I was a news photographer back in the early 1980s and we always cut out own stuff. I think news photographers have pretty much ALWAYS been their own editors.
And one of the reporters I worked with - who went on to national Washington, D.C. coverage - used to tell me about using a lightstand as a stand-in for himself so he could frame and focus his own shot (in 16mm film), roll film, step into the shot, kick the light stand out of the way and do his own standups! So one-man banding it and so on is SERIOUSLY old news.
As for the best use of the technology, I don't think it's killing editors. I think it's giving a lot of great chances for editors. I know a lot of great editors in Chicago and around the country and this would let me work with good, real editors without having to have them drive (or be unable geographically) to work on a project.
This seems quite valuable - although it does open US post production up to "outsourcing." Hire a bunch of inexpensive editors from somewhere else and let them tap into the footage in LA or NY or Chicago. This has already happened with US animation which is largely done overseas in India or China.
Steve Hullfish
contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"
> >It eliminates editors, and makes news reporters, journalists and producers
> edit their own stories.
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