Writer/Director Derek Newman on Peter Sinclair

Pete Sinclair. The editor. Well, without him, the video would never have been made. He stepped up and donated A TON of his personal time to the cause and did it all from his personal computer. I pushed him pretty hard like I think I push a lot of people and co workers that I work with.

I think everyone has the potential to do anything if they are not afraid of failure. I basically had this whole thing mapped out and Pete was able to meet everything and every sequence I wanted and he did a great job with the opening and blooper sequences (which he sequenced himself). I hope to one day do another video and work with him again. Thanks Pete.

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"As I sit here drinking my coffee and thinking about what to write, I realize that one of the fueling aspects for myself on the movie “What We’ve Learned” was indeed coffee. The editing process probably consumed about 300 pots of coffee and that’s not an exaggeration either. In fact, that’s more like a rough estimate – thinking back I think it’s more than 300. What better way to talk about editing a movie about drug misuse than to talk about my own addiction – coffee.

I received the footage from Derek Newman back in September and the first thing I did was brew up a pot of coffee and sat down to watch what’s known as the raw footage, which the unedited, unpolished movie created by the director. I fired up my editing program on my computer, which to be honest was probably not the best computer to use, since I’m running an old Pentium 3. Of course that meant long wait times and even longer render times to produce the movie and in turn meant a lot of coffee during the waiting time."

-Peter Sinclair