Comments on: PVC: Please label tapes and disks: An open letter to DPs, camera ops, DITs

By: editblogadmin

editblogadmin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:22:55 +0000

Holy moly … that’s a pile ‘o tapes!

By: Ray Roman

Ray Roman — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:43:24 +0000

Oh god, I really need to do this immediately or before filming.. I found myself putting this step off and winding up with a stack of unlabeled tapes!! and I mean.. A STACK!!

http://www.twitpic.com/6ps3w

By: editblogadmin

editblogadmin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:52:48 +0000

Hmm…. sorry about that Ben. I checked the setting for that and it is set to show the whole post and not a summary. Hopefully that will be fixed in the new WordPress update.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:19:19 +0000

My motto: an unlabeled tape is a blank tape.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:37:47 +0000

Thumbs down for all the recent posts that require clicking through from the RSS feed to read. Even more so when the article is only one sentence longer than the summary.

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:06:20 +0000

I must confess that there have been times where I did not label the tape – but that was only in cases where there was only a single tape, and I had checked with the reporter who needed to catch a plane.

When sending a harddisk, I always include a readme.txt which gives a description of the content.

What I would love occasionally is to get feedback from editors, as to what they think of the the footage. And more importantly, how we as cameramen could make your job as editor easier.

In a perfect world, the editor would get to talk to the cameramen before starting the edit, so that the cameraman could brief him/her as to what is on the tape, what was important to the cameramen, etc. Heck, that’s why I love working with my wife as an editor