Antonyms for Ingest

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Hi, Martha. This is Mitch calling from Miami.

Hi, Mitch.

Hey, what’s up, Mitch? How you doing?

I’m doing well today. How are you guys doing?

All right. What can we help you with?

I work in the entertainment industry, mostly with theme parks and museums.

And with that, we use a lot of video playback systems, so video players and video screens.

And we have a process that we call ingest, meaning we take video that somebody else has made, and we put it into the system.

Now, oftentimes we have to remove this video, but we don’t have a word for that, like a verb that would mean the opposite of ingest in this instance.

I worked a little bit around the edges of the video industry for a while, and ingest is a fairly standard term, right?

Yeah, for us it is.

And so a lot of times it just means you’re taking video to use for your own purposes.

Sometimes it’s pieces of video that you’re going to compile into something else, or you’re, I don’t even know, you’re going to edit it up into something nice or small or large or whatever.

So you’re adding pieces of video to a larger one?

Sometimes it’s just one piece of video that you put into a system so that you can use it in that system.

What do you mean a system?

So it could be, like he said, it could be something as simple as a monitor that’s on a counter that just plays a movie on a loop.

Oh, I see.

It could actually be an Avid editing system or Final Cut Pro where you’re putting a lot of video all in one place and you’re going to actually make an entire movie out of all these different scenes that you’ve shot.

That’s ingesting as well.

Okay.

So it’s all about moving video from your outside system to your primary system, whatever it is you’re concentrating your attention on.

Okay, so you’re ingesting it.

You’re ingesting it, yeah.

But your question then, Mitch, is when you take it off, why doesn’t delete work?

Delete for us, it’s usually a lot more involved than that because it means that you’re removing a file, but you also have to do a lot more processes.

And for our clients, if we just say, oh, just delete it, they sometimes and actually usually jump to conclusions that this can be an easy, very simple process.

Oh, I see.

Okay.

It’s not that you want to bill more, that it’s actually complicated.

They don’t get how complicated it is.

You want a fancy word that sounds like $200 an hour.

Essentially, yeah.

Okay.

Well, you could do the opposite, e-gest maybe, but that’s a little too close to ingest.

That’s not a common word.

Maybe decombobulate?

There we go, yeah.

Maybe not.

Something like that.

The terms that we usually end up searching for end up based in biology, which are usually not the most appropriate responses for something like this.

Oh, really? Based in biology? Like bodily functions?

To excrete it?

Like if you ingest a meal, what usually happens if the meal comes up?

Exactly.

You regurgitate it.

Okay.

You divest yourself of the ingestion.

Divest. I like that.

Divest actually might.

Huh.

I kind of like that.

I’m thinking about how the word populate used to seem so foreign to me when people would use that, like, to populate a form online.

Oh, right, yeah.

And now it doesn’t seem weird to me at all.

Oh, yeah.

That’s a great one.

That’s a really good.

So depopulate actually sounds kind of mean.

No, that doesn’t sound good.

It sounds like video side.

Boy, this is a tough one.

So what else do you use besides to regurgitate?

Or is there another term that you’ve tried out?

We’ve tried simply deleting, but like I said, people jump to conclusions about that.

We really haven’t found anything that works well enough for us to remember them even.

Well, we’ll throw the word out there.

I assume you’ve looked at all the various video glossary archive thingies out there on the Internet, right?

Yeah, yeah, we have.

It’s one of those things that it comes up in meetings all the time, and then somebody gets an idea to Google, and then they never really find anything useful.

Well, it’s possible that other people are facing this same problem, Mitch, so we’ll find out.

I would love that.

Yeah, we have a million coiners in the audience, lots of people who like to neologize.

If you’ve got a word for Mitch, what is he really doing?

What’s the process called when he takes a video out of his system?

It’s not really deletion.

It’s something more than that.

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Mitch, we’re going to help you.

It’s just going to take some time.

Wonderful.

Thank you.

Thanks so much.

Take care now.

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