[ubuntu-studio-users] Trials by fire more likely

[Gord L Williams]

From: Pete Wright
Yes, Gord, you and I are in agreement on most of this.

	Good.

I would, however, remind you that for some of us the "studio" is a "bigger
room" than the sound-only places where I was a client in the days when I
ate my lunch at the South Street "dive" in Nashville (is it still there?)
30 years ago. I was then a film maker doing interactive video for science
museums among other things. Today I write and do art photography, mostly
for recreation.

	I have recorded in the 'bigger rooms'  on a stool with a board
across the arm rests or a music stand in front of me,  waiting for the engineer
to decide what track I was on,  and watching like a hawk for the end of the tape
(tape or adat),  patching together monitor sound,  compressors and eq from a
fair sized rack.  Of course it took a while to find where that setting went to
on each of them.

	We didn't do sound for video,  thats true.  But we did audio tours,
jingles,  spoken word and music recording.  Sometimes we almost used all
32 channels on the Soundcraft board.

	Its a different space entirely and unfortunately for voiceover people
it means a completely different regimen than punching your own buttons and refraining
from adding all the juicy effects you have in front of you.

	In the media the settings are something engineering does and then rips the
knobs off or crazy glues them.  Unless you have spent a little time in a recording studio
you probably don't get most of the stuff.

	Then there is bringing the project in on time.  A different nut when you
have an engineer than when you self produce.

	When you start out with the software equivalents of what you 'may' have
learned a little about,  its nicer to focus as we have agreed.

	I too do some photography,  though I try to stay away from video as for some
reason,  I would rather not.   Stitching together a good explainer video can be fun,  but
as with you its more of a hobby or side line.


At some point the training wheels have to come off, and at that point, as
with bicycles, the user finds they haven't "trained" at all; often exactly
the opposite.

	I told my class this when I taught.  That they will forget it all on the first day
and they will probably learn everything by fire.  Somewhere down the road what I offered them
may come in handy,  but there will be a test of their individual will first.

	I guess there is no way around that,  loosing the rough edges is a matter of more than
one thing.  Software selection and utilization is just one.