Re:Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Acr...
by KaiserPro on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @03:57PM
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mostly its down to them fiddling.
editors _fiddle_ but then don't take responsibility for what they've done.
The monitor issue its a two-for-one. The editor was doing a technical edit, that is matching some shots up to someone else's spec. They were proxies(as in small previews to make the machine run faster) and were not graded.
What they had done is fiddle with the room lights, because they wanted to make the room feel better. Obviously this made the monitor look more blue.
My college (who is a junior, in a junior department) gets an angry phone call because the workstation isn't up to par.
Its a lot of dick waving for no real gain.
Another fun one was in about 2009 an editor decided for a quick preview edit that it would be quicker and easier to laser out a digital shot to film, cut and splice by hand on a stienbeck, and then re-scan it in.
We had all the shots loaded on the workstation.
Not all editors are like this. but there are enough to give them a bad name.
editors _fiddle_ but then don't take responsibility for what they've done.
The monitor issue its a two-for-one. The editor was doing a technical edit, that is matching some shots up to someone else's spec. They were proxies(as in small previews to make the machine run faster) and were not graded.
What they had done is fiddle with the room lights, because they wanted to make the room feel better. Obviously this made the monitor look more blue.
My college (who is a junior, in a junior department) gets an angry phone call because the workstation isn't up to par.
Its a lot of dick waving for no real gain.
Another fun one was in about 2009 an editor decided for a quick preview edit that it would be quicker and easier to laser out a digital shot to film, cut and splice by hand on a stienbeck, and then re-scan it in.
We had all the shots loaded on the workstation.
Not all editors are like this. but there are enough to give them a bad name.