Average Age !

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Charisma Productions
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What age group are editors,,,are they ol` duffers or bright sparks !
33 here !!!!(bright duffer)

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38 and counting

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Barry Hunter
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A very juvenile 56!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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SIFI
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Alan Roberts at work
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magicvision
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demon of dirt
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20 ha

and even at that ive been churning out flicks from 10

started off hired vhs-c cam to vhs

then evovled to editing hi-8 onto vhs then dubbing it using a cheapie auido mixer onto ANOTHER vhs deck thus creating the most lo-res productions ever

nowadays of course im fully dv all round

(tho only got my dv card last month, before that i had been using a voodoo3500 (spit) to capture stuff UNCOMPRESSED cuz thats all it could handle without crashing and editing in a realllly old videostudio, actually a vid i made that way got 10,000 views on my website and more on another website i let use it pro grais like)

im hoping my next to sell my next vid and hopefully upgrade from my borrowed low-end jvc dv & £30 dazzle dv card (pc werld returned stock)

edit: why i gave my autobiography when u asked for ppls ages is beyond me

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Stuart B-M
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39, (Tim you make me sick )

Regards all.

Frink
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its cos you're only 20. you'll learn...

just wait another 2 years til you're truly worldly wise and, to quote from one of the greats, "a sexual tyrannosaur... like me!"

yes, by then you'll have learnt that even *three* paragraphs is too many. D'OH!

-f

p.s. and no, humour doesn't improve with age. natch.

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just gone 28

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Shakey
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45 years young!

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NoooOOoo !!!

Sorry but its my 40th in March and im not your average piscian, apart from the artie bit (always enjoyed art at school, even tried the montie python "beans sketch" laying on the tabletops using powder paint as an alternative (my art teacher didn,t see the creativity tho )

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SIFI
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Not relevant to the topic, but two flaming folders for Mr Charisma.

SIFI

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25 this Thursday.

What's to become of us.... What is to become of us?

Steve Allen
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cheers

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ChrisG
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42 -doesn't that ring a bell with Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy?

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another flamer, well done.

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Bob Bowles
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73 Bought first apple ITT20 in 79 Ist Mac in 84

buckers
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My average age is 27 (this being the mean of my mental and physical ages)

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Paul Rossi
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Just gone 50 and I retire in 3 weeks - way to go!

But mentally still nearly 22 and vowed to never grow up.

You can't edit what you haven't got.

Ned Cordery
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68 on the outside, 27 on the inside.

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Charisma Productions
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Ok now the reason !

It seems that most people here would have progressed through different stages of technology with age,,cine/vhs linear and now NLE....people who have done this seem to have the most trouble with NLE...(& computers !)...and of course there is the cost !...I got into editing 5yrs ago starting with the Mx1 mixer and edit station.(amiga for titles !).at that time the only `tweaking` was pre/post roll times...the advance to NLE was a steady one(9hours rendering to watch a postage stamp size image !)..I also found that I needed to understand computers in order to aid my editing(harder than mx1)..this I have done.
How difficult was it for you guys of the more mature nature(see how nice i put that)to progress to NLE ?
there is a couple of guys in my area who cannot cope with NLE, and decided the nearest they would get was the `casablanca thingy mi jig`...it`s simple, and ready to go and does the job for them....
Anyone here used scissors within there editing ???????

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I honestly thought SIFI was in his early 80`s....nice1 m8 you surprised me !

pcwells
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I'll be 30 next Tuesday.

I'm almost a grown-up.

Pete

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quote:Anyone here used scissors within there editing ???????

Yes.

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quote:Originally posted by Charisma Productions:
I honestly thought SIFI was in his early 80`s....nice1 m8 you surprised me !

WHY

SIFI

Simon

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Rampant use of Scissors declined when I bought one of those trimmer things from Staples.

