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

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

A new year, decided to redo the main site. Unified my CSS. Cleaned up all my old php scripts, making them database-agnostic. This allowed me to dump five or so year’s worth of detritus from my SQL tables, so now they’re all shiny again.

Switched all the Sorenson 3 stuff over to H.264. I kinda liked Sorenson, it was compatible back to 2001: forever in computer terms. But it’s an evolutionary dead end, H.264 and its variants are the future. Now the main page works with an iPhone as well as the iPod Touch.

In theory, the latest flash betas will play 264 if it’s piped in correctly, which means that Linux and Windows boxes without Quicktime will be able to watch things. But getting that working is a project for another day.

2:03 am

Third rough cut, starting to be semi-presentable.

4:50 pm