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Pulled an all-nighter Fri → Sat both because I wanted to do some prep-work for the next day's Gameshelf shoot, and because I wanted to try resetting my sleep schedule. Have a meeting with a money-man Monday morning.

The shoot went well; taskboy filled in for mrmorse due to scheduling foul-ups, and did a killer job. I did OK but neglected to mention a bunch of stuff, including the IF Comp. Maybe I'll add a crawl about it, or something. Also spoiled a dumb-but-cute closing skit by saying "Geneva Bay" instead of "Lake Geneva". Dunno what I'm going to do about that.

Managed to step on a $15 microphone clip belonging to SCAT and will have to pony up for another one.

Hit the hay soon after getting home at 6pm, figuring that I'd snooze for 12 hours or so. Was all done after six hours. So now I'm waking up at the crack of midnight. Hm. Well, can't say I'm sleeping through the morning now, hurr hurr. Spent the morning so far importing and logging the new footage.

More chromakey nonsense as we tried and failed to use an actual green screen. I think I may use the cheesy-looking results anyway because the scene is like seven seconds long and whatever. Just the same, at some point I need to recruit someone who actually knows how to do chromakey shoots to teach us.

Time for breakfast.

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I really enjoy this music video, from the same producer as the Pi song's video. Completely different but you'll think it's awesome, at least if you're me. I like the intense, obsessive-compulsive quality about it.

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Before taking a nap (yay) and then going to dougo's for a game of Candamar (fun!) I threw a rough of the show together. When laid end-to-end, the clips I would like to use clock in at over 50 minutes, meaning I'll have to hack off around half of the total length for it to fit in its SCAT timeslot. And you know what? I don't want to do that, not when I believe that I have at least as many Internet viewers as TV ones. I originally conceived of this as an Internet-broadcast show and I think I still primarily think of it that way, even though I am so dependent on SCAT for its production right now.

One thing I can do, because Final Cut makes it simple to manage: create the long version for Internet distribution, and then branch it into a modified "TV cut" of the same show. These would exist as two different sequences within the same FCP project, pointing to the same media resources. I just might do this.

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Meanwhile, back on the business end of the glass teat: I am considering canceling all my TV service, thenceforth simply downloading all the shows I'm recommended. With the exception of Stella, every show I discovered on my own in recent memory was subsequently recommended to me by a friend, so I don't fear that I'll miss anything.

And I have to say that TiVo's really not been coming through on recommending new stuff to me, not in a long time. More often than not, the shows it auto-records for me are shows (and sometimes even movies) that I've already seen and given high ratings to. This is dumb; what it should auto-record is shows and movies that I haven't rated, but which are highly rated by people who like the shows I do. What it does now is basically useless. Did it used to work better? I think so. I don't know what happened.

jtroutman has been saying "The Internet is my TiVo" for a while, but I've only recently acquired the personal bandwidth and storage capacity to make this a reasonable strategy for myself. And, boy, the more I think about this, the better an idea it seems. I'll sleep on it, before I do anything rash. But I know it would feel good to cut all that from my life.