Spent the last week getting up to speed on the audio. Got everything roughly hammered into a 5.1 mix. Needs a lot more work.

Ordered some new hardware, a little TR4U enclosure with hopes of building a ZFS array. After that an AlphaTrack, hopefully it will make managing audio levels easy.

10:51 am

Final cut, #3. Know I missed a shot or two. And I hesitate to use the phrase done. But getting close.

9:14 am

Getting closer, pushed a second final cut out.

Bought an Apple TV, been playing around with it. I wish getting content into the h.264 variant it likes was a bit easier, but once there it’s a pretty slick piece of kit.

12:40 pm

Final cut, #1. A bunch of little things I’ll probably tweak yet. The audio needs to be cleaned up, mixed. But the bulk of the work seems complete.

A long time to get here. A bunch yet to go. A single step at a time.

1:25 am

Gotten the shake scripts mostly hacked into place. Did the first attempt at color correction. Looked terrible, hastily cranking out the second pass.

12:40 am

Native Gimp.app looks quite nice freed from X11. In a similar vein, I’ve been using Mac OpenOffice builds for the past few months without many issues.

12:02 pm

Spent the last week or two getting deep into shake. I’ve used it off and on for a few years now but have never really pushed things too far. But in the past few days have gone deeper than ever before.

I see why people like the program: at its heart is shell scripting. So if you want to make a change to a bunch of shots, a regex find/replace will do it in about a second. If you have everything set up correctly, which is the tricky part. The reverse corollary is that you can screw up about fifty shots in a second. I only mention that as a theoretical concern.

6:45 pm

Getting ever closer.

11:34 am

Second polish cut, getting a little smoother. Consolidated all my backups, liking Time Machine.

2:30 am

Made the first polish cut on Sunday, got the Flash code live. Played around with ZFS, crashed my computer a number of times.

3:58 am