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Love the write up and insight into the world of a professional. Don’t take this the wrong way, I’m genuinely curious… what is a video professional doing on HN?

• dylan604 4y ago
  I've been banging code since I was 10 copying BASIC from the back of a magazine into a C64. Got into video production in high school. Saw an entire table full of existing video equipment get replaced by a single video card inside of an Amiga. Decided then and there that I'd be doing video on computers. Got a job during college that put me in really cool video/film post house. Learned the entire process of working with film from developing, transferring to video, editing that video, then taking that edit back to film negative editing. Once it went full digital and streaming, because of my knowledge of how the post process works, I knew how to prep video to remove interlacing, 3:2 pulldown, etc for handing off to streaming platforms. That work can require a lot of custom code to automate. So when I get bored and burned out of the video engineering/coding jobs, I go back to production for a little while. When I get tired of being broke as an "artist", I go back to coding for money. Covid killed my last round of production work, so I went back to video engineering for couple of start ups. probably more than you really wanted to know, but that's it summed up in graph. i've learned that if a job requires working with a computer in any way, knowing how to bang code will come in handy even if it's not a coding job. just knowing how to automate a few things here and there makes cubicle life less mundane.