Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Too Good A Job Issue?

My favorite is when that are "frame-F-ing" you.
I make the minor change, add a few extra key strokes that do nothing,
then end with Command-Z to put me right back where things started.
"How's that look now?" They say "Much better."
Best example is a promo producer I worked with. I add a 15 frame dissolve . . .
She says, "Make it 12." I bang on the keys, ending back at a 15 frame dissolve.
Now it's "Perfect."
This was the same one that had me using a bed of Enya-esque, flow-y, dreamy music and told me to "cut to the beat."

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On Aug 5, 2011, at 2:09 PM, Steve Pomerantz wrote:

> I used that trick for years with a certain network program exec. He never caught on, and spent his entire tenure at the place thinking I was the idiot in the equation. I could also throw him completely off his track by complimenting his tie.
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> Steve Pomerantz
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> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Roger Shufflebottom <rogershuff@...> wrote:
> >
> > No, it's not that - the producer needs to feel he's made a contribution of some sort - so use the old trick of leaving one glaringly obvious mistake. Producer spots it, you thank him and fix it the way you planned in the first place. All editors do this (don't they?).
> >
> > On 5 Aug 2011, at 20:26, Gajit wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > and...if it was shot gritty, the producer would have wanted you to clean it up...kinda like polishing a turd.
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