2 Seconds or Why Producers Hate YouTube

[voodoo]

Of course, YouTube users slice, dice, cut, and crop to their advantage also, but the difference between "what happened" and "what was shown" still manages to come out on occasion.  See Chris, the AR-15 wielding "racist" on MSNBC.

Two missing seconds of video, even amateurishly cut, can change everything.  Find the two missing seconds in this video:

http://www.necn.com/Boston/New-England/2009/08/13/Members-of-Free-State-Project/1250199645.html

At first I thought it was a video glitch because it was such an obvious hack job.  But then I read the accompanying story:

So why did he do it? Kostric, not surprised by the strong reaction, was pressed on that question on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews.

"Clearly I'm not advocating violence," Kostric said. "Clearly no violence took place today."

"Well, then what are you advocating," asked Matthews.

"I'm advocating an informed society, an armed society," he responded.

That may have been his intent, but instead he seems to have sparked uproar about the responsibilities and the manners that come with gun rights.

Wouldn't "polite society" pretty much cover the admonitions of responsibilities and manners?

Ridley came up with some good advice the other day, advice he should take himself.  If you have something worth seeing, your skills as a producer probably aren't going to enhance it.  Load and code the raw video and work on your producer merit badge while it's compressing.

The narrative may not come out exactly as you want it, but it'll still be a heck of a lot better than the narrative some other guy added while you were futsing around with 1980s-style transitions and corrupting the audio tracks.

[miamiballoonguy]

The media reaction is what happens when the population has been brainwashed to believe that the state is their friend, not their enemy...

[Sam Gunn (since nobody got Admiral Naismith)]

Yeah I noticed that too.