Mark Dicker
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Turned 30 last month

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56 years old.
When I was an Assistant Producer at the BBC in 1979 I had to supervise editing of 2" tape. Although some machines at this time were capable of electronic 'cuts' only edits it was not unusual for the editor to get out his razor blade to 'do a quick slash'. Just like editing film without being able to hold it up to the light to see the pictures!

Progressed through all the various developments to the present day.

Still employed producing TV for a living and, at work, am equally at home editing on tape or NLE (Avid). At home, I'm now using an NLE - Discreet's EditDV - for hobby and occasional PJ's, something I could never have dreamed of all those years ago!

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derek

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Anyone beat 79?
Bob.

Arthur.S
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49 & a bit. But mentally, still 14.

Alan Craven
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No, but can anyone beat 12+ years retired (from physics teaching)at 59?

I have gone all the way from literally cutting and pasting to edit manuscript drafts to Word 2000 in 31 years - back then golf-ball typewriters were the wonder of the age!

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52 trying to act half of that and failing miserably.

robo
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48, but not very often.

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mbridge
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31 last year, been editing on computers for 2-3 years before that, 2 years or so linear, still use linear alot at work, on machines that are probably nearly as old as me! (Low band Umatic) but would not recommend it.

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49 moved to Wedding videos from photography in 1982. Those were the days, Umatic recorders the size of suitcases and batteries to build up your muscles. Ahhh progress

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48 years heading for 49

AUDIO
I bought my first tape recorder from the Exchange & Mart in 1965.

I bought my first cassette recorder in 1973

I ran a mobile Disco from 1978 to 1982

VIDEO
I bought my first V8 camcorder in 1992 & edited with my trusty Panasonic NV-F75.

COMPUTER
I bought my first Windows 3.11 computer in June 1995 (Escom P75)

COMPUTER VIDEO & AUDIO
I bought my first D8 in 1999 & was into NLE from September 1999 with the trusted ADS Pyro & VS3.

How times have changed

Regards

John Price
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PETERH
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55 and trying to reconcile my inner child with my forthcoming outer pensioner...

been "crash" editing since 1980, with "portable" recorder & seperate camera

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Fifty Five, and still work 24 hour shifts when cars have to be at the cicuit Sat morning and the engines on the bench Fri afternoon, I told the boss my new year resolution was not to work more than 14 hrs,trouble is he is much to good a boss and nice guy to let him down next time!!!.Pete.

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47, But now I want to backwards.Built my first transmitter when i was 12 (OC45 & 2 x OC81 ).Covered most of the Medium wave all at once (and God knows what with the harmonics)As an afterthought, Did the name "Charisma" find it`s origins with :
A. Because you are an eccentric character
B. A record label
C. You have a kinship to The mad hatter on that record label ?

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(And this thread gets the 'quickest flaming folder ever' award by a mile!)

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Seems like im the youngest at newly turning 19, but I know chiefhebrew is younger than me at 16. Carry on the good work grandads.

james f

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I started with Ektachrome Commercial 16 mm EI of 25 tungsten and 16 (I think)with a Wratten 85. Which all means we needed loads of light to shoot in factories even when pushed one stop. We edited on a Steenbeck (luxury)with a cutting copy, A and B rolling the master. The arrival of 16 mm negative was a revelation. Today is a huge improvement, I love my G4/FCP2/DVCAM set up, I can do things that were unimaginable in those old days. It's all in the mind not the age.

These are great times,

Ned Cordery
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Guzman
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Last time I looked at a calendar is was 46

but my wife has always been 29 Why !!!!

Charisma Productions
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Wow...there is a few years of life there !
I am just so glad that there are people like me...I have spent the last 5yrs thinking that I was the twin of a trainspotter !
Very difficult in a social place to talk about resolution or fps !...just wish I could watch a film without watching the titles or edits !!! it kinda spoils it...even if spielberg has cut it !...Good luck all for the year ahead !...and remember to set the standards for others to follow, dont look for an opportunity....create one !

