Uploaded July 2015 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
For Oscar night ’04, a story was scheduled about a small town in northwest Arkansas which has seen increasing use as a movie location in recent years. There was footage for this, but a lot of it was locked-off interview footage, or locked-off footage of various parts of that community. I pulled an animated filmstrip element off of an old ABC stock footage reel (circa 2000), which was also the source of the black & white film leader element. The opening animation and closing tag were both done in Paint Shop Pro, using as many “movie logo fonts” as I could find. February 2004.
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 of 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.
For Oscar night ’04, a story was scheduled about a small town in northwest Arkansas which has seen increasing use as a movie location in recent years. There was footage for this, but a lot of it was locked-off interview footage, or locked-off footage of various parts of that community. I pulled an animated filmstrip element off of an old ABC stock footage reel (circa 2000), which was also the source of the black & white film leader element. The opening animation and closing tag were both done in Paint Shop Pro, using as many “movie logo fonts” as I could find. February 2004.
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 of 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.
