Friday, August 12, 2016

Re: [Avid-L2] TV editors opinions desired

 

This is the natural progression when was any technical expertise becomes obsolete. 


Editing, as a technical expertise, will be obsolete very soon. One might argue that is already obsolete outside of broadcast and high-end post facilities. That is, anywhere where image quality is not critical.

Editing as a creative expertise will survive but the people who do this job will change. Outside of high-end work, the job title is likely to disappear. "Editing" will become a subsidiary task of other professions. Directors and Producers and Journalist already have creative "editing" skills. We are all just "storytellers." These people only lacked a technical craft, one that is no longer difficult to acquire.

The term "Preditor" was created by threatened editors. It is already on the way out. These people are simply producers who can now do their own editing. They have always existed. There are just more of them now.

If you are an editor and you want to keep working, it's time to become an "educer." Tortured, I know. But you get the point.

Cheers,
              tod




On Aug 12, 2016, at 3:56 AM, Oliver evildead@gmail.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


Hi!

I've been a lurker here for a decade or so but I was hoping some of you might want to chime in with your ideas of the future of the tv editing.

Basically, the back story is that I'm an video editor and manager of a dozen or so editors at a TV station in Switzerland, and I'm assuming that the direction in which editing is the same elsewhere as well, journalists doing more of their own editing, less investment in infrastructure, less focus on the craft and more on technology, file handling, etc. These subjects have been preoccupying the 50 or so editors we have here for years now, and in September we're having a brainstorming/future day, and one of the things I think might be helpful is to get some perspective from others in the same situation. It always seems like we're in a vacuum here, and every TV station figures out what they do for themselves, creating redundancies and missed opportunities.

Basically my idea was to have share a small questionnaire among those interested, maybe 5 or 6 questions, and share the results with our editors in September, and of course with the avid list as well.

Anyone out there interested in taking part? I'd be very interested to hear how everyone else around the world is coping...

Thanks,
Oliver

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