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61 Scissors? yes and with white gloves on too NLE never presented any problems as it seems to be modelled on the old adage ;shovels sxxx faster'
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I built my own PC 5 years ago for NLE after crawling round the floor with video recorders and a Thumbs editor, graduating to another box before the PC. It’s been upgraded until the only remaining item is the Matrox Marvel G200 now just being used as a graphics card. Fitted an Asus firewire card last Feb and never looked back. The PC is used for CAD, home accounts, word processing and photo manipulation as well as NLE, constant defrags keeps the BLUE SCREENS at bay.

I retired in 1992.

Paul

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46 - to my amazement! As a young(er) man, thought I'd never get past 40...

Hi Flier
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50 last birthday. Scissors...sounds right.When I was editing standard 8 I bought a fancy Canadian splicer trimmer thingumy-jig only problem was after much careful scraping off of the celuloid, lining up and pressing down, the kodak glue would part company with the splice and one would have to begin all over again.
Now I whistle through my edits on my NLE system (my fifth to date)without as much as a thought for glue and scissors. Oh happy days.

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Derek/Delski, remember the "developing fluid" for 2" tape? Those were the days, eh? I also use EditDV/Cinstream for preference over all others I've tried (Premiere, Ulead Video Studio, MC Express and a few others) and have just got it working in XP by removing the OHCI card, installing CS3 with it set for the Lynx card but with no card installed, then installing the Lynx card. Now it all works, including pint-to-tape but I have to live without OHCI and the "Standby/Hibernate" options on power down. Now just waiting for version 3.1, 3.2,... 4, whatever it takes to get OHCI support fixed in XP.

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60.

Starting about 10 years ago with an Amiga 1200 and KRP Edit Plug, no I tell a lie, I started with the start/stop on a VCR.

Eventually progressed to a PC, and now use a Matrox RT2000 and P6.

It is nice to see a full range of ages now working on NLE, between us we must have 100`s of years experience, from film to video.

Dave

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'Over 50' - in case you hadn't guessed - but not yet 52.

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i'm 18!

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Alan
I'll leave it to you to explain why it needed developing fluid and a microscope as well as a sharp razor blade to edit tape in the 70's!
Oh, and also the role played by a sturdy thumbnail when you got a head clog during a live transmission!!
Cheers,

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58 going on 30!

Retired 6 years ago, then 3 years ago, then 1 year ago and hope to again in the future.

Martin

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But made first super 8 movie with Playmobil figurettes at the age of 8. It was a brilliant masterpiece on a terrifying accident on the Playmobil Circus ground.

First PC, Spectrum ZX with 48K memory. They had great games on that machine but no Adobe After Effects 5.5. After that a Philips MSX (bad!), Amiga 500 (very cool, did first video captures on it) a P166, a P300 and now drooling over dual Athlon system

Phew

Hendrik

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Yeah I remember the white gloves Des, still have them in fact.

The callenge was to always try to extract far more out of the cine equipment than it was designed to do, and I am pleased to say I had some limited success.

Superimposed and coloured titles were a nightmare (but not impossible). Before a shoot I used to make lith film contact prints of Letraset titles on acetate (to get the negative) mount them in slide mounts and then with a home made slide holder shoot them in macro on my Canon 1014E, using various coloured sweet wrappers to get the desired colour. Yellow toilet paper actually gave the best results and I still like yellow titles to this day. I'd then rewind the film (in camera - wow!!) but only by a limited number of frames, 5 - 7 seconds worth I think it was, and then shoot the scene with a mask where the title was.

It only took me several hours to do what I can now do in a few seconds.

But boy was it fun, and although hard to believe these days, the audience reaction back in 1980 really was amazing.

As I'm down memory lane, does anybody remember Harry Garlick? He once made a radio microphone which he demonstrated by walking round in the street outside Colne Cine Club. I bought it from him for £10 - still have that too (but I don't use it!!). It was VHF of course and worked extremely well (as all of Harry's products did), but the frequency was just next to that used by Radio 2. You had to carry a transister radio with you tuned to nearly Radio 2 and plug a lead from the headphone socket to the camera (in my case a Braun Nizo 7). Trouble was if anybody was listening to Radio 2 in the area my soundtrack would belt out instead.

