The Star Wipe

[Grinner Hester]

I apply cheese in the name of creativity but I never go to it when I can’t think of something that looks good.
Being an old linear editor, we are well trained in the art of saying no and making it seem like the client’s idea. Over the years my kooth has faded. A fine example would be just a couple of years ago I was editing for a novice producer (as we all do from time to time) when in the middle of an ok piece he busts out with a “ooo can you do a page turn??!”
I laughed and said something like “the capability is here but the possibility is not.”
lol
Man, I’d sooner do the dropping sheep wipe from the toaster.
In the name of nostalgia, again I do love cheezy wipes but when a producer wants to fill the show with the full library of uselessness, I now get frustrated and wrap it up early.
I’d like to think my worst edits are behind me.

[Stephen Smith]

Ahh, the dropping sheep wipe, that brings back memories. I was at a sales presentation for Final Cut Pro 3 and the sales guy announced that it now has around a 100 transitions. The room was silent and the sales guy then said, yeah…I don’t use them either. Then everyone laughed. Well, I’ll star wipe transition out of here.

Stephen Smith
Salt Lake Video

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[Mark Suszko]

“Why have hamburger, when you can have steak?”-Homer Simpson
“I’m taking my name off the credits.”-Lisa Simpson

[Mike Cohen]

It is funny that on pre-digital broadcast switchers, like the GVG 300 and so forth, there were buttons dedicated to wipe patterns. Granted you could assign preset motions or switcher presets to these buttons, but did Grass Valley think the Heart wipe was so useful that they needed a dedicated button for it?

[Ramil Pasibe]

All those fancy transitions are definitely a sign of an amateur at work. Reminds me of the old days when I was just learning adobe premiere and thinking – “wow there’s a lot of option here – and then there’s this need to utlize all of them. – hahaha glad I got those things behind me.

[Gary Chvatal]

I had a client this past week ask if I could recommend some software for him to edit at home. He wanted something with lots of different transitions…what he was using now only had a limited amounts of options. I told him I wasn’t sure which packages offered the most transitions because I only used cuts and dissolves….

I’m not sure that he understood my point….

[Grinner Hester]

I use to think that once voice activation was the norm on computers that we editors would be out of a job. I really did look at it as we were the go between from producer to machine.
Now, I see very few producers are producers at all and even fewer are editors. As more and more producers are handed laptops with FCP on them, more and more blank looks are offered to laptop screens on airplanes, our rates slowly trickle up.
I say bring on the kiki wipes, man. They create job security like a mofo.

[Charley King]

The year was 1975, we got our new Grass Valley 1600-7G switcher, God I felt like I had reached heaven. My first client came in and his first words were, “I want to use some of those great new transitions you got.” I replied, “No you don’t.” He said no? I said nope.

As Grinner said, I have slipped backward now tho since I create video for the High Tech Marquees at Caesars Palace and Ballys on the strip here in Las Vegas, ya just gotta go with the glitzy look of Las Vegas. I’m not thrilled about it but I do it, well let me say I have been doing it.

Tomorrow is my last day. I am joining the ranks of the unemployed as a retiree. I will still have my fingers in the pie as a consultant, but I ain’t working no more.

I told Ron and Kathlyn that they might want to remove me as a forum leader, since I will be removed from actual work, but they haven’t done it yet. I will still be around checking up on things, but probably as with teh last year, not as often as before.

I love all of you guys and gals.

Charlie

ProductionKing Video Services
Unmarked Door Productions
Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel
Las Vegas, Nevada

[Chris Bové]

There’s a doof in every company (usually wearing a tie patterned with little hot dogs or Santas) that really digs injecting software with unnecessary crud like heart wipes and page curls. It loads up switchers and software with buttons, just to make it look as-or-more impressive than the next guy’s.

You can go to any major hardware store and buy a power drill, anything from a $20 Black and Decker to a $1,000 Milwaukee. Really though, all you need is a hole, right?

Next thing you know, they’ll redesign the stop sign…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwqPYeTSYng

…or the hammer…
https://toolmonger.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/DewaltNailGun-450.jpg

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[Charley King]

I remember doing a bunch of productions for those people. It had to be them.

Charlie

ProductionKing Video Services
Unmarked Door Productions
Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel
Las Vegas, Nevada