Being injured is fun

As part of the ongoing saga that is the is it/isn't fractured ankle debate between medical people, the resulting influence on me us that I am required to do modified duties. Thankfully I expressed an interest to the right people in video editing. This has lead to me to enter the inner sanctum of Shaw TV. I'm allowed beyond the black curtain and pass the red on-air light.

And what did I find behind the forbidden curtain? Actually a very cool studio. It's called a working studio which means items are filmed in studio with reporters and other busy people working in the background. Four big studio cameras are prominent in the middle of the room underneath two vast hanging lighting rigs.

My first and third days have been spent with Brad updating the Shaw web site. When the stories have been edited for TV, they are also compressed for the web and stored on a central drive. We then add the video to the sections of the Shaw site and link to other sites as appropriate.

One afternoon was spent sitting in with the editors. This, I loved. As a part time, amateur, basement editor myself it was great to see REAL professionals at work. I was surprised to learn that they only recently switched over to using Final Cut Pro on Macs, within the last year. Seeing as my Mac Pro is newer than the ones they were using I was not surprised that mine was more loaded then theirs.

Since then I have been working full time on the web site. Brad has been busy with the in studio stuff which left me available to work on it.

UPDATE: I have been given a date to have an MRI, March 19th. It will be close to eight weeks since the injury at that time.

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