CBS College Sports Network

My time at CBS College Sports Network was a time to really learn how "the business" works.  From its seedling network days as College Sports Television, I watched the network grow and stride forward.  It seemed as each season passed, we were adopting a more efficient way of getting the same job done.

Up until the last few years, most editors would spend hours digitizing footage before they even began their edit.  With multiple editors accessing the same footage over and over, CBS College Sports was an early adopter of a tapeless environment.  As a solution, a company called B4M and their product, Fork was put into place.  This allowed producers to log their footage electronically prior to edit.  When the logged footage was brought into Final Cut, the logging information followed.  Upon completion, a Quicktime was made and the piece was ready to play out to air or archive.  While the system was surely full of shortcomings and crashed quite often, it offered us a glimpse as to what other technologies might be just around the corner.

CBS College Sports and College Sports Television was my home for five years.  I had the chance to work with a number of talented producers, edit on site for two Final Fours, and spend countless hours in Edit 5 trying to figure out every button and menu item Final Cut Studio had to offer.  My days there taught me much of what I know about editing.

It was really the people there that made the experience so amazing.  While most of us are moving on in our careers, I will always remember my time at the CS.