What complicated workflow work around you routinely use that would seem absurd to someone entering the industry today?
ASKED BY · Josh Kaufman · PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA · 29 SEP 2026 · ▶ 00:51:32
Describes a complex Rube Goldberg workflow using Snapstream to record TV in TS format, then watch folders pulling into Telestream Vantage to transcode and re-mux for different targets, providing scripting education through necessity.
Now shares nonlinear editing systems in the cloud with collaborators and uses AI like Claude integrated with BlackMagic to automatically assemble edits in minutes, contrasting sharply with old barriers to entry.
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51:31now sharing a nonlinear editing system. It's in the cloud. We're sharing the timeline. I'm watching him edit. He's watching me edit. We're seeing things in real time. But then just last week, we did hook up Claude to Black Magic and he is not an editor but he assembled an edit in a matter of minutes because we've got the pipes all connected together
51:59and so in this exponential thing that used to be the barrier to entry of doing something we are now physically being duct taped to the outside of the rocket ship of things that are happening So while we're bringing up these old archive dusty things, then the generation that's not listening to this show is is doing things that we didn't know couldn't that we didn't we didn't believe could be done because we didn't have the imagination.
52:29So I'm going to I'm going to vote for what complicated workflow is routinely used. I'm going to say the imagination. That is a pretty complicated workflow. David Brady, thoughts? Yeah. For us in the work group that I was with, we used to record just about everything on TV via this product called Snapstream. And Snapstream would do it in TS format, but then we had to deliver things to sports division, all these other places, in whatever flavor that they wanted.
53:04So we had this complicated Rube Goldberg system that would, the Snapstream would record to one drive. We'd have some watch folders that would then get pulled into a Telestream Vantage. And depending on what the target was, it would transcode and re-mux everything. And it was just overly complicated for us to do on the front end for people down the road instead of them doing it on their local thing.
53:30But it was still fun. it was a scripting education for sure. And maybe that was the point. It got you into a different way of thinking. And the first time you dive into something like scripting where there's legitimate rules you have to follow, it kind of programs your brain to think in a different way. And that way turns out to be really useful
53:51for a lot of other things you do. Let's go to our next question. Oh, that's me. Josh Kaufman in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania says, If you had to produce a show today using only gear available 25 years ago, what would be the hardest modern capability to give up? Oh, my God. Everybody wants to get on this because it would be difficult. So, Guy punched first.
54:16So, Guy, you're up. Then Sky, then David. Guy, go. Well, I was looking for the video where I made one on the Firestore FS4, which was the first affordable way of digitally capturing DV. as a a stream so it was coming through the firewire port recording onto a file and that was pretty amazing so i'm going to say that these tapes which uh i have oh yeah here
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