Uploaded July 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
I don’t normally put daily topicals up for all to see – they’re so very often routine, and there’s always the problem of having the right footage to go with a story that’s Happening Right Now (I’m not a big fan of Anchor At A Desk promos.) But this is a case where everything came together the way it did almost by accident. There was actually copy written for this promo, but it never got voiced for one reason or another – and then the interview sound turned out to be strong enough to support the whole thing.
A NOTE ABOUT VIDEO QUALITY
I began archiving my work-related video years before YouTube existed. It was an age of darkness, an age of limited web storage, an age of... {shudder} ...dial-up connections.
More to the point, my work archive at my site was all dependent on... {shudder some more} ...Adobe Flash. These videos were converted, usually from either the master MII or Beta tapes or from VHS dubs, with a program called Sorenson Squeeze. Sorenson is great for what it does, but with scenes featuring a lot of motion, there's often a lot of pixellation and motion artifacting that's considered unacceptable these days. The Sorenson files were also generated at a very small resolution, and thus the video extracted from them could only be the same resolution. (I no longer work at any of the TV stations for whom I produced these spots, and as such no longer have access to the master tapes.)
I hope you enjoy this little walk down local TV memory lane.
I don’t normally put daily topicals up for all to see – they’re so very often routine, and there’s always the problem of having the right footage to go with a story that’s Happening Right Now (I’m not a big fan of Anchor At A Desk promos.) But this is a case where everything came together the way it did almost by accident. There was actually copy written for this promo, but it never got voiced for one reason or another – and then the interview sound turned out to be strong enough to support the whole thing.
A NOTE ABOUT VIDEO QUALITY
I began archiving my work-related video years before YouTube existed. It was an age of darkness, an age of limited web storage, an age of... {shudder} ...dial-up connections.
More to the point, my work archive at my site was all dependent on... {shudder some more} ...Adobe Flash. These videos were converted, usually from either the master MII or Beta tapes or from VHS dubs, with a program called Sorenson Squeeze. Sorenson is great for what it does, but with scenes featuring a lot of motion, there's often a lot of pixellation and motion artifacting that's considered unacceptable these days. The Sorenson files were also generated at a very small resolution, and thus the video extracted from them could only be the same resolution. (I no longer work at any of the TV stations for whom I produced these spots, and as such no longer have access to the master tapes.)
I hope you enjoy this little walk down local TV memory lane.
