Tom Prigge
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This is a little bit on topic ( I think). A few years ago I worked at a TV station in creative services. The boss’s son, a college student, interned with us one summer. I had given my notice and was encouraged to let him shoot and edit a commercial while I looked over his shoulder. It was an outdoor shoot on a lake, getting shots of a ginormous boat. After his first shot, I took a look and lo and behold, the footage had a nice blue cast to it. He had not white balanced the camera. No problem, he assured me, I can fix it when I edit with color correction. Which he could, since the boat was white and all he had to do was click on the eyedropper in his color correction filter. But I told him to shoot it again, this time correctly.
I noticed this same attitude from the kids fresh out of college. We can fix it in post they always said. Back in the day when we said that, our tongues were firmly planted in our cheeks. In fact, things can be fixed in post like never before. But that’s poor technique. In the days of machine to machine editing, if you came back with blue footage you were screwed.
Today’s NLEs and compositing programs have bred, in my humble, grumpy old man opinion, a generation that thinks video is easy, that the software will fix it. Or that just posessing the right gear is enough.
Now I’ll go back to sitting on my porch and frowning at the cars that go by–that’s what we gumpy old guys excel at.
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Peter and Ty,
Thanks for the advice.
Tom
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That’s a good idea, Ann. I’m the only one whio uses the computer, but it would save me a lot of hassle next time I get click happy.
I’m considering moving up to 6.0. I know the interface is slightly different. Would my custom layout still be available in 6.0? I’m guessing it would, except I would lose my beloved thumbwheels.
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I reset the workspace and that brought it back. There must be another way, especially since I had to move things around to get the UI the way I like.
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What I meant, my perspective, is this makes it easy to outsource to folks anywhere willing to work for much lower wages. It’s a global perspective.
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The first step–no, a giant leap–toward offshore outsourcing of editing, compositing, etc. IMHO
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Well, this is interesting: when I switched from list view to icon view, the sub bins were in the order I wanted them to be–Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc.
Not sure why changing the view did that, but I’m happy now and that is all that matters–at least to me.
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Bill,
This is the clearest explanation I’ve ever seen, and one that folks more versed in video than audio can understand. Which is more important–absorption or dispersion of sound waves?
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In response to Ty’s question about my situation, I’m considering dabbling in a little VO work on the side. I was a DJ back in the day of turntables and 45s, and have done VO work while working in video and at a TV station. I keep hearing that a closet with lots of clothes can work. Certainly not ideal, I know. I’m not interested in taking a portable booth tucked under my arm wherever I go. I would set it up in a closet. Everything I have read about these cube booths says they are fantastic–of course, that’s coming from folks selling them. That’s why I posed the question here, to get unbiased opinions. Has anyone here actually have experience with one?
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Well, now I’m having second thoughts. Thanks for the input, Ty.