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[prog]

Turned in the TV edit of the Gameshelf yesterday. At just over 27 minutes, it's a little more than half as long as the original version. Some parts were harder to cut out than others. Removing my lengthy analysis of Star Control 2's cruelties was painful, but it bought me several minutes, and I kept the pointer to the player's guide I wrote which goes over the same points.

Also made a promo that I should hand over tomorrow when I show up to help crew I will share that as a curiosity the next time I'm at home. Also the promo I threw together yesterday evening, which I oughtta give SCAT tomorrow.

Even when I'm fully efficient with it this show eats several days out of each month, which I should feel antsy about given that I'm allegedly in insane-startup mode. But it makes me so happy, on so many levels. It tickles my ego, it's a great creative outlet, I can involve my friends, I get my money's worth out of this G5 I bought for no good reason last year, and I continue to thrill at gaining levels in a class that's still new to me. I mean, TV production, what the hell. Even a year ago today I could not have predicted that I'd be doing this.

Also the fact that I'm actually doing it. Two full shows in the can and more to come. How different this is than my usual pattern of starting something initially exciting and then wandering away when I hit the hard part, or seeing it through to completion, but absolutely hating it by the end.

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It occurred to me yesterday that I can publish my "the gameshelf"-tagged posts to the show's homepage, and *poof* give the show a blog, with comments. I know LJ has an API for exporting journal content... I'll siddown and figure it out sometime soon.

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Have you thought of putting it up as a video podcast on iTMS? You could serialize it if a full 30 min program seemed too long (even at 320x240 or whatever small resolution you might squeeze it down to).

It might get you a bigger audience...

[prog.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I forgot to note my thoughts on that.

mrmorse recently visited with his shiny new video iPod. We loaded the first draft of the 50-minute version onto it, and it looked great. I immediately wanted to share the show. Unfortunately iTMS doesn't support BitTorrent, which is what two of the three current shows use... i'd have to create a regular-old HTTP feed, too. So maybe I will.

I don't think that size is an issue. I would imagine that, as with all podcasts, its lifetime on the iPod would be short. The 50-minute version (prior to resizing the view to iPod dimensions) is around 300MB, which IIRC means you could fit 20 of them on the current video iPod. No worries.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

I was worried more about downloading time (on the internet side, not the USB/dock side) than storage space; bandwidth hasn't kept up with drive space.

But I guess folks can just queue up podcasts in the background and ignore them until they arrive...