Uploaded July 2015 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
On the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor bombing, local survivor Herman E. Stout vividly recalls the events he witnessed while serving there.
I don’t do them too often, but when I do edit a news package, I tend to enjoy it. In this case, the idea to edit the whole piece on the Avid came out of a discussion with the videographer who shot the piece; as it was already going to be a “nats pack” (a package consisting entirely of “nats,” or “natural sound,” without any reporter voice tracks), why not just do it up a bit? By the time we were done with the package, we were both pretty happy with it.
This package aired on December 7th, 2006 on 40/29 News at Ten. The photojournalist was Everett Aldridge.
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.
On the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor bombing, local survivor Herman E. Stout vividly recalls the events he witnessed while serving there.
I don’t do them too often, but when I do edit a news package, I tend to enjoy it. In this case, the idea to edit the whole piece on the Avid came out of a discussion with the videographer who shot the piece; as it was already going to be a “nats pack” (a package consisting entirely of “nats,” or “natural sound,” without any reporter voice tracks), why not just do it up a bit? By the time we were done with the package, we were both pretty happy with it.
This package aired on December 7th, 2006 on 40/29 News at Ten. The photojournalist was Everett Aldridge.
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.
