7 Replies Latest reply: Nov 20, 2009 11:31 AM by johnbmx4christ RSS

    Get to know the Premiere Pro Forum "Regulars"

    Webshark2000 Community Member

      I've been coming to the forum for a while now, mostly to get help from the experts, and to help out others when I can.  I really appreciate some of the frequent contributors who have helped me out when I've come across problems I couldn't find a solution to on my own.

       

      If anyone is interested, I was hoping to start this thread to get to know some of the frequent members of the forum (what they do for a living, the company they work for or own if they want to mention it, where they're from, etc).

       

       

      I guess I'll start.  I work for a production company in Indiana.  We mostly do corporate training, marketing, and sales videos but we also do some brochures, photography, and multimedia projects.

       

       

      I've been editing on Premiere for about three years, starting with 2.0 and I have experience with Encore, After Effects, Flash, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver.  I also edit on Final Cut Pro at home and have experience with Avid.

       

       

      Here's our company's website that I created using Flash, if anyone's interested in taking a look (not trying to advertise).  www.klaesimage.com

       

      Anyway, hopefully some of the other regulars (Harm, Jim, Wine Snob and others) will chime in.

       

       

       

        • 1. Re: Get to know the Premiere Pro Forum "Regulars"
          Bill Hunt CommunityMVP

          OK, I'll go next. After a stint in civil engineering, I went back to school and got a degree in cinematography. To fund this education, I pressed my hobby, still photography into use. When I walked out of school, I had dozens of still clients. I picked up some cine clients and did some fun projects, but my wife needed to go to grad school, and my still clients were standing in line with checkbooks.

           

          Over the decades, I did ad work for HP, IBM, Ampex, Inmos, AT&T and many others. I did far less cine work, than I had ever anticipated, and rather lost touch with it.

           

          Back when I started in film, video was live feed to a switcher, or to a 2" tape for recorded to a switcher. ENG had not been coined yet. Umatic did not exist. Beta and BetaMax were years in the future, as was VHS. I had done a couple of blocks on video, but it was 100% studio and I hated the look, plus when I held those 2" tapes up to the light, I couldn't see a danged thing!

           

          Fast forward some years, and I decided to pick up a video camera and got a copy of Pinnacle Studio 7, IIRC. I began working with it, and moved up to Studio 9.4.3, upgrading with about every version. At this point, I moved to Avid Liquid (actually, I think it was the precursor to Liquid). An assistant got PrPro 1.0 and showed it to me. I played with his copy, and jumped to Adobe. I had used their products from when they first hit the PC - my platform and loved most, and owned most. I'd already spent much of my time doing Photoshop work (previously having done digital work on Scitex), so knew digital. Just not digital video. Illustrator, Painter, several 3D paint apps., PageMaker and similar were old hat to me. Pinnacle Studio had been fine for what I was doing, but with PrPro I began to see the real power. Avid was so clunky for me, that I never warmed to it, so probably missed a lot.

           

          I began doing small non-personal projects, and the word spread. Soon, I was hardly doing non-personal still work anymore. The pendulum had swung back to motion - just now with digital video. The more I did, the more I wanted to know. With Production Studio CS2, I began to put things together, and realized how little I really knew.

           

          I'd already spent time on the Adobe fora, going back to when they were only NTTP, before the Internet. I dropped into the Premiere forum with a few questions, and got answers instantly. In my downtime, I began reading the entire forum. Same thing with Encore. At one time (two generations ago in the Adobe fora) I had no "red flags" in either Premiere, or Encore. I had read everything (except for the old Mac-Error Messages Encore sub-forum). Soon, I realized that I could actually add something back and began doing so. Even when I did not have a question, or a problem, I kept reading these fora. It helped kill time while a Render, or an Export was on-going. I still do that on the laptop, while the workstation churns away, or when I have nothing else on my plate.

           

          Now, I am semi-retired and just do the projects that I want. Some are pro-bono, and I have not shopped my portfolio, or my demo-reel in some years. I'd rather try to help someone here, than meet with a creative director, who could easily be my grandchild, or maybe great grandchild.

           

          When I'm not doing the small project, or hanging here, I spend the rest of my time traveling, or sitting on various charity boards. Life is good!

           

          Hunt

          • 2. Re: Get to know the Premiere Pro Forum "Regulars"
            Eric Addison MeganK

            Not sure if I classify as a "regular", but I hang out and try to help out in the PPro forum when I can...

             

            I've been working in video/film production since college, where I got a B.S. in Film/TV production. I worked at a production/rental house for seven years before going out on my own and starting my own video production company here in San Diego. We do mostly corporate work, along with commericals, training, and web based work.

             

            I've been using Premiere since version 5, and I've also learned FCP, some Avid, and various other NLE's along the way - we had Media 100 and Lightworks in college. But I've always found Premiere, and now Premiere Pro, to be the NLE I liked most. I also run the new San Diego Premiere Pro User Group.

