40/29 News Open: Storm Team 2002

 

Celebrating five twister-tastic decades of tornado forecasting, this 2002 weather special at KHBS/KHOG started off with this not-too-long, not-too-short open. The music bed makes it more than the actual editing does, to be honest. A NOTE ABOUT VIDEO QUALITY I began archiving my work-related video years before YouTube existed. It was an age of darkness, an age of limited web storage, an age of... {shudder} ...dial-up connections. More to the point, my work archive at my site was all dependent on... {shudder some more} ...Adobe Flash. These videos were converted, usually from either the master MII or Beta tapes of from VHS dubs, with a program called Sorenson Squeeze. Sorenson is great for what it does, but with scenes featuring a lot of motion, there's often a lot of pixellation and motion artifacting that's considered unacceptable these days. The Sorenson files were also generated at a very small resolution, and thus the video extracted from them could only be the same resolution. (I no longer work at any of the TV stations for whom I produced these spots, and as such no longer have access to the master tapes.) I hope you enjoy this little walk down local TV memory lane.