Online Edit Sessions

[Rocco Rocco]

Show them this next time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MNg3sSZ9F8

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[Aaron Cadieux]

Rocco,

Thanks for that link. That’s a great song. I laughed, but at the same time felt that good ‘ole blood-boiling rage creeping into my viens of having to explain the workings of a rough cut to one of our braindead clients. Ha! Sometimes I just want to grab the client and shake them.

Another one of my favorite things is this . . . I always explain that “when you see the blue bar going across the screen, it means the program is rendering, so I won’t be able to do anything during that time”. A little while later, I will begin rendering an edit, and the client will look at me and say “what are you doing? Why are you just sitting there”. Usually I just point at the screen and say “blue bar”. After the 100th time of going through this routine, the client will eventually get it.

Another one of my pet peeves is when I’m under a time crunch, and computer-illiterate people come in every 2 seconds and ask “how’s it coming?” Or, they’ll want to view the project just seconds after I’ve dropped music onto the timeline. I’ll say “I haven’t worked on setting the audio levels yet, because I just dropped the music in”. They’ll say “OK, that’s fine”. But then they’ll go on to say that the music is “too loud” and is “overpowering the voiceover”. Then I will say, “yes, because like I said five minutes ago, I had just dropped the music in the timeline, and hadn’t had time to set the levels yet”. I swear, I think I’d have better luck explaining things to a lamp-post.

-Aaron

-Aaron