Tue 26 Aug 2008
I’ve been trying to dust off this blog lately, but my day job keeps getting in the way. For those of you who don’t know, or haven’t visited the root of this domain, I’m a television editor and for the last 4 months of my life I’ve been laboring away as the Lead Editor on a new show for MTV called “Busted”.
It has been very grueling, but we’re making great headway and just started airing weekdays at 6pm ET/PT then replaying at midnight. You can see full episodes at this link.
On the SageTV front, I have been working a little on Meekell. I’ve added a bunch of animations and fixed some bugs. I’m planning on making a release sometime before the end of the year with reworked music and photos sections that should take advantage of the new 6.4 features.
With tech, I have my eye on Canon’s new HD camcorder the HF11. With SageTV’s support for AVCHD on the extender it should be an easy sell. With that purchase I also plan to pick up a Drobo to keep the video safe, then hopefully a new Mac Pro to really get into selling my photography as stock.
There is a lot of stuff on the horizon, so don’t forget about me! I’m still here.
September 14th, 2008 at 9:24 am |
hey i was on Busted and i was wondering how do yall pick which footage to use ? In our episode the generator almost fell off of our boat onto the sheriffs boat but that part wasn’t on the show . thanks
September 15th, 2008 at 3:42 pm |
At some point I might do a post that talks about how we approach the show - but basically it goes like this:
Each story usually happens over the course of 30 minutes to a couple of hours, then we go back an interview you and the officer which results in a total of between 2 and 10 hours of footage that is cut down to just 6 to 8 MINUTES when it airs.
We have to cut out a lot of stuff in order to keep things interesting and focus on what we decide is the core storyline. Unfortunately we end up with a lot of stuff that never is able to make it to air because we simply don’t have enough time to include it.
We have been including some of those things in the credits and on the MTV site as outtakes, but at the end of the day some things end up on the cutting room floor.
I encourage you to take a look at the producer blogs here:
http://remotecontrol.mtv.com/category/shows/busted/
for more inside info on how we make the show.
Thanks for watching!