            • 3. Re: Get to know the Premiere Pro Forum "Regulars"
              Harm Millaard CommunityMVP

              Well guys, here is a completely different story.

               

              I started at the Royal Dutch Naval Academy as a cadet, then went on to study economics and went into the banking business, commercial loans, asset management and stock brokerage. Then moved on into the field of HR Consulting, first with Hay Management Consultants, then with my own firm, specialized in organizational structures, compensation & benefits, performance management and MD. I have worked with many multinationals and large companies, like Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon, Unilever, Philips, Akzo-Nobel, MSD, Canon, McKinsey, Fuji, Honeywell, BASF, Schiphol Amsterdam Airport, Mercedes Benz, and the like on these issues. In all, nothing to do with video editing, so what the f**k am I doing here?

               

              Purely as a hobby I started with photography during my grammar school days in Switzerland, then moved on to 8 mm film, then in the early '80's started with video (VHS-C) and progressed from there, first using analog editing equipment and later digital. I started out with Ulead Media Studio and switched to Premiere with version 5.1. I have used each and every version after that, so now I'm on CS4.2 MC.

               

              Almost all the video work I do is hobby, with the exception of a report of an Island Hopping trip in the Caribbean on board the sailing vessel De Eendracht and a promotional video for the largest crude oil terminal in the world (still working on the latter).

               

              Now many of you may see me as somewhat of a hardware guy with some knowledge of computers, and that perception is not altogether wrong. During my studies I got acquainted with programming, first in Basic on a MITS Altair, then APL on an IBM 5110 and a DEC 2060, then on to Fortran, Pascal, LISP, C, etc. Being statistically inclined (some friends have always wondered why I studied economics and not econometrics or math) I was one of the founding fathers of the Hay Benefits Value Comparison, Hay Dynamic Pay Survey and Hay Xpert.

               

              Nowadays I occasionally build relatively high-end systems for people and help them solve problems they may encounter. Luckily for me my son is a BoE, specialized in IT and an expert network and security consultant, doing complex projects at large telecom companies and high-tech organizations, so I always have backup in case I am at my wits end.

               

              That in a nutshell is me.

              • 4. Re: Get to know the Premiere Pro Forum "Regulars"
                Curt Wrigley Community Member

                I'm not as regular as I used to be, but Im told that comes with old age.

                 

                I have a beautiful wife, two boys (both married and out of the house) a dog and a granddaughter.

                 

                I started out in IT working for a semiconductor company and ended up being responsible for their global network, helpdesk, desktops, pbx and customer communication.  Serving all time zones around the globe turned my hair gray so I got an opportunity to leave that job roughly ten years ago.

                 

                Since then Ive been running my own small video studio and doing technical writing.

                 

                I started with Ulead Media Studio / analog video and soon upgraded to DV video gear and Premiere 6.0.   At the time I was amazed that there were almost no video tutorials on the web explaining how Premiere works.  The product was generally not leveraged to support itself.   So, I vowed when I got some time, I would fill that void.  In 2002 I published my first online video tutorial in response to a question asked here in the adobe forum.  Soon I had a dozen or so video tutorials but they were just links from this forum.   So I taught myself html and made a website to organize my tutorials.   This continued till 2007 or so when I ran out of free time to make these free tutorials.  Maybe one day I will get back to it.

                 

                I have contributed to writing the PPro ACE certification exams for adobe, the last few releases.   I am the author of the Adobe PPRO CS3 and CS4 Classroom in a Book.  I am a moderator here, an Adobe Community Help moderator, Adobe Community Expert, and have my ACE for PPRO.

                 

                I love jazz, watching a good movie, mentoring teenagers at our local church, and used to fly ultralight aircraft before I got too fat and lost my nerve.

                • 5. Re: Get to know the Premiere Pro Forum "Regulars"
                  Bill Hunt CommunityMVP
                  I'm not as regular as I used to be, but Im told that comes with old age.

                   

                  Curt,

                   

                  Get ready, as that pendulum might swing back. It did for me, but I've got you by 20 years, so you still have time. [Now, there could be other meanings to that, and I hope you're not talking about some of them... !]

                   

                   

                   

                  Hunt

                  • 6. Re: Get to know the Premiere Pro Forum "Regulars"
                    Bill Hunt CommunityMVP
                    So I taught myself html and made a website to organize my tutorials.

                     

                    FWIW, I link to those tutorials, even the Pr 6.0 ones about once per week. Please do not take that site down.

                     

                    Hunt

                    • 7. Re: Get to know the Premiere Pro Forum "Regulars"
                      johnbmx4christ Community Member

                      he would never take that down..i'd drive up there and smack him hard..plus that forum there

                      was made as an offshoot to this one way back in the day and alot of the adobe forum regulars from back then still frequ

                      ent it.

                       

                       

                      i started coming to these forum when i first recieved premiere 6.0. i too noticed there wasnt much help back then and started coming here just to see if i could help people out. when people first started using ppro i noticed i couldnt keep up and couldnt help anymore but still come here to hang out with you smart people.