Back in my college days my TV professor said that there is some accountant in Reseda who has bought all the latest editing software for his kid and that kid is a wiz at editing. As adults we will never be able to compete unless we specialize and make a name for ourselves as a dialog editor, action editor and so on.

When video cameras were placed in the hands of the consumer all of a sudden a bunch of self-proclaimed professionals were born.  If you asked for a shooter with experience all would raise their hand as they have shot their cousins wedding or tapped Christmas morning when they first opened the camera box. Those of us that had some experience would laugh to ourselves because there was a vast difference between a novice and a pro.

Today, that distance is gone. With professional equipment becoming more affordable, more channels of distribution like YouTube and current.tv, and more training available like the Travel Channel Academy or current’s free instruction pages the novices are now the pros.

Fox was the first to stumble on the low cost production of reality TV with the show COPS.  With Network TV grasping for air things are changing fast.  There is a big concern that offshoring is taking jobs. That concern is real, however, in the TV Industry our jobs are not going to India! Its little Jimmy down the street uploading his videos for free that is changing everything.

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