That’s my obtuse point.

'I’m beginning to wonder' - what took you so long!

I’ve been keeping it to myself for a number of years.

... how anyone ever told a story before we had...

If that’s your picture, you know very well how we did it. 😜

... how anyone ever told a story before we had...

HEVC

hoverscrub

4K

6 CPUs per socket

2 to the n ways to encode and deliver our masterpieces.

I still remember my first video editing in a pentium at 133mhz

well, as you suggested john, i've popped out of hiding (behind resolve screens), only to become overwhelmed by what's going on in general.

i'm still taken by this video:

fortunately for my work (most of which ends up on one form or another of the net), hd is still overkill:-)

i am so bored with drone shots, overt grading, frenetic cutting, vector graphcs, and crass colour correction that no amount of it will make up for the pathetic excuse that passes for scripting nowadays.

i was brought up on the mantra that it was all about the 'story', whether selling, explaining, entertaining, or simply getting a message across, what was important was the content, not the packaging. unfortunately youtube now reflects society by the popularity of the unpacking videos - enough said ;-)

ah for the bad old days of a couple of low-band vtrs clunking away under the control of a rm450

ducking back behind monitors.

i was brought up on the mantra that it was all about the 'story', whether selling, explaining, entertaining, or simply getting a message across, what was important was the content, ....

No change here. Polishing a turd is still just that. No end of tricky FXing will fix that.

However, gloriously captured footage and seeing how that footage has been developed into a work of redemption or life enrichment once seen, for me, is stunning. Where Drone work is used sensitively and appropriately it is memorable. To see colour grading gently rolling out the narrative can be emotionally gratifying.

But, Leslie, explaining it this way, isn’t your purpose in “popping” out/up here, is it?

It seems like all the focus is on technology and not the story or that which is most important. So many gear reviews and you have to get this and get that. So yeah, food got cooked before there were microwaves and in many cases, it tasted better.

@Grazie

"But, Leslie, explaining it this way, isn’t your purpose in “popping” out/up here, is it?"

I spoke with Leslie privately because I miss him and his world view.

I'm with Grazie. Adding more tools to your toolbox won't make you a worse carpenter. If you were worth your salt to begin with, you'll find ways to utilize those tools in ways that expand your creativity farther than it ever could have gone before. It's the lazy ones who have no creative vision who try to use those things to "polish the turd".

Grazie and I talked about this is the past. Just take a look BBC's Planet Earth 2. New technology (smaller cameras, gimbal stabilizers, drones, remote infra red trigger, long batteries...) was essential for achieving the intimate feel of the various nature scenes (There was a blog article around the time the series was released. I will see if I can find it.) Previously, nature films all looked the same - long telephoto shots with occasional helicopter camera footage for big budget productions.