Before taking a nap (yay) and then going to dougo's for a game of Candamar (fun!) I threw a rough of the show together. When laid end-to-end, the clips I would like to use clock in at over 50 minutes, meaning I'll have to hack off around half of the total length for it to fit in its SCAT timeslot. And you know what? I don't want to do that, not when I ( Read more... )

Worked all day trying to get a really clever bluescreen backdrop idea to work. It's just not happening... the source footage just isn't cooperating, no matter how many sick matte-hacks I discover and apply. (I invented my own way, for example, to remove an arbitrary area from a clip's alpha channel, an operation that ended up being necessary for mrmorse's ( Read more... )

A little more than halfway done with the Gameshelf edits, after two evenings of labor. Becoming really dangerous with FCP. I will tentatively declare that it seems to be worth every penny; so far every time I have thought "Gee, I bet there's a way to foo using bar," I have been able to look up bar in the online docs and find a "How to foo" ( Read more... )

I used up my monthly ZipCar prepay for the first time. Good, good, I don't feel like I'm wasting my money on it anymore. (I drove a couple bucks over the line yesterday, and my account cycles tomorrow.)

Final Cut Pro is, so far, totally awesome, though I'm only partway into logging the ~8 hours of footage collected last weekend. And the manuals ( Read more... )

My roster is almost full for Saturday's Gameshelf shoot; if I haven't contacted you about it already this week, and you wanted in, let me know ASAP. We have quorum as it is, though, including a camera volunteer ( Read more... )

I am almost surely gonna get myself a copy of Final Cut Pro before I start editing together the first real episode of The Gameshelf. I can get it for about 30 percent of its retail price through my .edu discount, making it still pretty expensive but cheap enough to be tempting... around the same cost as a brand-new just-released game console, maybe ( Read more... )