Re: See yourself in this clip?

Mike,
What about checkerboard auto assembles? Even harder to explain.

I once had a producer insist that I didn't know what I was doing because (on 1", way before pre-read) he only had an A reel and wanted to dissolve from a shot we just laid (on the record machine) to another shot on his A reel. So I tell him I'll have to roll that shot off onto some dub stock to do that. "why?, I don't want to loose a generation" "Just match frame, and dissolve from here (the record machine) to here" (A reel).
My answer "You can't dissolve to the record machine, you have to have two sources for a dissolve". This went on and on. Even to the point of telling me that "the guys over at XXXX do it all the time". Implying that editors at one of the other affiliates knew what they were doing, and I didn't. Also same guy's TC's he logged, were all wrong because they were actually counter numbers.
Funny now. Nightmare then.