Teaching people how to edit video

1. ThomasTyndan
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   Teaching people how to edit video
   
   or as I like to call it, "Beating yourself in the face with a iron skillet while walking barefoot over sharp glass" }:-@
   
   I bought my family as a whole a camera and editing software for my father, as the entire family is going to Greece and Egypt this spring. I figured it would be a fitting gift to capture the moments and also it being personal as to my hobbies and skills. What I didn;t think about however was the plethura of editing knowledge that I would have to pour out to my family so they would know what they were doing.
   
   My dad is easy enough, he learns quickly and everything, but half the time I want to just push the him aside and say "Just let me do it!" The realization I have come to is that you should never buy gifts that reflect any of your personal skill or talents, because it will drive you up the wall!
   
   Anyway I work in the computer industry and the are many water cooler moments where people say something like "yeah I got an IT call once, someone had stuffed a saltine cracker into the disk drive" X-D
   
   I think that many people in the video industry (or hobby) have had like experiences, anyone wish to share any?
   
   I'll start: the camera I bought my family is a Canon ZR600, I was going for the simplest camera I could find. Do you know what my mother said when she looked at it?
   
   "Wow there are so many buttons..."
   
   RIGHT!!! ALL THREE OF THEM!!! *sigh*
   
   I'm sure other people have more entertaining things than this, so please share... I need a good laugh.

   Posted 5 years ago #

2. P63
   Member

   
   I'll bite.
   
   I had a very basic camcorder back in the day, but it was like a tricorder to the guy who picked up the camera at a party, took a video of everyones' nose, as he walked backwards, and then you could hear him say "I can't get far enough back!"
   
   He should have experimented with the slider marked "t w".

   Posted 5 years ago #

3. Almond
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    I tried to show my mother how to use Word one time, and I almost killed her!

   Posted 4 years ago #

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