Uploaded July 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
To kick off May sweeps 2006, this package – concerning sheriff’s deputies and local police agencies training in preparation for a major warrant sweep – same together very quickly, so much so that the promo only ran for one day. There was an abundance of extremely cool footage and raw sound here. It’s also so fast-cutting that the Flash video conversion I did in 2006 eats it for lunch, so this is a case where the promo looked a lot better than it did here.
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.
To kick off May sweeps 2006, this package – concerning sheriff’s deputies and local police agencies training in preparation for a major warrant sweep – same together very quickly, so much so that the promo only ran for one day. There was an abundance of extremely cool footage and raw sound here. It’s also so fast-cutting that the Flash video conversion I did in 2006 eats it for lunch, so this is a case where the promo looked a lot better than it did here.
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.
