Am I neurotic, or is it just me?

Demo reels. Baaahh humbug.

Apply for an editing gig at Time Warner, and they ask for "Trailer Work ONLY" or "Feature Work ONLY". Apply at a post house and they want "Corporate and Commercial ONLY". Doc folks want the Ken Burns stuff. Indie filmmakers want the artsy stuff. Recently I've noticed a growing population asking for "no edited montages" (which I agree with). A lot of others refuse to watch demos on the web because they want to do all their screening on one TV.

The efficiency expert in me screams to create one long reel and disregard their requests. The neurotic perfectionist in me refuses to hand the reel over to the FedEx guy until every frame, dissolve, effect and cut has been jockeyed perfectly. Both MUST be wrong, so there must be some way to merge the two. Last year I created my mega-monsterous DVD, which had everything. I thought it was cool because it was a simply-designed interface that allowed people to do their own segregating. Nope. They became faced with "over-choice".

So here's an idea - whaddo'ya think?...
1.) At the end of an edit, create a full-res Quicktime file of the finished product.
2.) Keep 'em all on some external hard drive.
3.) When specific requests come in for reels, burn only what they need to a DVD.

Not sure what non-editing-system DVD programs are out there that create DVDs you can watch on a consumer DVD through a TV though. However, this would cut down tremendously of the hours of time it takes to create a demo.


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