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Posted by phil-news-nospam on 09/21/05 19:01
In alt.tv.tech.hdtv quentinhudson@hotmail.com wrote:
| I have started a temporary contract position with a small multimedia
| company. Although, my main area is Windows support, I am constantly
| bothered by people wanting spliced and diced audio and video files.
| Although I am not familiar with either area, the audio editing software
| is fairly intuitive and I have got by. I am afraid with video tools
| (Avid and Premiere), I am lost.
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| I dont want to be able to do anything fancy, but if someone asks me to
| split an mpeg or an avi file of 2 hours into one chunk of 40 minutes
| and one of 1 hour 20, I want to be able to do it immediately. What is
| the simplest way to do this? I know there is a movie editor in XP too,
| but I couldn't even figure that one out.
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| If anyone can help, I would be very grateful.
If it is a multimedia, then the bulk of people doing work there, other
that support roles, sales, accounting, etc., should be people that have
experience, or at least training, in using multimedia tools. And most
of those tools these days are computer application software suites.
These tools are the things that should be doing this kind of work.
And the multimedia people should know how to use the tools.
While it seems you're getting some useful help from here in how to use
these tools yourself, my suggestion is that you think about how this
applies to your role. If you want to learn those tools, great ... the
more you can learn, the better. But is it really your job to explain
to multimedia people how to do what they should either already know how
to do? It sounds more like they are just trying to get you to do some
of their work for them, or to cover their a** for not really knowing
their job.
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