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| Work is busy, work outside of work is busy, wedding planning is busy, life is busy. So much busy stuff.
Wedding Invitations are difficult when they aren't printed for you.
Wedding photographers need to learn to charge less than $300/hr. or at least give you pictures for that price, instead of ONLY taking pictures for that price.
Moose survival rates are going up, but the cypress trees are being clear cut for mulch and timber, while the Eagles have returned to the Hudson River.
Redbox might just kill me.
-aaron-out
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| An update blog is coming. Work is overwhelming at times.
For
instance, right now I'm working on around 12 different stories (its
actually more like 16 in the process), and each story is cut for 3
different stations 3 different lengths, 3 different ways, and has to be
delivered to different people on different formats.
The actual cutting is easy, keeping everything straight in my head is another thing.
I've
tried to organize several different ways. I'm trying to get my boss to
introduce NetOffice, which I found out about from Nick Pappas, but
we'll see if that happens within the next few months or so. So until
then I'm stuck with my white board which keeps current projects on
there, and an excel document list that is turning out to work out
pretty well.
I'll also get pictures of my editing room up, its looking pretty awesome. | | |
| I am getting sick, but that seems to be the usual thing for the past 5 or 6 years. I always get sick around this time and around the end of April....any guesses? I think my body is so accustomed to the usual stress of exams around these weeks that it has gotten on a cycle of being sick every year around this time. Ahhh, yet another reason to get rid of the education system (just kidding, just kidding). So thats kinda weird. But just been doing the usual Vitamin C and Airborne thing.
Started color correction on the buffalo story today. Some of the shots came out looking really good. One of the cuts goes out tomorrow, so it will probably take Yahoo a few weeks to post the story. I'll send you a link when it gets up.
Need to finish x-mas shopping over this week. I just need a couple more things. Probably going to Kohls tomorrow (50% off sale). Recently I've been looking for more sweaters, as in Florida I got rid of most of my warm clothes stock, esp. for FR.
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| 1. The Prebels Jumping Mouse is no ordinary mouse, he was around during the ice age, and that my friends is a long time. Therefore we should tip-toe around him and let them thrive in Colorado.
2. Buffalo will only survive if we eat them.
3. Editors are lazy people. Usually when my computer is rendering/capturing I work on something else. However when I asked my boss what I could do while I was capturing a long tape..."oh, watch tv, play x-box...whatever you want." (and i'm still getting paid while that would be happening) I chose to watch the capture and write notes on the script....which when I started editing I promptly forgot about and just re-cut it a different way (which worked better).
4. Final Cut Pro is a pretty cool program. But it does have faults, and I've seemed to hit most of them this week in mistakes I've made.
5. While carrying his HDV deck, my boss informed me that it costs about 2 Honda CRVs....great.
6. Working for someone who keeps a fridge stocked with sodas, water, etc, and a kitchen stocked with candy, cereal bars, popcorn, etc is pretty cool. Oh yeah, and we can take however much we want, whenever we want. Oh and whats also cool is that he actually treats employees to lunch sometimes.
7. 6:30am comes too quickly, but after a few days, I'm quite acclimated to it.
8. Learning that not only am I going to get the new G5 Quad core to work with, but hes also putting a new plasma screen (the professional models, not the ones at best buy) in my room (42" I believe) in January (on top of the client monitor thats already in there....the plasma is just for show/when the client comes in...score)
9. Meeting and getting to work with a guy who not only do I recognize his voice from the news, but I remember watching news stories by him when I was a kid (and enjoying them).
10. Cutting for news is unfortunately crappier than cutting for film...however it has given me a new challenge to work on. How can I satisfy the client while improving the artistic quality of the work?....we'll see!
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| So after months of waiting, calling, etc. I finally scored a job at a post-production house and had my first day today. So today I was working on the Food Network program Good Eats with Alton Brown. The programs (there were 6 or 7) had already been edited, and had gone into Final Touch for color correcting. However, when coming out of Final Touch (sorry, it gets slightly technical here) Final Cut wasn't accepting the XML imports from Final Touch. So basically they had to re-export all of the shots individually, and then link them up in the timeline shot-by-shot. That was pretty enjoyable, and I'll be finishing up the last episode and a half tomorrow morning. The guy that hired me said I got about twice as much done as he thought I would, so I suppose thats a good thing. I'd never really seen good quality HD before, and I suppose and editing bay is about the best you'll get....it looked very crisp and clean.
I also met this guy today, and will be editing some of his Assignment: Earth videos. We've got a few due before the holidays, so work will be pretty steady until then. And if all goes well this will continue for the next year or so, unless i screw up big-time....in that case i'll be living in a van down by the river.
Oh yes, and i bought my plane ticket three days ago. I'm going to France for Christmas to be with Helen and her family. So I'll leave the 18th of December and be back the 4th of January...which is funny because I'm actually spending more time in France than Helen is. My plane tickets were several hundred bucks cheaper if I went there for a longer period of time. Well thats about all i can think of....peace.
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