Uploaded July 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
For a low-power, unburdened-by-anything-resembling-a-budget small town teevee station, Fort Smith's own Fox affiliate occasionally got around. This was the open for a series of live reports from the 1995 Dallas Cowboys training camp; it seems a bit overlong now, and I'm trying to recall if some of that seemingly empty build-up was meant to have VO over it (to be recorded later in the field). This was edited on 3/4" tape with effects/titles on an Amiga 4000 with Video Toaster 4000. Seems like everyone was really impressed with it at the time.
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 a low-power, unburdened-by-anything-resembling-a-budget small town teevee station, Fort Smith's own Fox affiliate occasionally got around. This was the open for a series of live reports from the 1995 Dallas Cowboys training camp; it seems a bit overlong now, and I'm trying to recall if some of that seemingly empty build-up was meant to have VO over it (to be recorded later in the field). This was edited on 3/4" tape with effects/titles on an Amiga 4000 with Video Toaster 4000. Seems like everyone was really impressed with it at the time.
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.
