Speaking of sharing, Marquat has uploaded some super-sweet FX Chain presets to the VASST site.
Me? I'm trying to finish up the Vegas 6 book.

You need any help proof-reading it?
;-)

Mario

Don't forget that Sunday is Mothers' Day. :)

My niece's birthday.
Gonna bring her those "Winnie the Pooh" gifts .

Nice, huh ?

And Mother's Day, of course... but no "Winnie" stuff then ...

¦ D

Soccer Sat morning, Mom's day on Sunday.

In between (Fri night, SAt night) , trying to get my PC to recognize my two external Firewire Hard drives AND my DV cam at the same time. GRRR......

I think I'll start another thread on this problem

Phil

Looks like we will have some nice weather here in Madison this weekend so.... I thinks I will go shot some video of the capital.
That's if I don't get sucked into State Steet and the campus.

Have fun all.

Terry


P.S. I like the idea of this thread every week.

Getting the ball rolling on my latest bizarro experimental film project---scheduling, crew and co-conspirators, etc.

Preparing for and enjoying Mother's Day with my very elderly and frail mom. Most of my family will be there and we're especially close for this one.

Also, finishing up a wedding video that's been sitting for 2 weeks.

Finalizing a script for a short documentary for the Miami Performing Arts Center. Once that's done, we start on a rough cut.

Actually my major (computer) project for this weekend is restoring all my software. I did an upgrade to a 2.66GHz processor/motherboard and Windows simply refused to boot. So i went back to the old motherboard and it refused to boot on that one as well. Turns out the boot drive was going bad and all the futzing apparently pushed it over the edge. Fortunately i had just picked up a new hard drive too (for no particular reason other than to have a spare on hand). I decided this was a good time to "clean house" and get rid of all the old junk i don't want anymore.

Let's see if i can reinstall and reregister 15 Sony applications in an hour. ;)

Actually, i already did Vegas 6 and did a render test on a small sample project. All parameters being equal except going from 866MHz to 2.66GHz, the rendering time dropped from 305 seconds to 115 seconds. I'm happy.

Tomorrow night several of my family members, including my mom, are performing in a small acoustic concert in the community center across the street from my house. Sounds like a good audio/video project for testing out the new hardware. I'll post the result soon.

Going to see Mommy. Probably cook out. See my nieces. Then next week. It's fast Friday baby. Let the real fun begin.

sn

Well... now that I have fixed my main editing computer after a self-inflicted "let's fry my CPU" incident(*)... I can now get on with some serious editing.....

I captured 13 hours of a Microsoft technical seminar on Tuesday using 5 cameras... 2 of the cameras captured live to hard disk... and the tapes from the other 3 cameras I have just about finished capturing..... I had in total 36 tapes from the event.

The plan is to produce web and DVD versions of the presentations that Microsoft will provide to clients. What a lot of work to do!

Of course I won't be doing all of this over the weekend.. it'll take me a while longer than that.

And... then there is Mothers day...as our youngest Son is off to college in August... this mothers day has some additional significance for all of us.

*I fried my 3.06Ghz CPU when I installed an additional 1GB of RAM on my motherboard. The pressure I used to insert the chips must have disslogged the CPU or something as my ASUS board loudly announced through the speakers "CPU Failed System Test" when I re-booted. No amount of tinkering with the cpu could bring it back. I purchased a replacement 3.2Ghz CPU... and now everything is sweet again... although the cost of my 1GB RAM upgrade was about $340 instead of the $90 it should have been. Oh well... I won't make that mistake again!!

Cleaning up my edit area - finished two big projects this week and it needs reorganization and arrangement.

Then its off for a drivers ed ride with daughter. She has not yet tried country highway driving and we are going to give it a shot. Hopefully the weather will cooperate and we can take the convertible.

Gonna take the new Z1 out for HD stock shots and learning curve stuff here in the Rockies. Looking into a new editing station to marry it up with and start down the long road to HD.

Tell all my friends it's my Harley Davidson (since that seems all the rage hereabouts).

Darryl

Shooting (and hopefully editing) a black and white remake of "The Blob," directed by my four-year-old son. Godzilla shows up at the end, too.

I'm actually dismanteling my studio - It is being converted into a Granny flat!. Then I'm of to film the Elderflowers for a short on country wine making - a project inspired by Grazie talk of Broom I think.

I shot a Mixed Martial Arts fight last weekend (16 fights). I have most of it edited now. I am going to Ohio to judge a fight on Saturday and my girlfriend is going to wrap up the editing while I am gone. I hope to author it on Sunday and release it on Monday.

Mostly transferring audio from DAT and R2R and then editing the stuff. Pretty ho hum really but it pays the bills.

Teaching my daughter ( a top edtior at Fox News - where they edit on the AVID Adrenaline) - how to edit using Vegas (my favorite).

I figure 20 minutes intro - two hours intensive - send her out to edit.

She's working on a "home built" TV show pilot, and can't afford the $40 to $60 grand necessary to build the edit system she's used to.

Got Spot's Vegas books and DV's standing by to take home for review.

Mother's day, teaching video techniques to one of my kids, editing on a weekend without guilt or deadlines... what could be better?

Not one of you mentioned:

Making a photo/video/film montage of siblings growing up set to a tear-jerking self-composed piano piece all for precious Mum on her special day...

Who's the greatest son? Come on, say it......g-o-s-h-e-p! :)