"Your favorite photo editing software has bunny rabbits as a template."

No, you're really an amateur when you think it matters. The real professionals use the best tool for the job regardless of the largomorphs.

Bob.

No, I don't use that kind of stuff

You're supposed to add on, like "You know you're a redneck when ......"

Here's another one:

You know you're an amateur when your best HD camera is made by Kodek. Oops, spelled it wrong, it's Kodeck.

Even when handed a straight line on a silver platter, I'm not going to touch this thread. It would be like shooting fish in a barrel

You know you're an amateur when a spare OEM rechargeable battery for your camcorder costs 9.99USD, and free shipping at Amazon.

Not even shooting fish, more like grenade fishing in a barrel.

MT

"more like grenade fishing in a barrel" extremely messily......... it's like trying to educate an iPhone user to multi-tasking.....yes.... you can talk and browse.... not with iPhone but as a person. ;-)

Even when handed a straight line on a silver platter, I'm not going to touch this thread. It would be like shooting fish in a barrel

I'm not going to respond to this.

Bud Interesting to note that the word amateur originally meant “lover of “or "passionate about" similar to Connoisseur so some folks although not being so called professional have done amazing work in many different fields

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/amateurHere is the definition from dictionary.com.[/link]

Some of the best quality work I've seen is done by amateurs. In video, it often seems that the pros are doing weddings, safety videos, product promotions and the like. Amateurs are doing all sorts of interesting things.

Here's a question: If you do boring ass projects professionally, but do art stuff on your own time, do those boring jobs make you a professional?

the only thing that separates an amateur from a professional is that the latter gets paid.

now, there's a great many amateurs producing a good deal of better stuff than a lot of professionals, but an mature can indulge their whims, a professional has to stick to the script he's given.

but, there are a few professionals who follow their whims (usually unpaid), and produce some splendid stuff.

i know i'm an amateur cause i still can't take the business seriously after 30+ years...

a professional has to stick to the script he's given.

No matter how boring, useless, complicated or otherwise ineffectual it is.
And it has to look like a multi-million dollar production on a pennies budget too :-)

Mike

I think the mark a true proffesional would be to do an add for/of washing powder that hadden being done before.

When your software, hardware, lighting, and camera investment >40 times the total amount ever paid.

How about:

"You know you're an amateur when you have the right answer for everything, when you really have no idea what you're talking about."

musicvid, I guess that makes me an amateur husband then because my wife accuses me of doing that daily :-)

Mike

I think the mark a true proffesional would be to do an add for/of washing powder that hadden being done before.

That's why I never use Babelfish.

How about:

You know you're an amateur when you throw a lot of technical jargon around to make people think your comment is above reproach.

OR

You answer a post, without fully reading or understanding it, based on a few buzz words you saw, and your answer is just a giant bloviation*.

*Copyright Notice. I hereby retain all rights to the newly coined word "bloviation", which is NOT in the dictionary. This new word should be quite useful here, so I don't want it watered down by constant use.

Or, "Never having to admit that you're wrong."
Or, "Never having to say, 'I don't know.'"

"*Copyright Notice. I hereby retain all rights to the newly coined word "bloviation", which is NOT in the dictionary."

Sorry, Bozo, but "bloviation" IS in the dictionary.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bloviate?db=dictionary

As Dr. Sheldon Cooper would say, "Bazinga!"

That's the problem with you, you have no education or experience so everything you blindly stumble across seems to be some sort of new discovery when in reality this stuff was coined, discovered or has been in use for years and you just didn't know it. You are so proud of the fact that you aren't a professional and that you're blazing these new trails in the art of making video. The fact is that you haven't come up with anything new. Ever. I guarantee that everything you have ever done has been tried before and much of it has been rejected.

Yes, I use "technical jargon" in describing technical concepts. Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean I'm blowing smoke. Seriously, get an education.

OK, OK, I didn't find it in OneLook.

Copyright hereby released.

"*Copyright Notice. I hereby retain all rights to the newly coined word "bloviation", which is NOT in the dictionary."

Wow. Just Wow.

Facepalm.