Floozy Speak!

I like how movable type and just keep changing its face over and over. See I like that, I need to do more of that, be that of that and stuff.

Let's see whats happening? Hmmmm work has been crazy as ever, but doing good stuff and enjoying it. We got this little pinhole camera in the other day for a project and i quickly patched together some video around it. Check it out online at lextant.

Summer is coming and much to be had as weather gets warmer. Course my room at home will turn into a motherboard melting factory as well, I need to cool it down better. It's gonna be ghastly hot in there I fear. Sure there's AC but then theres AC for yer heat frenzy pcs. I feel flat panels coming as well. Save energy, less heat etc.

Editing flylife has struck me with the editing bug once again. I really like editing for fun, just pure edit release ya know. A little creative mayhem goes a long way.

Speaking of video I missed this years NAB action in vegas. So I had to tap into an old boss in town I had back from my days at Industrial Video. Anyways he gives me the low down on all the great video magic happening. I couldn't believe it, once great and power Avid boxes that were 150k are now 24k. Amazing. I remember those mammoth boxes that were 150k and did like dissolves and film editing and a few effects heh. Now these new boxes 24k are doing five real time streams.... FIVE real time streams.. Ok so yer saying WTF is that? So what?? Five keys, five effects, five picture in pictures, five streams of DV goodness all in real time. Thats a hoot baby. I remember three streams being the shit, and then four streams being like 500k and now we got five streams at 24k. Man I need to get back into more video. Course they did drop the price on XpressDV, its now $999 to compete with Final Cut Pro on the Mac. But theres a new gizmo for me to get as well, the Avid Mojo Accelerator. Basically a breakout box for the XpressDV, gives me analog in/out abilities, which i dont run into that often but its nice to have. It also makes most if not all effects real time, but dont do alot of effects and it wont accelerate After Effect ones I bet. However it does give me a low res batch feature which would be nice, I miss AVR3, and you can mix it on the timeline which is cool. Low res feature just allows you to look at more footage at once vs having 40hrs of DV footage on yer system and you needing a few terabytes of space etc. Not as applicable to me now as it used to be when I was at ADV.

Luckily the more video I do at work the more it shows up in proposals and people really take to it as something we should do more off.

One thing I like about small companies is that no idea is too crazy, so when someone asked "damn we need a knob or something that users can turn to give us additional feedback on something..." i said, hey ya I know a knob that could do that. Presto Griffin Powermate. Now it may not be the end all be all but its nice to explore multiple options.

If yer a malt fan beware the Mocha Malt Frapp at Starbucks, its new its mochaie but it ain't no malt. So beware!