Video Editing Through the Ages

Written, Directed, Produced, Sound Designed, Scored, Edited by and Starring Shaun "Stumpy" Mullins. Featuring the co-hortness of "camera caveman" and narrator Glenn Haley, this 1992 timeline tour of editing marks major milestones of the craft that most now take for granted. It can be said that VETTA clearly predicted the future of "cut & paste" (& staple) nonlinear editing itself long BEFORE it was ever a gleam in Mac/Apple's eye! Sadly, the editor of today employs mostly self indulgent & plagiaristic pre-programmed cookie cutter template techniques that basically serve to elevate three and a half year-olds to Academy Award winning status. Listen carefully to the tail end of the "scissors" scene as Shaun mumbles "Pre-Read is BLASPHEMY!" If you get THAT particular inside the industry joke, then you simply haven't been in this business for more than a decade. You're probably still young, naive & full of optimism as you'll never have to create a tape to tape, three machine roll dissolve while dealing with a nasty Sub Carrier to Horizontal Phase shift because the matchcut point locked onto the wrong color frame! (Wimps!) A BIG THANKS to Shaun Mullins of Propellerhead Media, Buffalo, NY for preserving this record of how it (REALLY) used to be.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Video
• Editing
• Caveman
• Mockumentary
• Documentary
• Comedy
• Short
• SEV
• Propellerhead
• Buffalo

[ShaiDrori]

not funny not factual, waste of my time. waste of hard disk space etc

[QuickieNirvana]

Obviously you weren't an linear online editor in the early 1990's before computers made it possible to for 12 year olds to skip any kind of training and proceed directly to creative looking drag & drop templates. You probably don't know even know what pre-read was or why it was blasphemous. Everyone's a critic and that's the whole point of dragging stuff like this out of the dumpster. Be grateful that you'll never know the Hell of a sub carrier to horizontal phase shifts or color framing jumps.

[derick1259]

@ShaiDrori waste of your hard disk space? wtf?

[frankensteinmoneymac]

Great! having done quite a bit of hobby to semi-pro video editing in my life I can appreciate the humor here! Very well done!

[ShaiDrori]

Know what pre-read is, graatedful to work pal 25 and not ntsc 29.97df, worked on 2" quad, worked on beta, went through hell trying to get early nle audio to sync to video. Been there done that, you're still not funny

[kimberlyKfnOphiEAGLE]

Funny, yes, but not factual.

[jxander55]

brilliant!!! mustve had a lot of time on your hands

[aatragon]

My job in a nutshell