Eeeee you kids don't know yer born.....

So I guess that when you have been used to doing all that kind of stuff, moving to NLE was like a walk in the park - but it probably did help being PC literate.

Paul

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You can't edit what you haven't got.

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I think I'm 45 but my memory is not what it used to be.

Super 8 onwards, thru Hi8 and all manner of tape-based Sony and Pinnacle disasters... So I'm perhaps one of the minority who's used razor blades and splicing tape (albeit only, I think, for audio tapes).

John Young
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Splicer and Cement, for BBFC Censor Cuts on 35mm and some 70mm prints.

John.

tom hardwick
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56. With great age comes lots of experience - it's hard to avoid it. It can be painfully and expensively bought, but there really is no substitute.

tom.

alan eades
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73...arrived here via Sinclair MK14 (memories anyone?), Spectrum, various Amigas(sob) including 3000T and 1200.

One significant change in editing costs over time is that back in the 8mm film days, equipment was relatively cheap and media expensive; now the tables have been turned.

Alan

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I've just used Excel to work out my average age and it's 25.5yrs!

Bob C

Bob Bowles
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Charisma You think us older guys had more trouble than youngsters with NLE & Computers. If you had used Macs for a start, and I have toyed with PEE C's and abandoned them the route was fairly easy. You have only to see the Mac Forum with the relative paucity of problems with NLE & computer configuration compared to Wintel This thread has told me much about collleagues. Bob

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I dont think I`ve suggested any debate with regards to the better platform pc/mac...`AVERAGE AGE`>>>the learning curve and technique changes over time was what I was looking for, and judging by the responce most have contributed there thoughts on that subject....thanks guys.

Whatever the platform/ whatever the technology at hand...the end result is always judged on content...!

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59 I tell my sons I still feel like an eighteen year old (but can't get one) Took me a while to learn Premiere by my self.Our youngest son said "I don't know why you bother dad,you'll be dead before you learn it".The sickener was when he and his friend the first time at NLE said "It's really obvious how this works isn't it!

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44 but I'm a Vulcan so equivalent to about 30 for humans.
Live Long and Prosper.

Alan Roberts at work
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I hope you're doing the averaging on this set of data. We're waiting to see the result

dacquinh
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Born as a scientist I can conclude from these figures the following:

- 50% of the people are under their thirties
- 50% over 45

This means that the age range between 30 and 45 has absolutely no interest in video editing or Casablanca. This can be sociologically explained by the presence of certain parameters which get in the way of video editing (or Casablanca), which are in chronological order:


  • raising of kids
  • going to harry potter movies with aforementioned kids
  • going on a bike ride with another happily married couple on sudays
  • spending time in or flower arrangement workshops
    [/list]

Statistically speaking there is a point of no return at the age of 50 where one realises that painting flower pots is not the way to go and starts mesmerising the days where he had everything in control. Some scientist call this process retirement.

Prof. Dr. Hendrik E. I. N. Dacquin

Bibliography:
- Analysis of a man and his video-editing system (Journal of molecular behaviour, XII, 1999)
- Casablanca: a video-editing system, you must be kidding (Brain, Behaviour and Video Review, II, 2001)
- The clinical aspects of flower potting and the philosopher stone (American National Institure of silly movie reviews)

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quote:Originally posted by dacquinh:

- 50% of the people are under their thirties
- 50% over 45

I'm 29. Guess I'll be out of here in a few months!

H and M Video
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quote:Originally posted by Charisma Productions:
What age group are editors,,,are they ol` duffers or bright sparks !
33 here !!!!(bright duffer)

63 and a "duffer" or a "bright spark" depending upon what software/hardware being used! 16 to go!

Harry

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Do I get a free dvd recorder if I reach the magic 100 ?????

