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Oct. 7th, 2005 06:09 pmArgh blah. The one SCAT staffer who is on-call this Saturday has a family emergency, so there will be nobody to let us in the studio tomorrow, and so filming's delayed another week. Welcome to the Big Time!
On the bright side I can already tell you that the overall quality of the second episode will be miles above the first, and it will probably take me at most half as long to put together. I have already started the process and it's turning true so far. It's not so much that Final Cut Pro is difficult to use (it isn't, really) as it is that there's so many ways to do everything that it takes a lot of practice to find your best workflow. I'm a lot closer to it now than I was two months ago.
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mrmorse and taskboy filmed great, even if the former was wearing a T-shirt that looks kind of weird on-camera, especially when his head is out of frame. (And our cameraman couldn't resist doing some tricks with it, which I didn't know until yesterday. They made me laugh out loud but I'm not sure if I'll use them.) The one with me and ruthling was OK, though there are color problems that cause me to glow like a Bakshi elf in some angles.
kyroraz has already made the special-thanks credits by loaning me a VCR so I can rip clips from a relevant old movie that's obscure enough to be VHS-only. Actually now that I think of it I should thank Hollywood Express as well for having this unlikely film on-hand. Then again I should probably wait until I make sure that it the ancient tape can actually play without VHS stripes.
Pretty sure that I'm done with A Song of Ice and Fire, halfway through the third book. I thoughtcthulhia was joking in her prediction of where she saw the series headed, but she was right on the money. I have like 500 more pages to slog through before the author finishes killing off the remainder of the first wave of protagonists and starts over with a fresh batch for the next volume, which is titled A Feast for Crows. Joy!
Seriously, between characters I no longer feel safe in caring about and the the ultimately nihilistic world that the story is set in (no scientific progress for millennia, during which the only events of note have been the petty wars of noble houses in order to rule this bleak and apparent technological cul-de-sac of a civilization), I find it very difficult to keep at it, no matter how well it's written. I might keep reading it anyway because it's there and the prose is tasty, but I dunno if I'll continue after.
That's Oh-for-three on successfully completing any fantasy series I've started since 2002 (unless you kindly count the first three Hobb books or the first five Amber books as individual series). Maybe I just don't like fantasy. Or maybe I actually don't like 10,000-page epics.
On the bright side I can already tell you that the overall quality of the second episode will be miles above the first, and it will probably take me at most half as long to put together. I have already started the process and it's turning true so far. It's not so much that Final Cut Pro is difficult to use (it isn't, really) as it is that there's so many ways to do everything that it takes a lot of practice to find your best workflow. I'm a lot closer to it now than I was two months ago.
The game between
mrmorse and taskboy filmed great, even if the former was wearing a T-shirt that looks kind of weird on-camera, especially when his head is out of frame. (And our cameraman couldn't resist doing some tricks with it, which I didn't know until yesterday. They made me laugh out loud but I'm not sure if I'll use them.) The one with me and ruthling was OK, though there are color problems that cause me to glow like a Bakshi elf in some angles.kyroraz has already made the special-thanks credits by loaning me a VCR so I can rip clips from a relevant old movie that's obscure enough to be VHS-only. Actually now that I think of it I should thank Hollywood Express as well for having this unlikely film on-hand. Then again I should probably wait until I make sure that it the ancient tape can actually play without VHS stripes.Pretty sure that I'm done with A Song of Ice and Fire, halfway through the third book. I thought
cthulhia was joking in her prediction of where she saw the series headed, but she was right on the money. I have like 500 more pages to slog through before the author finishes killing off the remainder of the first wave of protagonists and starts over with a fresh batch for the next volume, which is titled A Feast for Crows. Joy!Seriously, between characters I no longer feel safe in caring about and the the ultimately nihilistic world that the story is set in (no scientific progress for millennia, during which the only events of note have been the petty wars of noble houses in order to rule this bleak and apparent technological cul-de-sac of a civilization), I find it very difficult to keep at it, no matter how well it's written. I might keep reading it anyway because it's there and the prose is tasty, but I dunno if I'll continue after.
That's Oh-for-three on successfully completing any fantasy series I've started since 2002 (unless you kindly count the first three Hobb books or the first five Amber books as individual series). Maybe I just don't like fantasy. Or maybe I actually don't like 10,000-page epics.