Most Days

One of the things that is pretty cool about my job is that I’m upstairs in the editing bay working on our artist Ratindra Das. Downstairs I can hear Susan taking a phone order for DVDs that were edited before I came here but I still know their stories. (One is my grandmother’s DVD and I really remember the process for that one.) This is what is so fun about being a part of a small business: you can see your work materialize. The video I’m currently editing will travel downstairs to Lynn for the first check. From there it will travel back upstairs to Zach and I will get to hear everything I’ve already edited a million times as he cleans out all audio bumps and works color. Then it will go back to Lynn and a cover will be designed while Zach takes all of our edited work and create chapters and the DVD itself. Zach sends a DVD to the artist to check and when it comes back it goes off to the duplicator somewhere in California. Zach makes a trailer that will be put on the web and then a test DVD comes back and Jim and Zach check for errors and anything we may have missed. And then with one more send off, we wait for a few weeks and a giant pile of boxes cheerfully arrive from our UPS guy. And then I get to hear the phone call and Susan talking with customers about something I helped create. Some days pass really slowly (as all jobs occasionally have this) but other days (most days really), there is such and excitement in the air and I feel very lucky to be a part of a great team.