It seems that editing is a job/hobby for almost any age group.....I was surprised to see that not many women are involved in video production...I expect they all want to be in front of the camera !...either way It`s a field that I think most would do well in...emotion is better from a women, so I guess christenings/weddings would take on a whole new perspective....or maybe women dont like to give there age..(honestly !)

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This all goes to prove 'you can teach an old dog new tricks'.

Chirpy. (you old dog you!)

P.S. Why isn't this in the 'Chatter' forum?

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Chirps,,,the reason it`s not chatter me ol` fruit is I was just wondering how video editors had coped with the change over time from scissors to Mouse !....and where the good old days really that good or just a pork pie coz we were not there to say different !

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All I will say is that delski, Alan Roberts (at work or not) and Tom Hardwick were all born in a great year. Oh all right, then, 56.

Was given a Standard-8 cine camera as a 21st birthday present and have been 'editing' (yes, including with scissors!) ever since - via Super-8 cine, thence to video with VHS-C, thru Hi-8 and now DV. Amiga/KRP-based editing kept me a(be-)mused for many years - and was corresponding with John Farrar (also present in this thread - hi John!) well over a decade ago. Still spend more time config'ing/tweaking my PC (now DVStorm/Premiere6) than I do editing, hence the stack of unedited tapes (and even cine reels!).....

Alan++

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PS - happy birthday, tilski!

Jack Ellis
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Just started drawing my pension---65

Enjoying every minute of it even when I find myself in the mire.
Computer Video has been a great help.

Jack Ellis

BirtyBoy1
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Oh well 41, never mind average age are there and lady editors.

Phil

KeithReeman
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62 and rising (sometimes)

Started with Super8 God knows how long ago. Video8 in '92. Spent 20yrs on design of process control computer systems mainly DEC based and of course used PC's from the very early stages. retired in '94 and built my first home/NLE system shortly after.

Now ageing rapidly (see my thread "Can't export using XP". Hope 2nd childhood starts soon and cheers me up!!
Cheers
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Has the cleaning lady written yet !,,,it seems the whole editing world has posted there reply here,,,thanks
I wonder how long it is before NLE is a thing of the past !
For the future I see Camera`s holding large `flash memory` enough for 2 hours footage,,,this being loaded into a slot on the tower(pc the size of cd case)...and edited through speech !
or maybe captain kirk will beam us all up and editing will be a thing of the past !
I think if I was around in the days of scissors, and someone said `thumbnails` in the future mate and 0`s & 1`s, I`d say they had lost the plot....any ideas on how/what the future holds for us editors ??????
if we ever get real time (and it means real) that would be a good start !

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Funny how a seemingly innocuous thread can suddenly gather a life and momentum of its own. Never thought this would get to 9 entries let alone 94!

Charisma, seems you have achieved a life ambition. Don't forget to video this page with the burning icon magnified, for posterity!

Thordell
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71 started with 9.5mm film about 1944. With scissors....

Alan.

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simonphw
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i match my waistline...32

Chirpy
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If I breathe in - so do I!

I'm joking of course - there's 3 inches difference!

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Alan,

You wanted the stats on average age so okay here they are - well someone had to do it!

If you take the 73 (reasonably) straight answers and ignore the dodgy ones (like Bob C's average age using Excel!) then the average age is 44.5years up to Alan/Thordell's post.

Funny but the average age has gone up with each page 38.3 - 48.9 - 53.9, so I guess from this that it takes us older members a little longer to read and understand the question - or are we just too busy editing - which is exactly what I should be doing instead of being a 50 year old saddo working this out!

Enough already - someone else can do the coloured spreadsheets - Bob, how good are you in PowerPoint?

Paul

You can't edit what you haven't got.

Johnc
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60.....coming on 6.

pcarty
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45 and I'm the 100th reply. Never seen that before! Do I get a coconut?

Charisma Productions
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quote:Originally posted by Paul Rossi:
Alan,

You wanted the stats on average age so okay here they are - well someone had to do it!

If you take the 73 (reasonably) straight answers and ignore the dodgy ones (like Bob C's average age using Excel!) then the average age is 44.5years up to Alan/Thordell's post.

