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soundtrack pro

Brett — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:51:25 +0000

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.

final cut three

Brett — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:14:09 +0000

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

Second final cut

Brett — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:40:24 +0000

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.

final cut

Brett — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:25:15 +0000

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.

color

Brett — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:40:00 +0000

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

native gimp

Brett — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:02:41 +0000

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.

shake

Brett — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:45:16 +0000

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.

third polish cut

Brett — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:34:19 +0000

Getting ever closer.

second polish cut

Brett — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:30:05 +0000

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

polish cut

Brett — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 09:58:48 +0000

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