Charley King
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I have never set anything in stone. Some projects were music driven and I edited video to match. Some projects were video driven so I edited video and usually vo and music were added later. Some projects were vo driven and music was added in post scoring.
I just can’t believe you can set a standard that any one of these is going to always be first, and that is the only way to go.
Charlie
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You may note this is not a new technique. I don’t remember the first time it was used but the movie “Boston Strangler” with Tony Curtis and Henry Fonda used multiple screen in 1968. It was used to show several actions that were taking place at the same time, along with different views of the same scene, and as Mark stated it was a very expensive process to do on film.
Charlie
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[Jeremy Garchow] “But to some degree hasn’t this always been true?”
When an edit bay cost over $1 million to equip, you didn’t have as many people getting into the business cheap. You always had clients that wanted you to cut your prices, but when there was no one that could afford to do that and keep their payments up on their facilities, it was not a problem. Oh, and by the way, $1 million got you bare basics, not many frills.
Charlie
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OK, so I went a little overboard. I think I may be a little bit depressed as I watch a long and satisfying career come to an end. I really shouldn’t be pushing my minor depressing feelings on others.
I really don’t wish to say there are no artists anymore, the true professionals are still artists with better brushes than I had early in my career. My concern is that the labor market is being diluted with professional wannabe’s that see these tools as a shortcut to better products than hard work and true creative thought. It’s these people that make it harder for the true artists that are still trying to get quality into their product, and the clients that prefer cheap over quality.[Jeremy Garchow] “If the camera was in the right hands to begin with, these fixes wouldn’t be necessary, or need to be as drastic.”
That’s the point I am talking about. It brings back the old saying that was always the pet peeve of good editors, “He can fix it in post.”[Jeremy Garchow] “The video is very cool, what they don’t ruminate on is who is taking the still pictures and how good those have to be or how they need to be framed in relation to the video.”
Reminds me of the tests of tape products in the past. The tape Manufacturers would have demos on how well their product made things look, but they would use the best possible circumstances to use as the demo. I preferrred to bring along a video that was not shot under best conditions and see if it worked as well on that.
Sorry for the long post, but I have to vent sometimes.
Hang in there guys and make us dinosaurs proud of the tradition we are leaving behind.
Charlie
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Mark,
I totally agree, it blew me away too. I believe more than ever now that I have picked the right time to retire. It is truly obvious that I am really a dinasour. With the new age of software and video capabilities, the old time making equipment do what it was not originally designed to do in order to make things look better is past it’s time, and as a result so am I.We’ve been saying it for awhile now that computers have brought in a whole new set of production people. Anyone is capable now of creating pretty pictures, you don’t need an artist anymore.
For anyone that is not yet aware, my last day of regular work is September 11, after that I will be a civilian of liesure activities,
well, at least in name. My honey do list is pretty big and should keep me busy for a while.Charlie
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i just started this one, too. anyone have any insight how to stop it??
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All of the above.
I started at $1.30 and hour as a projectionist, since I knew film from working in theatres through high school. I had no TV skills since my real passion was music. I came off tour and my first daughter was born, I decided it was time to be a daddy. It was just pure luck or unluck whichever you may decide that brought me into television.
Learn every aspect as they say. You are much better at any part, if you know what all the other parts are doing. My goal as I started learning TV was to be a director, in small TV stations Director and TD are same person. As I grew into larger stations and systems, I found that to be a director I had to give up the TD part. I preferred playing with the toys, so I became an editor.
Now I create digital signage for a Las Vegas Hotel Casino chain which I joined to get out of the stress of the real world of television production, this chain is the largest in the world by the way. I create for 8 Las Vegas Casinos and control the signs for 5 of them, all from my little room at the Flamingo. I have on ocassion created video for all 40 of the Casinos in the chain worldwide.
I am retiring at the end of September, I’m tired, worn out, and with the corporate mentality, it ain’t fun no more, but I got a lot of memories through 46 years in the industry. I still love teaching others what I have learned, and even tho I am leaving I still learn something new everyday.
Never quit learning, that is the main thought for the day.
Charlie
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[Chris Brown] “there are digital signage products that have been sold the past few years that allow you to pipe in a signal, add your own branding around the screen, and supplement it with your own information feeds.”
I create Digital Signage for the largest Hotel Casino chain in the world. We don’t put our logo over other programming. We create our own messages and modulate them into special channels in-rooms. Our signage around the hotel are playback units that strictly display our own messages. The actual TV’s located in some areas broadcast strictly cable TV unaltered. So I am not sure what you are talking about.
Charlie
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If[Rob Sanchez] “But if I had a box of Wheaties in my office that I had no intention of selling and put my sticker on it, do you think that would be illegal?”
Illegal, maybe, maybe not. Unethical, probably so.
If I were Kellogg and saw a Post sticker on my box of Wheaties I would probably test it in court. Do you have the resources to fight Kellogg for your right to brand their product with your sticker?Charlie
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Looks to me like someone is giving specs without knowing what they are talking about. I would guess looking at the MPG2 specs (which are very low) that they will accept eitehr MPG1/VCD or the MPG2. Not both.
Charlie
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