teacher

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Walter,

[walter biscardi] “Having a job in your profession takes drive, skill and a whole lot of luck today.”

Actually repetition and persistence is in my opinion a bigger factor in succeeding – do something 10,000 times and you’ll undoubtedly end up doing it very well.

All the Best
Mads
London, UK

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[Grinner Hester]

Exactly. They are there to learn video techniques, not restrictions.
The programs I have designed for colleges have course requirements and curriculum outlines, but this is much different. These kids are all on different levels. Some cloud over as I cover waveform monitoring and some lean in but they all put the hands on the scope and tell me what’s what instead of learning a test then discarding that info.
Such is home school. The learning of subjects… not tests.

I’ll have to google the romancing cindy thing.

[Bob Zelin]

I have been thinking about this thread – and I have not responded out of 1) respect, and 2) I have not read all the responses, to make an accurate commentary.

With that said –
I just did a Google search on Bill Ferster.
Bill was the father of modern day Non Linear Editing with the EMC non linear editing system, NOT AVID (as was personally told to me by Eric Peters, co inventor of the AVID Media Composer). I knew Bill, and worked for him as a freelance tech, before I got involved with AVID Technologies (in the very early years of AVID). Bill is currenty employed by the University of Virginia teaching.

“Bill Ferster has had a 25 year history of developing innovative tools for the film and video industry. He is currently a senior scientist at the University of Virginia with a joint appointment with the Center for Technology and Teacher Education at the Curry School and the Virginia Center for Digital History at the College of Arts and Sciences. He has founded numerous companies including West End Film, developer of the first PC-based 3D animation system, EMC, developer of the first digital nonlinear editing system which received an EMMY Award in 1993, and StageTools, the leading developer of image animation tools.”

To me, Bill Ferster is the equivalent of Robert Johnson (in the music world) of inventing Rock and Roll (well Dave Bargin invented computer editing) – but he is damn important. Bill Ferster should be in Las Vegas with 20 blonds, and countless millions, but alas, this is not the case. Life is cruel, and the true innovators of our industry do not necessarily reap the rewards. I only thought of this, because on some user forum (probably AVID-L), I remembered making some reference to a guy who “took over” the EMC non linear editing system as a Nazi, and he was from Belgium, and took great offense to my smart ass comments. Well, I cannot find a single reference to him, nor can I barely find reference to Bill Ferster, who is SO DAMN IMPORTANT to the history of our current industry (as is Jack Calaway and Dave Bargin), yet there is more easy reference to my name than any of these giants in the professional video business.

In summary, SCREW being a teacher – as Woody Allen said – “those that can do, those that can’t teach”.

Where is the justice in life ?

Bob Zelin

[Ron Lindeboom]

We had an article about Bill Ferster slated to go into issue 2 of the Creative COW Magazine. Unfortunately, we couldn’t get any photo images of Bill in time and so we scrapped the article, as it seemed odd to have an article about the guy who invented this technology and to run it without pictures of him.

Bill also invented the programs StageTools MovingPicture and StageTools MovingParts, which helped make him a living for a number of years.

Like you, Bob, I find it sad that people like Bill seem to disappear without hardly a trace in this industry.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom
CEO, CreativeCOW.net

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
– Antoine de Saint Exupéry

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
– Gandhi

Better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with the poor spirits who neither enjoy much, nor suffer much because they live in a gray twilight that knows no victory or defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt