More like ancient, like before they even introduced sound into film. I found 2 books written in the 40's and 60's that listed all these film tricks and hints, but by that time, I was done with video :\
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Ha, that's pretty great. I bet those film editing procedures have a very unique look about them. What made you quit filming in the first place? If I recall correctly, you worked at a tv station, right?
When cable TV got big here in the 1980's, they passed a law, saying for every 30 stations a cable company provides, there has to be at least 1 channel devoted for public use/access. Unfortunately a loophole in law let local officials negotiate with the cable providers... anyway, it wasn't a paid position I had there. I had to drive 45 minutes to get there, and use my cousin's address to register the show (you have to live in the the same area the cable company broadcasts in).
in 1999, both my videocameras got wetted in a storm heading West past Missouri. The Hi8 got fried, and the VHS camera eventually died after it's shutter started sticking, and the CCD lost a color.
Ugh, that sucks man. So eventually your equipment died and you gave up? Or was it something to do with those laws you mentioned?
Equipment died and I gave up. I tried using the studio cameras and equipment, but I took a second shift job, and I got scheduled for studio time in the mornings, right after rush hour when all the slow construction vehicles hit the road. The studio manager hated me from day one anyway... and using their editor was not an option for me, as it would either cut before or after where I had placed the timecode marker, by a couple of frames.
I used to borrow my buddy's editor and Hi8 to paste the show together with my old computer doing the audio mixing and effects, nothing special just Goldwave and Windows media player. I only got to do A/B rolls (two video sources synched playback) in editing suites, which are mad expensive, and mostly for music videos. In the studio I could do that on the fly, so long as I was in the control booth, and both cameras were locked up. I helped produce 3 shows for other people there, but no helped me with my show :(
Wow, so much went wrong at the same time there. The editing sounded tricky. Sucks that nobody helped you out there. Some gratitude... You still got those tapes correct? That's what you needed the camera for, am I right?
Yep, you got it. Once Bush Jr. stole the White House (probably not a bad thing considering how twisted Al Gore turned out to be) the economy went into a corner and hid. The guy I used to produce shows with at the studio slowly gave it up, as his wife from China finally made it here. Plus the internet was becoming mainstream (co-opted by commercialism), which made fringe cable channels even more irrelevant.
._. I wore a brown fedora in my VHS movie, so there's no rush to get that transferred lol. That got finished in 1996 I think, but it taught me lots and got me work afterwards...
Haha nice! My god, that's almost 20 years ago! Will you even be able to recognize yourself?
Sadly, yes. Almost looked like Tom Fuise in Born on the Forth of July; long hair, mustache, weird lids (hats)... I'd like to edit the fat out of that flick I made (Cannabis Happiness), see if any roses can bloom from the shit. Plus it'd be a great practical learning experience with whatever software I end up with... just sucks comparison shopping.
VicariousE
Better a glut of USB than a bunch of oddball adapters, which require constant swapping about.
Congrats on building a full service production studio (minus video), The best rig I had, was pretty piss poor by today's standards, and not that crash hot back around 2000 either. It did teach me to be more innovative. I was kinda shocked to see a lot of optical/video tricks I reasoned out, were used by professionals long before I was born.
Whirlguy
Cool, you mean that your tricks were old fashioned?