Do we need a Count Down?
Posted on March 29, 2009 by Servant | News| Tags: annoyance, count down timer | Comments feed
Count down video segments are useful for coordinating the showing of a video with another event. In the motion picture industry, they were originally used to synchronize the sound with the picture (i.e. when they were on separate media.) Here is an example of a 10 second count:
Is there any point in including this type of segment in production video clips? Or is it just an annoyance? What do you think?
July 31, 2010 by servant
These leaders are a throwback to the era when actual film had to be threaded and started to show something. It has no place in modern video settings, where the director just pushes a play button and the image starts appearing to thousands.