In-Flight Edit

Pacific Forge from Eddie Roman on Vimeo.

Here’s a video I re-edited on my way to Uganda a couple weeks ago. The flight from LA to Dubai is 13 hours, followed by a 4 hour flight to Uganda. I was stoked to find out the plane had AC power on every seat! It was laptop heaven.

Before my departure, my client had requested some changes that I just did not have time to make. I really didn’t want to make them wait two weeks for my return (it’s hard to edit a video with no electrical outlets in a tent in the African bush), so being able to edit on the plane was the best. After finishing the video I landed in Dubai, uploaded it to Vimeo and sent it to the client. It’s mind-blowing how far video has come. When I began editing in 1986, good editing equipment could fill a room. To have an entire system on a laptop is just plain cool.