Timecode is so boring. Who wants to learn it anyway?

Yeah, right.

Unfortunately, this is the kind of attitude I sometimes find in new up-and-coming editors. They are so taken by the dramatic ability to add million dollar effects with one click, that it seems rather boring and old fashioned to worry about silly things like unique tape names, bin organization and whether timecode is enabled or not.

Of course this is a sweeping generalization, but it is one of the pitfalls of the democratization of content creation. It has become affordable and easy for anybody to get the hang of iMovie or some other application, to present themselves as an editor (with impressive showreel full of “borrowed” clips) and to get jobs for which they are not really qualified

~ by schmidtsk on April 30, 2008.