gnomatron Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 I need a bit of help with the CV - I do some live video mixing work, but I'm not sure what to call it on my CV. "vision mixer" seems the obvious choice, but that's what the grey box with "panasonic" written on it is called too, which is a bit confusing. "Video technician" is a bit more general than I'd like. Any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulears Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 Are you serious? A vision mixer is what you are if you are the person who works the gadget that cuts between sources - this gadget may be called a vision mixer, but more often nowadays a switcher. If you don't know what you are called, then adding it to your CV does seem a little, er, optimistic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceecrb1 Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 The general industry name is "vidiot" all be it, mostly to lampies, riggers and soundies..... pretty sure its not suitable for a CV but you can try if you like? :) ;) :D :D :D :D :D :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnomatron Posted July 5, 2007 Author Share Posted July 5, 2007 tempting... "general vidiocy"... Oh well, vision mixer it is. May as well call a noiseboy a sound mixer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admachin Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 I would go for video technition as in my eyes it looks more proffesional but thats just my opinion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gareth Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 I would go for video technition as in my eyes it looks more proffesionalReally?! I definitely wouldn't put that job title on a CV, as it doesn't look professional at all ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob_Beech Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 No I agree. Even if it was spelt properly I would go for vision mixer. That to me looks more proffesional (sic). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbuckley Posted July 6, 2007 Share Posted July 6, 2007 We've done this one before, I can't be ars*d searching for it, but my memory tells me the switcher is the machine, and the mixer is the person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djw1981 Posted July 6, 2007 Share Posted July 6, 2007 Well given we have an FOH engineer not a sound mixer, maybe you are a AV engineer / video engineer / presentations engineer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ike Posted July 6, 2007 Share Posted July 6, 2007 If I saw a CV with "video engineer" on it I would expect them to be very technically knowledgeable on everything from video protocols to hardware and be able to spec, design, set up and fault find complex systems. If they couldn't I'd see it as a lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceecrb1 Posted July 6, 2007 Share Posted July 6, 2007 yeah to me a video engineer is a video rack engineer... ie video signal quality control....(like my godfather was) I'm going to throw this into the conversation.... WATCH TV watch the credits...what is the job title stated as before the name? vision mixer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted July 6, 2007 Share Posted July 6, 2007 ... the switcher is the machine, and the mixer is the person.Not in the UK. Over here a switcher is a different beast; it's what we call the main switching matrix or router. Nope, the bit of kit which selects sources and mixes or wipes between them is called the vision mixer and it's driven by the vision mixer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterT Posted July 6, 2007 Share Posted July 6, 2007 I do some live video mixing work, but I'm not sure what to call it on my CV. "vision mixer" seems the obvious choice, ...snip... "Video technician" is a bit more general than I'd like. Any thoughts? What I've put on my CV, having done some video mixing/preparation on more than a few occasions, is to simply state that I have experience of setting up and operating AV equipment. Obviously if you're going for an AV job then you'll need to be much more specific but if, like me, it's a general dogsbody-type job then just stating that you have a general experience would be enough and then they can ask you about it at interview. But then that's just me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulears Posted July 6, 2007 Share Posted July 6, 2007 While I agree, Brian - certainly for spoken langauge, but with the manufacturers now internationally branding the products as switchers and not vision mixers, the engineering mobs are having to enter the lantern/luminaire phase, and change their terminology to suit the person being communicated with! A google search for vision mixer, is pretty fruitless - the basic Panasonics and similar turn up - but you won't get any mention of the bigger players. The Beeb, and pretty well all the europeans still label them vision mixers (thank goodness, as that's a damn good description), but the manufactures have dropped it, and have switchers and routers, instead of our vision mixers and routers. Daft, really. I was talking at the Broadcast Show to For-a, and they were still speaking "Vision mixers", which was nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete McCrea Posted July 6, 2007 Share Posted July 6, 2007 Sorry for a 'Me Too' post, but as someone who uses Freelance People, I'd be perfecly happy with Vision Mixer. That would say to me that they can Vision mix a Show. A Video Engineer would indicate that they have more in depth knowledge of video systems. They might be the same person who has the ability to do both roles. It maybe that a Vision Mixer doesn't have the skills of a Video Engineer, but they are more artistic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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