Uploaded July 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
A great story that just came together at the last minute, this is an interview with a husband and wife who were forced at gunpoint to help rob a local bank. The interview video was great, though I had to use some stock video as best I could to disguise the fact that the whole thing was just a little bit low on B-roll. Really, though, the smart bet was to stay on the interview footage, which was emotional enough that it would’ve been a mistake to cover up too much of it.
This story aired on April 23rd, 2003 at 10pm; the reporter was Melissa Yeager and the photog was Brett Rains.
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.
A great story that just came together at the last minute, this is an interview with a husband and wife who were forced at gunpoint to help rob a local bank. The interview video was great, though I had to use some stock video as best I could to disguise the fact that the whole thing was just a little bit low on B-roll. Really, though, the smart bet was to stay on the interview footage, which was emotional enough that it would’ve been a mistake to cover up too much of it.
This story aired on April 23rd, 2003 at 10pm; the reporter was Melissa Yeager and the photog was Brett Rains.
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.
