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Alan Farris
January 28, 2008 at 9:27 pm in reply to: Do you use Pathfire in your shop? Tell me about it?

Follow this link for a technology overview of pathfire, it even gives you a little tutorial of how it works. Includes some screen images as well

-Alan https://www.pathfire.com/child/techover/technology_overview.html
Alan Farris
January 28, 2008 at 9:18 pm in reply to: Do you use Pathfire in your shop? Tell me about it?

I’m video news editor so I use it mostly for receiving news material for daily broadcast. There website is very easy to use. Its has search fairly easy user interface. I cant give you an answer about pay thing, thats handle by the station I assume. My workflow goes like this. My producer gives pathfire/CNN for origin of video. I go to pathfire website sign in, find my video route it in to my computer. When I select my video in pathfire it creates a dub by downloading the video into preselected format set by station. As soon as dub is done I pull up Avid (I’d rather use FCP, but if it wasn’t for the instability of windows engineers wouldn’t have a job right?–easy people just a joke.) and capture my source. The whole process only takes a couple minutes. Not really sure if that answers your questions, but thats how I use it. You should contact pathfire to see if they can help you out, or locate someone by you that uses the service so you can see it in action.

-Alan
Alan Farris
January 26, 2008 at 4:00 am in reply to: Salary for News Editor

Nate, hope your sitting down for this. Im in the top 40 market (37-40) Competitive starting rate for an editor with 1 yr exp is 20k…. very lousy if you ask me. Its completely different in the post production world. In the news world editors are the bottom of the barrel.
Alan Farris
January 26, 2008 at 3:44 am in reply to: Library Footage

I dont know of a central listing, Being the footage is old its been archived. You will more than likely have to contact the network or studio who produced the shows.
Alan Farris
January 26, 2008 at 3:36 am in reply to: Do you use Pathfire in your shop? Tell me about it?

I use pathfire everyday for news. Haven’t had any bad experiences. I receive in MPEG2 codec. Service works great. It ought to since its CNN
Alan Farris
August 31, 2007 at 3:14 pm in reply to: new to biz

Thanks everyone for the GREAT advice. I’m going to put it to good use. I’m currently making the changes in how to be a “salesman” of my company.

Thanks
aefarris
Alan Farris
August 31, 2007 at 12:03 am in reply to: new to biz

If to much work was an issue I would have got job some time ago. Thanks for the advice.
Alan Farris
June 12, 2007 at 1:07 pm in reply to: final cut express sequence

Thanks for the info

Regards
aefarris