Archive for the ‘meaningful labor’ Category
There is one thing that would put me off the notion of working semi-professionally in the video field. That thing is Rendering. Rendering is when you take some source videos, audio and whatever processing you wish to apply to them and prepare an exportable video format (putting many into one).
Just like when Jessica was learning the song.. every time she asked “what chord comes after ‘angels’?” the answer is ‘C.’ Every time.
When something goes wrong with a video project, what is the problem? Rendering. RENDERING.
The problem is not just waiting for the render to take place, that has become a non-issue in the last year or so, I’m used to it. But what really bugs is when there are two folders
TODO LIST:
- Have only one render folder selected for A and V
- If you have any problems go into the “/[Audio ]Render files/Project Name” folder and trash it all (clear trash)
- And force re-render after re-starting Final Cut.
- THEN re-encode the DVD
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And on another note, WHY does the FOX tv channel always, perputally broadcast distorted audio? I was channel flicking a few nights ago and had to turn it off it was annoying me so much (so unlike me), and in any case it was pre-season NFLstuff. Not that interesting, lots of football-nerd talk (c.f. above).
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PS I think this one qualifies for RANT status, though it should probably be filed under the SCHOOLBOY ERROR column as well.
Posted in America 2008, apple, blog, brands, meaningful labor, rant |
Check out http://www.healingtheland.net/ for information about the mission going on in Newtownabbey this week starting Sunday evening and continuing til Wednesday. (Follows in Magherafelt).
There’s two videos on the right hand side of that page which I put together for those in charge. Hope they go well!
Posted in meaningful labor |
The to do list can now be tackled, this blog can be styled once again and working out what’s going to occupy my time come September is back on the agenda.
For me it’s now summer time and today’s weather approves that, it’s the most sun I’ve seen since last summer in the States!! Plenty of time to chill out, soak up some heat, read some bits of paper and write a 20 point to do list and four pages of notes on the matter. Tonight I’m meeting a client to discuss some pre-America work, which I’ll of course mention when it’s done.
Realiging face-lifts are due and some updating, building a fine web design company and indeed a certain fine Northern Irish Event Management and Audio Visual Solutions company.
Anyway, eating time, hoping to make a decent blog diary this summer in the states, where I intend to have time to *think*.
Four weeks to go!
Posted in America 2008, blog, hope for the future, meaningful labor |
The reason I always get initialized constant errors occurring in Ruby is accidentally naming models the plural form of the database table name and not letting Rails automatically create the pluralisations.
script/generate scaffold contact_skill contact_id:integer skill_id:integer description:string
not
script/generate scaffold contact_skills ...
(This reason is one I constantly forget, and Google never helps me. Now I will not forget)
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edit: I’ve had a LOAD of google hits from this search query in the last few days, if this helps you or doesn’t please leave a comment to make this article more complete.
Tags: rails, ruby, script generate, uninitialized constants
Posted in learning, meaningful labor, rails |
My buddies Pete and Andy and their bands will be playing a gig in aid of the COI centre’s mission team to Brazil this summer. It’s being held in the Oasis Café on Elmwood Avenue, Belfast (behind where I used to live) on Monday 21st April at 9 PM (After CU).
The music’ll be a mix of acoustic styling and profiling (from Nathan Jess), rock covers and original songs by Pete and Paul (formerly of Midnight Noise Conspiracy) and headlining is Andy Good’s band “Maguire and I” who have recently cut a demo which will be handed out free to the first [arbitrary number of] people through the door. You can grab some mp3s of the demo from Lurgan Parish Youth’s site (click on the Amplify logo)
Facebook Group is here. And here’s a map to the Oasis.
Hope to see you there (I’m doing sound.) Dave.
Tags: 2008, andy good, brasil, brazil, maguire and i, oasis, pete huey
Posted in blog, meaningful labor, reciprocal affection |
Giants play Hull Stingrays (where do they get these names?) tonight and Coventry on Saturday on what could just be the single most important game in the second half of the season. Giants will go top by 1 point with a win tonight, but that will create a four game gap between them and Coventry, so Saturday’s match is a four-pointer to claw back points and games from the Chav/Blaze.
Many thanks to Paul at Through the Plexi / Breakthrough for their coverage of our webcasts, check out the hockey blog.
Detail to be found here: http://www.belfastgiants.com/webcast.aspx
Off to the O.
Blogged with Flock
Tags: giants, stingrays, blaze, belfast, hull, coventry, eihl, elite league, ice hockey, uk
Posted in giants, meaningful labor |
Belfast Giants take on the Basingstoke Bison at the Odyssey arena this Thursday night as the mid-table battle in the Elite League starts to get very interesting. After our biggest web cast viewing yet on Saturday against the Panthers we’re hoping to maintain and increase the number of viewers to help keep the whole operation going.
I quite fancy getting a mailing list up and going so people know exactly which matches are coming up (and which are being covered for sure) as there seems to be quite a growing interest in live match night footage primarily from away fans (which is our target audience, don’t worry Todd) and we aim to increase our subscribers from far away places, as there seems to be an interest in British hockey and in particular in the Giants from North America. That is at least where two of the owners of the Giants live!
As for this week’s web cast: The usual line up: Nigel Ringland (play-by-play) and Wayne Hardman (colour-commentary) will talk you through the game with full audio commentary and _at least_ video highlights in the first two periods and then high quality (the UTV guys are impressed!) video coverage of the third period and any overtime or shoot-outs that may occur. Recent feedback has been awesome and we’re really pleased things seem to be going well.
To connect to the webcast (please don’t try doing this until Thursday about 6.45 ready for the 7 PM faceoff – actually it may be 7.30 so check the giants website before doing that) go to http://www.belfastgiants.com/webcast.aspx and check out Octoshape – download the plugin and ensure your Windows Media installation is up to date (a quick restart wouldn’t go down too badly either – just to be sure) then proceed to the pay-site, share the love with your £3.30 (consensus is that this is a fair price for what you get)
Also the game on the 10th of January against Newcastle Vipers will be shown, but more of that in due course.
Oh, and I want to get one of these.
Live video is produced by Hidavid Ltd, which is what Ronan does.
Tags: basingstoke, belfast, bison, giants, hidavid ltd, live, newcastle vipers, ronan smith, video, webcast
Posted in giants, meaningful labor |
Have put a business card up at box42av.com for Barney; that’s his name of choice for the AV shows that go on every now and then. A proper promotional site will follow in due course.
This lovely plasma and its twin is going to be going with us to the Culloden for the UTV BusinessEye awards, am running the show with 2 cameras, vision mix, graphics input from a graphics person, two projectors, four plasmas, and the house wall plasmas. Long day ahead tomorrow, and I now have a BT Openzone code 
Tags: barney, box42av.com, businesseye, culloden hotel
Posted in meaningful labor |
