[Murph222]

I can certainly relate to your problem.
I work for a university. One of our main clients is the Athletic Department. We produce 30 minute shows for football and basketball, plus recruiting videos and end-of-the-year highlight videos.
The problem is with our other clients. Let’s say our “News” department, for example, wants a video. A new provost will be meeting with honors students at a pizza party. You can imagine how dreadful that would be to watch(much less, edit.) Without fail, they complain that their videos aren’t as “exiting” as the sports videos. I have to hold back spewing profanity when they ask for “MTV Style.”
Too often, flash is used to cover up a lack of content, but I can see where you are trying to go with your material. I think trying to customize your Jumpbacks would help. I am not sure where your footage comes from, but if you work in more comments from the dogs in the field, maybe that would help?
My best friend did a few years working in AFRTS. I respect what you guys do.

[Murph222]

I work for West Virginia University. We now have 6 Avids. We got our first Media Composer in about 1996. We still have two complete CMX 3600s and I hope we never get rid of them. One is connected to our Grass 250 switcher, the other is in our studio control room. The one with the 250 works great. It’s sad that so many of our staff people are afraid of the CMX. I have seen guys spend a half a day digitizing commercials to make master reel. We intend to keep the systems running until they die. So far, they have outlasted about 10 revisions of Avid.