Funny but the average age has gone up with each page 38.3 - 48.9 - 53.9, so I guess from this that it takes us older members a little longer to read and understand the question - or are we just too busy editing - which is exactly what I should be doing instead of being a 50 year old saddo working this out!

Enough already - someone else can do the coloured spreadsheets - Bob, how good are you in PowerPoint?

Paul

Nice one Paul...I`m glad you took the time out to do the figures !...44yrs average...not bad..I guess that number will start to fall over the next few years...with NLE getting cheaper and more user friendly by the week.....The interest in `movie making` has certainly grown in recent years, through the advent of `budget films and pop video`s` alot more younger people have taken to it..I was surprised by the age being in the 40`s but then again the price of NLE and cameras etc has never be cheap and probably not within the price range of younger folk...but with todays pc`s and mac users having firewire now as standard then I think users are given more opportunity to dabble in editing, at first learning with there own holiday video.....then to this forum !
It was said in the music world years ago when Punk music came on the scene, it was crap music but it encouraged kids to pick up an instrument and make a noise...spurning the likes of U2.
As long as people are creative then editing will survive, technology will be an afterthought.

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quote:Previously posted by pcarty:
45 and I'm the 100th reply. Never seen that before! Do I get a coconut?

The very first Once upon a time thread was stopped when it reached 425 replies because it was slowing everything up. That's why it's now on its 7th. Chapter.

Eric. (28)

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im on dv now at 16, i got my first vhs-c at 13, i cant see myself stopping soon

ECS K7S5A, 256MB DDR, 40GB MAXTOR, MATROX G450 MILLENIUM DUALHEAD, ATHLON 1900+XP, WINDOWS XP PRO, PREMIERE 6.01, AVID DVXPRESS 2, AFTER EFFECTS 5 PRODUCTION BUNDLE, (SOMEONE SELL ME A GOOD DV EDIT BUNDLE!)

Charisma Productions
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I`ll watch out for the name Ben !

Merv Wilson
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70 and an avid (no, not that Avid) user of MSPro 6.0. A pair of Carving Skis and a Marin East Peak full suspension M/Bike, (not at the same time) helps to work out the next cut also knocks at least 30 years off me!

Merv Wilson

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Slipperman
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The average age is 44

There you go, I knew it, I'm just average!

On the bright side, though, it looks like there's just as much ahead of me as there is behind!

buster
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quote:Originally posted by simonphw:
i match my waistline...32

So do I 46..

cliff.mcloughlin
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43

Good Luck

Cliff

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malcolmwhiteley
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Just a teenager 58.

malcolmwhiteley
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Just a teenager 58.

Jamescartel
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Fuller Im going to kill you. Im pretty sure you aint 16 :-@ hmmm.

James F

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Soundman
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30 for the last 10 years dont know how much longer I can keep it up LOL

One Moment One Life :)

mdoragh
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26

Only had my own stuff for a year now. (Good time to get into the market though.... would have cost ~£10,000 only 3 years ago, to get what I have now!!!)

Up until now I have borrowed cameras and systems to fulfil my creative ambitions...
SVHS => Linear.
Hi8 => NLE etc...

Now my own:-
DV => DV500 NLE with DVD Writer! Nice.

Mike

[This message has been edited by mdoragh (edited 14 January 2002).]

harwil
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Amazed by discvovering all these youngsters.
I am 74, which seems, so far, to be a record.

harwil
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Amazed by discvovering all these youngsters.
I am 74, which seems, so far, to be a record.

harwil
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Amazed by discvovering all these youngsters.
I am 74, which seems, so far, to be a record.

Alf Fulford
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72 next month and been using MSPro 6.0 for 2 years now - burn my stuff onto SVCD.

