Charley King
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The thing to be careful of is that most analog audio DA’s have a tendency to round off the waves, time code needs to be square to read properly. If the waves are rounded it can cause some errors in readings.
Charlie
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Hey guys,
Don’t feel so bad, I finally retired my old Avid Express 2.2
and am working with combinations of Premiere Pro, and Vegas Video. Between the two of them I can get a job done. Keep in mind I am no longer doing broadcast for the most part. God, I remember how I use to talk to my equipment to keep it up and running. You do bring back memories.Charlie
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I like softwalls grey fabric covering fiberglass insulation for the walls, it is neutral grey and makes the room literally a head cold room (sound is like you are suffering from a head cold, really dead). I like track lights for client work areas, and little lites for my work area desk, and as Grinner said big bright florescents for engineering work, keeping in mind these are only turned on when working on equipment.
Since my head is in my monitors and I mean my head is literally in my monitors, anything else that doesn’t affect monitor color balance, or glare is optional.Charlie
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[Monica F.P.Williams] “the professional level of Producers and Directors I worked with was much higher (sorry I don’t want to be mean but this is the era when a lot of people wake up in the morning and say “guess what! I am a Filmmaker”)”
Monica, I think I’m in love.
You just brought back so many memories. Not only are you so on track with that line, but I have said for years, going back to Live black and White Television Days, for the most part, camera operators were better then, cause you had to be, you only had one chance to get it right. the first award I ever got was for editing a film for a live documentary. We didn’t have the capability of editing tape, so the field footage was edited and rolled in live with the live announcers doing the narration. I didn’t know how to use a sound reader, couse I had no training before this production. I would listen to it on a projector, then take it off and look at the optical track and see the wave form to find where my edits were. Video Tape made a big differece, but it was still as tho it was live, no editing capabilities.
Then there came along Editec, WOW waht a concept, no longer did the Operator have to cut tape with a blade and a magnifying glass. Anyone remember the liquid with metal fibres you brushed on to see the frame pulses?
I’m not saying I am better because I had to do with less equipment, I am just saying it is a lot easier for someone to get into the business and produce, direct, shoot, and edit today. Personally I miss the times we had finding ways to make the equipment do things it wasn’t actually designed to do. Now we do it with software, not really bad, jsut not as much fun.
Sorry I don’t get many chances to remember how it was. So back to the regularly scheduled program.Charlie
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Doesn’t everyone do this?
You are absolutely correct that you don’t do anything to the scenes til the last pass. That’s when you see how each scene plays to the scene next to it, and only then can you feel what it needs, to make it flow. The story tends to build itself and dictate what it needs to make it happen, when you give it all it has, then cut it back to what it should be.Charlie
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[Mike Cohen] “No offense to COW members who work on these shows – it’s not your fault networks do crazy things.”
You have to remember that network people have no creativity. Keep in mind I mean any creativity, be it good or bad. So someone creative designer had to come up with the concept at one time or another. As I stated earlier, I jut turn off the show I am watching and set my mind to not watch the one being promoted.
There are enough distractions to ruin a good program (is that an oxymoron? good program on network tv?) without running promos during the programs.I wish we could come up with a good national boycott to all programs that run promos during the programs.
Charlie
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Grin,
I’ve been thinking about my current mental state. Your comment about my not having ever been this glum made me think.You remember how you are on such a high while in a project, and when it is finished, you suddenly are on a real downer, until the next project starts.
I think that is what is happening. I am nearing the end of my career, I have spent 45 years on a tremendous high. If asked about my life and if I would change anything? Yes, there are always things you will think back and wish you had done that one thing differently, overall NO WAY. I have been riding the best, fastest, highest, roller coaster most people could only hope for. I’ve seen the world from the highest mountains, snd looked up at the sky from the greenest valleys. Now it is time to bring this to slow down, but then all good things must end. I hope I can find consultant work ocassionally to keep my fingers in the business that I have loved for so long, but the high is over, I just need to figure how to raise the low to an even field.
If I got out totally, I would go out of my mind. A creative mind can’t be left without something to create.
I’ll be hanging around for about another year, but as many may have noticed by my absences from the COW, I am slowing down.
I love this group, and hope to remain a part of it for a long time to come.Charlie
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[Pixel Monkey] “Absolutely the HUGEST pet peeve of 2007 is being distracted during a television program when the network keys-over the entire bottom-right of the screen with some giant, live-action animation promoting the date/time of some other program I have no intention of watching.”
Amen!!!!!
I don’t ever watch a program that is promoted that way, and usually don’t even finish watching the one the promo came in over. My way of boycotting the concept, not that it accomplishes anything.
Actually, I still believe in the concept that effects are supposed to be transparent, in other used to fix a problem, not distract from the video, so any unmotivated effect bothers me.
Charlie
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The memories this thread brought up will live with me forever. Having started 45 years ago in black and white live TV. We have come a long way in some areas and digressed ever farther in others. I remember our first Video Tape Machine, our first Zoom lens, (wow no more racking lenses and you can move from here to there without even moving.) then came Character Generators, no more menu boards or telops (bet there aren’t many out there that remember telops.)for graphics, or no more, the big drum with the credits wrapped around it to do a credit roll. then came the Ampex editor, wow! we didn’t need the microscope and metal shavings brushed on the tape to find the frame pulses to edit with a block and blade. Seems it was not that many years later that computer editors started coming along so we could do linear editing from tape to tape without even screwing up the master tape. Now we have non-linear editors on every home computer sold, everyone is an editor/director/producer/camera/audio engineer, even script writer.
Somehow it just isn’t the same. When everyone can do it, it is no longer a skilled career. I don;t mean to sound bitter, I still love teaching the younger generation how we did it, and how we always felt it should be done to have a little quality in the project. I still think quality means something, even if the powers that be don’t care about quality.OK, enough of my soap box. I still love what I do, it just isn’t as much fun anymore.
Grinner, I was crying myself reading your Texas trip. I try everytime I go back to see something from my childhood. Like when I went to Longsworth, outside Sweetwater to see the old 2 room schoolhouse where I went to second grade. Couldn’t find it, asked a guy out in his yard where the schoolhouse was, he told me, “there ain’t none.” that is sad when yuor school has been torn down and never rebuilt.Well, enough of this.
Charlie
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[Jon Barrie] “If they are BetaSP analogue that could be it?”
I’ve been in television production for 45 years and never saw that from a Beta SP. It isn’t there til I have deopped it into the Premiere Pro Timeline, then it voila. As I said, it looks like the old 3/4 Head switch.Charlie