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  Student Q: How long does it take to create a highlight of a basketball game?

  Posted by Pezhead7 on July 23, 2007 at 4:10 pm

  I am a student researching the editing process to create sports highlights, specifically basketball.

  I would be grateful to know how much time it takes to create a quality basketball hightlight. A second question is how many editors work on one game to create the highlight.

  One thing I have not be able to figure out is how many editors work at most broadcast stations. Is the range 20-40 or more like 60-100 for the likes of ESPN, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, etc?

  It you can help me out that would be great.

  Thank you,
  Sebastian Yore

  Jhones replied 19 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Jon Zanone

  July 23, 2007 at 7:32 pm

  How long is a piece of string?

  Are the highlights for a VO (Stuart Scott talks while the video runs) or a self-contained package (using a radio call, nat sound, graphics to tell the story of the game)?

  I can tell you from my experience, for a self-contained package on a DIV 1 BBall program, with a radio call, cutaways, graphics takes about 4 hours. That includes digitize time and time to lay back to tape. The package is usually 4-5 minutes.

  Of course, all the graphics are pre-built, and all the editor needs to do is change them accordingly.

  Jon
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  Jhones

  July 23, 2007 at 7:57 pm

  we in israel do it in a cut2cut method. usualy going straight to the Replays. if u made a Highlight list by time u can then do it in minutes.

  ~Jhones~

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