I started a couple of businesses. The first one was an insurance agency that I sold when I divorced. Later I started my own multimedia business. My mentor in the insurance business was probably the best office manager in New England. I learned his office systems and more importantly how to analyze office workflow and develop robust office procedures. When I started my own multimedia business I was on the bleeding edge of digital audio and video technology. They did a pretty good job of creating an edit decision list (EDL) if I was simply doing cuts. But if I wanted to do complex transitions or digital effects the disks were too small to do any long effects. ... Computers were not fast enough to stream video from the tape I had to run the tape back and forth digitizing a frame at a time. Finally the audio and video were not really integrated very well. My $4000 tape deck needed to sacrifice stereo track when I added time code. So I had to save the stereo tracks, blow away one track with the time code, do the edits, do the complete transitions, put the stuff back to tape and put the stereo tracks and audio effects onto the final product. It was a long and complex process.