drbgaijin

Member since: Fri, Nov 4 2005
Last visited: Sat, Nov 7 2009
Timezone: 9.00 GMT
Location: Kumamoto, Japan
Occupation: English teacher, Video Producer
Total Posts: 1,993
Post Rank: 4
Points: 25,470

About Douglas Bruce

 I was born in St. Andrews, Scotland and now reside in Kumamoto Japan.

I gave up golf at the age of 14 to take up Judo.
Later in life I studied medicine at St. Andrews University for a few years before having my studies "terminated" as I was doing too much judo and not enough studying. 
I was always interested in capturing visual images and I worked my way through pencil and paper/ water colors to Kodak Brownie Box Camera/ 9.5mm B&W Cine camera, then on to Single 8 and Double 8 with a sound stripe.
I moved to Sweden in 1968 and from there it started. My first contact with computers was in 1980 when I bought a Sinclair ZX80 and then moved on to a Commodore 64. Produced my first short video (30seconds long in 16 shades of gray) after an all night render!
During my time in Sweden (32 years) I pursued 3 parallel careers:

1. Judo - pioneer in Swedish Children's judo. I developed the ability to communicate difficult techniques in a simple and easy to understand fashion. A trait I believe I put to good use today in the many tutorials I am producing for newcomers to MC.

2. IT Manager in a medium sized company in Stockholm.

3. I started my own small business doing web pages and "instructional" videos and DVDs.

I began using FAST's Studio DV in the 1990's.
I moved to Kumamoto Japan (2001) to get married and finally settle down.

I now pursue 2 careers:

1. I run a small English Conversation School together with my wife, Megumi, and

2: I produce short videos of Japan as seen through the eyes of a foreigner (Gaijin-eyes).

I upgraded to Pinnacle Liquid in 2002 and then (finally) to Media Composer 2.8 in early 2008.
At present I am using version 3.1.2 
I have been producing HD/SD video for the web since the late 1990's as well as working with Blu-Ray since early 2007.
I have also created over 140 Media Composer tutorials on community.avid.com.

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(AMC MojoDX 3.1.2 - XP Pro SP2) + (AMC MojoDX 4.0.2 Vista64 Business SP1),ASUS PK5 DEluxe/WiFi-AP CH1-14 Mobo,Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 (3GHz)8GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2 Memory, NVidia Quadro FX 3700 Graphics card,Onboard sound. Owltech Seasonic- M12-700(SS700-HM)PSU,Thermaltake Eureka VC8000BWA Case,Pioneer Multi drive, Panasonic LF-PB271 Blu-Ray burner, Buffalo BR-816FBS Blu-Ray burner, Logicool X-530 5.1 Sound System,Canoscan 8600F scanner,Logicool MXR-Revolution mouse,2 x Mitsubishi Diamond Crysta RDT179V monitors,Exchangeable caddy system for harddrives.1 x 250 GB Hitachi DeskStar System Drive with XP Pro (Japanese vers)for MC. 1 x 250 GB Hitachi DeskStar System Drive with XP Pro (English vers) and accessory Software + some games. 1 x 500GB Hitachi Deskstar for shared data. 1 TB Hitachi Deskstar for Avid Media.Canon Pixus iP9910, Brother Postscript laser.Sony Z1J, Sony FX1 cameras Sony HVR-M25 HiDef Edit deck, Sony DSR-25 DVCam deck.DVDitPro HD, AvidFX, AvidDVD,Sonic BD PowerStation, ParticleIllusion, Wacom Intuos Tablet, Merlin Steadicam, various tripods - used constantly.

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