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

Finished a second rough cut. Funny how much easier cutting is when you know where the thing is going.

1:34 am

Had a nice Thanksgiving. Finished a rough cut of the project. Added some stills to the project page. Exporting a DVD.

1:42 am

Well, anything that can go wrong, will.  My brand shiny new 1TB hard drive I’d consolidated the project onto died.

Lost a day of work and some old video files I copied off while upgrading my laptop to leopard.  Yay for making backups. 

11:22 am

Got everything into the computer, did an assembly. I don’t remember shooting twelve hours of footage, but there it is.

11:46 am

Primary shooting is done. Almost exactly five months since I began. A long ways yet to go, but still a nice milestone.

1:30 am