ok... So now I've been infected by you videoblogging-types! :O hahahaha Besides when I first started out editing MSM video, I've never given a damn about being credited for something I did. Most of what I do is "segment" editing. I make short pieces that go into larger shows. Sometimes, I'm the show editor. Sometimes, I'm the "offline" editor (which doesn't make sense as a term anymore, because nobody's loading in Low-Res anymore. It's all broadcast quality...) and someone else does the finishing.
So I sat with a producer and cut this video about kids that went to Uganda. We cut 20 hours of footage down to 5 minutes, our allotted time in the hour-long show. It aired this morning @ 7am, so I just checked it out on the DVR a couple of minutes ago. NOW... Thanks to youse guys (did he say... youtes?), I'm all NOTICING that I wasn't credited anywhere... ANYWHERE! :D waaaaaaaaaah If you watch Dateline, when the segments start, they throw up the producer's name and the editor's name before they get into the story. This is because there are different producers and different editors on every single segment, so it doesn't make sense to THROW ALL THEIR NAMES IN AT THE END!!! :/ They mentioned the producer I worked with..... Except they didn't mention WHAT SEGMENT SHE PRODUCED!!! :/ Idiots. They floated a stack of names up the screen under the heading "Field Producers", not giving any one of them credit for the individual segment they were responsible for. Maybe their plan was for people to remember which segment went when and match up the names to the.... NOPE! The field producers are credited in ALPHABETICAL ORDER!!! :/ Then, the largest insult is that they have three people listed under "Editors", none of whom is *ME*! :D Being that they don't have the same number of editors listed as they have "Field Producers", I doubt that those are individual segment editors. They're most likely the staff editors for the program, and they were responsible for putting the entire show together. They may have done some segments too, depending on how that show works, but WHO THE HELL KNOWS? Because they didn't say which editor did WHAT! :/ What's so funny about this is that none of it matters! :D I got paid, REGARDLESS, and before all this "Creative Commons" this and "This aggregator jacked my feed" that, I couldn't possibly have cared any less if someone put my name on one of the myriad videos I've put on the air. The people that I told about it saw it or recorded it or whatever, and I'm not psychic... to be able to tell people that a segment about kids going to Uganda is coming on in the first half hour of a show airing on July 30th @ 7am THAT.I.DIDN'T.DO.MYSELF! :D So, for all intents and purposes, I shouldn't care at all that I wasn't mentioned... AT ALL! However... It's a ripoff. It's not right! :D Actually, the way they stacked everyone up at the end without giving individual credit for the segments, it wouldn't have mattered if they had put my name in the credit roll. I would just have had something DIFFERENT to bitch about! :D Make sure you feel GLAD and PRIVILEGED when someone acknowledges what you do and credits you and/or links back to you! :D -- billcammack