Editing keeps me away from that rubbish on TV and out of the pub!!

josjac
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Don`t know `bout any1 else but 2 me the downside of this thread is finding out that i`ve been hanging on the every word of "guru`s" who turn out 2 b younger than my kid brother - Mssr`s( no "Masters") Callaghan
& Crabtree r cases in point. I refuse 2 heed the advice of...one`s so young & will never buy a copy of the excellent C.M again. So there.
Oh...yeh, i`m ummm...33

[This message has been edited by josjac (edited 16 January 2002).]

JeffC
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There's a 7 and a 5 in my age, but I'm damned if I can remember which order they're in.

Jeff

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skyfun
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Was 46 now going on 100 after using pinnacle product

Gerrard
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34 and just getting into video editing.

Ged

Paul Rossi
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Just to update the stats (remember it is only fun and based on reasonably sensible answers)

Page 1 average age = 38.3 (34 entries)
Page 2 average age = 48.9 (31 entries)
Page 1+2 ave age = 43.4 (65 entries)
Page 3 average age = 49.2 (23 entries and down from 53.9)
Page 1+2+3 ave age = 44.9 (88 entries)

So our average age has gone up from 44.5 to 44.9.

Now I'm off to get a life!

Paul (the Saddo)

You can't edit what you haven't got.

BobGilmore
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Harwil,
Sorry to disappoint you, but see my post on Jan.8th (top of page 2 on my screen - approx. no 40 in list)!
In Australia on holiday for another 3 weeks.
In past six weeks (at home in NI, of course), have been completing a major upgrade: new 450W. psu, Matrox G450 graphics, GA-7DXR MB, Athlon 1550+ cpu, 512Mb DDR memory, and finally WinXP, dual-booted wiith the existing WinME. Only trouble, documented in the Hard Drive forum, but not yet solved, is with the ATA100 module of the Gigabyte MB. Will have another go when I get home.
To save you looking up the posting, the age is 79+.
Bob.....

chog
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30

Never used scisors with video (/film) editing, but used a razor blade for editing audio on a Marantz reel2reel deck about 9 years ago... it was FANTASTIC!

Would love to try some of that down-and-dirty stuff with film, but I've pretty much always used NLE (no trouble to get used to since I didn't get into editing till I was in my 20s, but had been around computers since I was 8)

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29 (big 3-0 in April, gulp), and a girl who edits to boot!

Started at college with VHS linear suites back in '92, progressed to NLE in 1998 (oh happy day! apart from the Blue Screens of Death). Been around computers since the days of the ZX81 (try editing with that!), had an Amiga etc.

Starting to do films with young people for work, and borrowing equipment to make films in my spare time, but don't get to edit as much as I'd like as all my fellow (male!) film-makers hog the equipment!!

Anya

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Talking of age... please check out my request in the following topic (last change today and tomorrow!!)
http://www.dvdoctor.net/cgi-bin/ubb/Forum29/HTML/000332.html

Charisma Productions
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nice to hear of so many different experiences from years gone by.....thank u

Bruce
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Nearly 54. Started on 8mm - film. Then 35mm followed by 16mm at the BBC. Delski I also remember quad tape being cut with iron filings and a microscope!

Did not find any trouble going from film to BetaSP to Avid NLE. When you know how to cut the machinery is incidental.

notspikejonze
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2(and counting)

CARLOS
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Just wanted to be involved in this record breaking post.
35 and counting.

CARLOS
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Just wanted to be invilved in this record breaking post.

35 and counting

CARLOS

CARLOS
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Just wanted to be involved in this record breaking post.

35 and counting

CARLOS

CARLOS
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Just wanted to be involved in this record breaking post.

35 and counting

CARLOS

Motionwerk
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37

dom2002
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37

below average age...must be the only board where that is so other than the Harley Davison Club

Charisma Productions
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Oh How Times Have Changed !

Richard Payne
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35

Half way between 20 and 50

FerrymanR
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58

That should help to bring the average age up.
And I started working on Mainframe computers in 1962 (punched cards/punched tape). First camera in 1950 (Ensign). First 16mm cine camera in 1964. First camcorder (Sony CCD-V8 I think it was called) in 1987.

Richard

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