I know what you're going through, Ashton. When I started as an anchor in 1971 the newscast consisted of a talking head reading from a stack of papers. The only other video source was a 16mm film reel. The only graphics we had were captions typed on carbon paper which the director superimposed over the film. No videotape. No live shots. No green mat for keying the weather map. By the time I finished as a news producer and moved over to the entertainment division to have fun shooting rock videos and commercials the news was fully teleprompted with video cartridge carousel, electronic graphics, chroma-key, multiple live shots - most of the early basics of what you have today. It took lots of learning and adjusting. Many old timers resisted change. It seemed overwhelming at first and there were bugs to be worked out, but eventually it all came together and became routine...the new normal. It will happen that way for you, too. Take care and know that I am wishing you well, dear friend!

I agree that it will soon seem as though we've been doing it this new way for years... it's just the 2 weeks leading up to the transition that are tough. You're learning a new system while still operating on the old. And for non-tech-savvy people like me, keeping the 2 separate can be a bit of a challenge.