I'm proud to be part of a very creative team that has pioneered many new ideas and workflows that are now industry standard in sports' production. The Tour was the first broadcast show to adopt FCPX working for multiple editors on shared storage.īBC's Snooker has played a big part in my life, I've been editing tournament coverage since 1997. 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. There is a demo video, but it shows the process, not a before and after stem separation example. I uploaded 'This is what you came for' by Calvin Harris featuring Rihanna and after a few seconds of processing, got a preview of the track without featuring Rihanna and her vocals separated out. Better still, upload your own track (with vocals of course) to try out. If you were like me and thought that this separation would be a pretty impossible task, then head over to their website and listen to the examples. Then the clever AI 'source separation neural network' splits the audio into two stems, the track minus the vocals and then the vocals on their own. Lalal.ai allows a user to upload a music track to their website that has vocals in the mix. Sadly at the moment this is just a web service, but what an amazing one and it sends the mind spinning trying to comprehend how this audio magic is achieved. Removing vocals from music or mixed soundtracks with a few clicks. If ever there was a candidate for a new audio plugin for Final Cut Pro, this should be it.

X minus pro vocal remover