OK group, my turn. This goes back to 1986. I had just purchased my first camcorder (anyone remember the consumer versions of the Sony BetaCam?). I was asked to shoot video of a friend's wedding. Lucky for me, this was freebie job. Taking video of the ceremony went well, but in all the excitement of the post ceremony activities at the church, I, too, lost count of the evil "on-off" record button. When the festivities were over, I thought I turned my camera off and put it nicely away in it's hard case. When I opened it up (1/2 hour later) at the reception, I noticed it still on. Other than a partially drained battery, I saw no real dilemma. When I played back the tape for editing, I noticed that I had footage of me putting my camera in the case, closing the case, and 1/2 hour of completely black video. (And I didn't even charge my friends for that 'superior' footage). Tom
Rieni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok Sune dropped his camcorder in the ocean and he admitted that in the wide open. I think now it's time for everyone else to confess and be honest and open about the dumbest thing you ever did. Of course it has to be video/editing related. Here's my dumbest thing: 3 days after I had purchased my first camcorder (Sony V600, the one with the awesome colors) I hired a model to make my first porn flick. As you all know, the stop/start recording switch on most camcorders works as a toggle. Somehow I lost the feel with the toggle, and each time I was supposed to stop the camcorder, I made it start recording, and then when I was finished giving the model instructions for the next shot, I accidentally made it stop recording. You can all guess what the end result looked like. It was 100% "behind the scene" footage. Luckily the model was an amateur and quite cheap. In the next few years this happened again a few times, the problem with the toggle switch. For me, a camcorder with separate "start recording" and "stop" buttons would be better. Now I always double check if the camcorder is recording when recording something really unique and important. Rieni --------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
