{"id":1122,"date":"2008-11-19T07:56:16","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T13:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2008-11-19T07:56:16","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T13:56:16","slug":"conquering-your-greatest-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/19\/conquering-your-greatest-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Conquering Your Greatest Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1123\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/19\/conquering-your-greatest-fear\/chifcpug-newsletter\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/chifcpug-newsletter.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"438,475\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"chifcpug-newsletter\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/chifcpug-newsletter.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/chifcpug-newsletter.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1123\" title=\"chifcpug-newsletter\" src=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/chifcpug-newsletter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"438\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">An excerpt from the monthly newsletter sent out to all of the editors.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tonight I&#8217;ll be doing a presentation at the monthly editors meeting in Chicago. It&#8217;s a group of Final Cut Pro editors from around the city ranging from first time editors to seasoned professionals. There&#8217;s usually 30-75 people in attendance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I offered to do this in the spring after completing a project that I thought would be a good teaching tool but the day that was so far off has finally arrived.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m having <a title=\"Jeff Carrion, Crazy Good Editor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.edit-creations.com\/demo_reels\/demoreels_jeff.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff<\/a> record it on video so that I can watch it back later and\u00a0critique myself and improve where I need it. If I can get over the nerves of doing something like this, I wouldn&#8217;t mind doing it more often for this group as well as others. There are always\u00a0groups\u00a0like this and conferences around the country looking for guest speakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt from the monthly newsletter sent out to all of the editors. Tonight I&#8217;ll be doing a presentation at the monthly editors meeting in Chicago. It&#8217;s a group of Final Cut Pro editors from around the city ranging from first time editors to seasoned professionals. There&#8217;s usually 30-75 people in attendance.\u00a0 I offered to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[108,109],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","tag-chifcpug","tag-public-speaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47XZT-i6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":558,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/19\/parenthood-not-bad-not-bad-at-all\/","url_meta":{"origin":1122,"position":0},"title":"Parenthood&#8230; Not bad, not bad at all","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"January 19, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"As we enter our third week now, things are getting easier each day. 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