I was out of the loop on that one.  I read "Wrigley" and imagined it was a  contest for creating a Wrigley's Spearmint Gum TV commercial.  That was until I went to the server and started watching videos.  In 2003 people were using Premiere 6.5.  Some even used the Matrox RT.X 100.  Crash city, at least in my experience.

Steven,

I don't have time to engage here, but I lurk.  You were a BIG infulence back then.  I remember when you first got the Sony FX1, so I immediatly went out and got one also.  (I still use and love it)  (Do you remember when you went to Greece, I invented a time machine here, changed history, and you were no longer President of the U.S. in THIS universe?)

I learned much from you, and Curt's instructional videos.  I downloaded all of Curt's videos, I still have them on a hard drive, which is sitting in a drawer.

I miss Craig's wit.

Dag was hilarious (How many times did the King or Jerry admonish his posts?)

I must admit, even Mobutu's posts were intertaining.

Times change and I miss the olden days.  Good to see you back.

I must admit, even Mobutu's posts were [e]ntertaining.

 

Okay, you know, a few months back I was talking about something and someone said something to me that I didn't understand and it sounded like they said "mobutu." I had a sudden, halting deja vu moment. Thinking about it later that day, I wondered "mobutu....mobutu....why would I have just made that word up?" Later still, I somewhat remembered "I think that was some troll I used to mess with in a forum somewhere..."

So now at least I know I didn't just make it all up in my head. Hard to believe how long ago THAT was. Wonder what happened to him? If we say his name 3 times does he show up?

Steven L. Gotz wrote:

 

I am such a packrat.

 

I found the entire collection of the Spring 2004 videos created for the Wrigley Video Productions web site's contest tucked away in a ZIP file on an old 160G drive in a box in the closet. I was looking for something else. But what a way to waste a couple of hours!

 

Should I put them up where everyone can get them if they want them? Does anyone really care? I think I have enough drive space and download limits to handle it. Let me know. Zipped up it is about 230MB.  A size that used to be enormous, but is now pretty easy to deal with. We had 60 seconds as I recall but I don't remember the rest of the rules.

 

It makes me wonder if I have the collection from the Adobe Forums Reel Festival and Competition from 2003. You old folks out there want to have some fun, look at the names on this thread:

 

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/388868

 

Takes you back, doesn't it?

 

OK, what the heck. Might as well. There can be found here:  http://videos.stevengotz.com/Wrigley_Video/

 

Message was edited by: Steven L. Gotz

I remember his tutorials too from back then, they were awesome and great. I had the Pinnacle DV 500 and Premiere 5.1 and 6.0 - boy I made a lot of VHS copies back then

/Ulf

Might be interested. Could a Pinnacle DV500 get into the deal too?

Ulf