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.
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, #3. Know I missed a shot or two. And I hesitate to use the phrase done. But getting close.
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, #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.
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.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.
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.
Getting ever closer.
Second polish cut, getting a little smoother. Consolidated all my backups, liking Time Machine.
