

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