Re: [Avid-L2] Re: OT: Attention to Detail?

I was watching that awful group singing show - it was like American
Idol except for a glee club or barber shop quartet - and I saw a flash
frame. Nobody else in the family saw it, but I did. Our DVR allows us
to play back anything that is being watched and so we rewound it and
played it back in slow mo. Sure enough there it was. Just before that,
I saw some other editing mistake that I can't remember at the moment.
I think it was actually a CG with something like "First line of info
goes here. Second line of info goes here."

We like to complain about how crappy non-broadcast editing is, but the
crappiness is universal and pervasive. And it's really nothing new.
When I used to edit promos at a Chicago TV station, I'd find flash
frames all the time in major national TV shows, especially the sitcoms.

Nowadays, you can miss these things because of progressive displays,
but honestly, if you can't see a flash frame or a flash field, you
shouldn't be editing.

On Dec 29, 2009, at 10:29 AM, switthaus wrote:

> the term "bonehead" is just not used enough these days....great
> description!
>
> Scot
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "johnrobmoore" <bigfish@...> wrote:
> >
> > No this was 50 plus reels and 388 clips all getting video from the
> wrong source while the bone head just kept putting tapes in what he
> though was the source deck. I just can't see not noticing the color
> bars on the Avid monitor when capturing. I mean if you look at the
> screen to see which tape to load it's just a glance to the right to
> see the input video is color bars not video off tape.
> >
> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, guanacaa@ wrote:
> > >
> > > That assistant loaded the wrong reel, then crashed out on the
> couch. I've I've been exhausted enough to sleep through captures
> myself, but I always had enough sense of CYA to check my work
> afterwards.
> > > Shirley
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: John Moore <bigfish@>
> > > To: Avid L2 <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> > > Sent: Mon, Dec 28, 2009 7:40 pm
> > > Subject: [Avid-L2] OT: Attention to Detail?
> > >
> > >
> > > So I go to open up the new show and check the media and a bunch
> of clips start
> > > in color bars. Okay must be video after the bars. No WTF? Half
> the clips are
> > > either color bars or shuttling tape when played at normal speed.
> My question is
> > > how does somebody capture 388 clips, most of which are coming in
> as color bars
> > > and not notice? They had to be putting the tapes in but not ever
> looking at the
> > > screen of the avid. Should I give them the benefit of the doubt
> and assume if
> > > it had been 389 messed up clips they would have noticed?
> Meanwhile back to
> > > actually onlining the show. Bah Humbug.
> > >
> > > John Moore
> > >
> > > Barking Trout Productions
> > >
> > > Studio City, CA
> > >
> > > bigfish@
> > >
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