I have released Seven Dead Men under a creative commons license. I’ll be shipping DVD versions in a week or two. If you already have a copy, you’re most likely on the list to get another. If you’re not sure if you’re on the list, just ask.

2:02 am

Played around with the CUDA gpu-accelerated versions of distributed.net and Folding@home. RC5 runs on a core2 at ~7Mkeys/sec (* 2 cpus). A nVidia 260 hits 430Mkeys/sec, roughly thirty times faster. If only a) it could be used with my work applications and b) not periodically crash the computer.

5:03 pm

Edited a documentary-ish thing together for Carla, my neighbor, about last year’s Art Inside the Park.

9:09 pm

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 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

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

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

9:14 am

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

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