Found some red footage on the internet, got it working with Final Cut. The workflow seems to work okay, roughly the same as the HVX with some additional wrapper files. Limited to 2k, but presumably that will come as well in the future.

Which is the real question. Apple has been pretty quiet on the pro app front the past couple of years. The updates that have come out have been bug fixes and codec tweaks for the most part. My hope is that they have been secretly rewriting everything over to 64 bit cocoa and the release is targeted for Snow Leopard. My fear is that video will never match the revenue of iPods/Phones and so the plan is simply to slap another coat of paint on and ship a new version. The first option would be my hope for the new year, but I’ve been wrong many times before.

If so, then perhaps the time has come to part with my faithful little PPC Powerbook. Getting old and behind the curve. It’s not the only one, unfortunately.

11:33 am

Been putting off upgrading to mysql 5 for a long time. Was convinced I’d found a bug in the code where it wouldn’t modify the database under certain circumstances. Finally sat down and went through things to discover some idiot had been sending the updates to the wrong database. Once I went through and corrected his terrible mistake, everything became hunky dory.

Onwards to the next project: putting off upgrading to mysql 6.

1:46 pm

Been doing a little writing on a new script. Decided a while back to reconsider the rantings of all those crazy teachers who wanted me to spend more time in the outline stage. As a result, managed to get to that fifty page “the end is nearer than it is far” point with only a few weeks of writing. It would appear they might have known what they were talking about.

But if anybody asks, I will deny everything. I have a reputation to uphold.

10:08 pm

Used Adobe Encore (DSP doesn’t support it) to create a blu-ray version of the project and then burned it to a dual layer dvd-r disk. Went over to Best Buy, popped it into their display machine, and it worked first try. When that happens I usually assume fate is toying with me, but I’ll take it.

Amongst the other things that happened today, this is very interesting.

9:42 pm

The D word. Rhymes with gub. Saying it might jinx it, though. Gonna take a day or two off and see if there’s anything else I wanna muck with.

In the meantime, started on the subtitles. Subtitles suck.

4:31 pm

Got WordPress working with an iPod touch. Yet another thing that I never had before but didn’t know how desperately I needed.

In other news, made a first version of the DVD.

11:14 am

Fourth version of the audio. Some levels munging yet to go, but it’s about as far as I can push it.

After that a few shots need to be tweaked. But slowly getting there.

2:04 am

Kicked out a third version of the audio. Gonna have to do at least a fourth, but slowly getting closer.

10:59 am

Got a better version of the audio together. Sent back the AlphaTrack, it didn’t really integrate with Soundtrack Pro all that well. Built the ZFS array, so far so good.

4:28 pm

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