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you can’t make this stuff up
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You guys need to starting thinking OUTSIDE the box. Sure, editing in the car is fine… but what about distributed rendering? Just think, you could have the entire New York City taxi fleet working on rendering your output. What the heck, they’re just sitting there anyway… might as well put them to use!
Mark
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[Patricia Shanks] “The only problem is … how to make the entire process hands free. Perhaps a stylus between the teeth? Go ahead. Go ahead. Tell me I’m onto something.”
Hmmm… you could get rid of that useless airbag in the steering wheel and replace it with a trackball.
…keep your hands off it in a sharp turn of course or you’ll be pulling in clips from the trashcan.
On second thought, maybe a Wacom tablet with a base that fits snugly into a cupholder would be the ticket…although where would I keep my cheeseburger?
TimK,
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Just got my car back from the shop. It runs on Premiere CS4.
Sorry but William Daniels’ voice was not available.
Mike Cohen
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Quite impressive, Mike.
It would look even fancier with one of those color-coded Bella keyboards.
Now this is what I call multi-tasking.
Ron Lindeboom
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my old driving post facility:
https://grinnerhester.com/bus1.jpg
https://grinnerhester.com/ship.html
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And now with Keymote, you don’t really need the computer handy…
They have an app that will run FCP from your iPhone. Really? What next? The next time I have a spare month for a one-day edit, this might be worth trying out.
This would take all the profit out of editing while driving.
Ed
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It may be time to resurrect the old CMX voice-activated software, integrate it with Avid’s new Max-T online editing software and keep your dog in the car with you!
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Y’know, I don’t actually have a problem with this at all. It’s one of the many ways how this industry and many others have been built. You want to become an agent? Start in the mailroom. Want to become a producer? Start as a personal assistant.
On one level, sure, it’s exploitation. More important, you want more from your assistant than somebody for whom being an assistant is the best job they’ve ever had, or the only job they want. Unless you really ARE an exploiter, you want somebody who can grow into another role over time.
My first job in the visual arts was as an assistant photographer, ie, I carried the bags. Then I showed him the pictures I took on my own time, and took his criticism. “Great eye, kid, but it takes many hundreds of photos to know what you’re doing in the darkroom.” He was right, of course.
My next step was taking the assignments he didn’t want (school board)…and from there into editorial and layout, and on and on until I owned my own company. But the only reason my boss hired me is because he knew I was at least a decent photog and that I wanted his job.
Oh yeah, and things I learned from those lame school board meetings, and hanging in the newsroom and listening to reporters laugh at candidates and hacks helped me make political consulting and campaign management a big part of my business.
I started that first job making nothing.
This is similar to how — what’s that you say? Bob ZELIN??? — Zelin and other people I know got their start. Working for next to nothing at a job that was NOT their goal, but enough to get them in the door. They moved up because they asked a lot of questions, and started doing jobs nobody else wanted.
So to me, this driver/editor job listing falls into the categories of, “Fun to mock,” and “If you don’t want it, don’t take it,” but most important, “Wow, I remember those days! It was gruesome, but it got me where I am today.”
Consider it a Rorschach test. Are you closer to the beginning of your career, or closer to DEATH? Because hey, that’s how it went, and that’s how it goes.
Yr pal,
TimmyTim Wilson
Creative Cow Magazine!My Blog: “Is this thing on? Oh it’s on!”
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I started in the mail room. It was my one job offer and I was thankful to have it. I got a low rent bachelor pad in swanky Naugatuck, CT and put my best foot forward.
Thankfully I had learned how to operate and troubleshoot CMX and Sony online edit bays in college and could use a waveform and vectorscope to time decks, and when an opportunity became available, I was given a shot.
Nowadays technical skills are not in as great demand, but an entry level job remains elusive for many recent graduates because either they have nothing to show for their studies, they are not assertive, or some combination.
Mike Cohen
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I figured out how to make the editing process hands free. Become the Producer. 😉
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