Time to learn me some audio stuff. (Nobody tell the clients)
Dirty Diaper = when someone hands over a shit project they havenāt been looking after.
Haha this could be good or bad. Iām trying to get permission to load it on the Flame Iām working on.
Land mine = when someone hides something in a timeline or batch comp that is hard for another artist to catch.
Somewhere. 
This. Is. Legendary.
@Quinn exactly. There are many examples. Picking up multiple hard committed layers in a deep timeline always gets me.
A āShoveā
The opposite of a āliftā
Where you do a spot and the ācutdownsā include extra handles and/or shots.
Andy said ābunch of kidsā. You should get the twins startedā¦
I love this!
Ha! My boys were too shy. My 8 year old daughter? Sheād be a great art director.
She could work for 72 and Sunny and fit right in!
You need to get her an agent ASAP!
Kids are amazing. And brutal.
Me, to my 12 year old sonā¦
āHey Sam, Iām trying to make these rocks look wet. Do you think these look wet?ā
Samā¦
āNo. I donāt see any water.ā
Savages.
Haha teens can be a-holes but we love them anyways.
Oh reminds me of another term I use:
Innocent Eye Test
I will grab someone random, preferably someone with no experience in our field, and show them a shot as a check for if it looks good or if the fix is invisible.
āOptical encryptionā : a very messy batch setup.
āIām working on the shot youāre having me pick up, but there is a lot of optical encryption to get throughā
Also useful for those āsend us the setupsā clients.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Eric, that is GENIUS!!
I know the holiday party already happened, but I just came off set today and came up with this one:
eggo (noun)
- A person in a decision-making position who constantly waffles between options.
- One with bad taste and weak opinions.
e.g. āIād love to move on to the next shot, but that stack of eggos over in virtual video villiage keeps changing their minds on which way the line should be read."
and of courseā¦in Europe theyād be called Belgiansā¦
And a nuclear bad one could be a Van Damme.
Obviously used in verb form as well.
I totally dropped the ball on this for the holiday party. (I warned people: I have a 30 second attention span.) Letās keep them coming and weāll figure it out later.