No, you’re not going blind. It’s just that I think I have enough tech frames now to do a quick prof of concept for the DVD note card. A “tech frame” is a frame from the raw footage, usually from the very beginning or the very end of the sequence. It usually shows the tech starting or stopping the camera, but it sometimes also shows the interesting goings-on immediately before or after a flight.

In any case, I started grabbing these from the very beginning with the thought that I’d find a use for them at some point. And how about this? We use them in mosaic form as a background for the blow-in card in the DVD case. One mosaic of the tech frames for the technical notes and one mosaic using camper frame grabs for the explanatory stuff and credits.

Pretty cool, eh?