BACKLOG 1: Patience isn't all it's cracked up to be

while i'm here i'll have a go at backlogging. i'm not sure what the best way of doing this would be so i'll just write about lessons that i have learnt so far and how i learnt them.

the editing room can get very busy at times and the occurence (sp?) of more than one person wanting to use the same equipment at the same time is quite common. i learnt today (not literally today but i am backlogging now in the style that i would have adopted had i created this post on the day that it happened) that if you get to that piece of equipment first and another group asks to borrow it for "literally just 15 minutes"...don't believe them. i had deliberately sat at the front of a lecture to be able to leave the room first at the end in order to get into the edit suite. as it transpired, on that particular occasion i needn't have bothered because when i arrived to the edit suite there was no one else there and it remained that way with me on my own for 10 minutes. by that time i had already logged in and got the VT ready to start logging and capturing some footage when another person arrived. he saw that i was using the VT despite needing it himself and so asked if he could use the machine for "literally 15 minutes" because his group only needed to log and capture 2 more takes. i gave him the benefit of the doubt and so his group came in and proceeded to log and capture. an hour had passed and they still hadn't finished. i asked them how long they were going to be a few times and each time they reassured me that they wouldn't be long and so my softer side kept on prevailing. eventually they had managed to finish capturing their desired footage when the big twist came. they had been capturing using a slow method which meant that they had to batch capture everything. the process lasted for over half and hour meaning that when i did finally get to start editing, nearly 2 hours had passed from the moment i became the first person to leave my previous lecture..

"this is the quick way to log and capture" was a particular statement that i overheard which i found particularly irritating.