My cable modem is definitely messed up in some way. I can't make my network work at all when I'm attached to it, but I can get a single machine working — sometimes. Which sort of sucks because I need to be online to register some of my media editing software… The clip below looks really blurry as a WMV file, whereas when I render it as a QT file it's gorgeous and crisp, so it would be nice to have that option…
I'm also going to try and get the “stuttering” problem sorted out on the editing box today (basically my real-time preview monitor isn't working right). If that goes I'll do a bunch more capturing — re-capturing actually, because a lot of what I captured before seems to be incomplete, as if I've deleted large segments (which I may well have quite literally done, not understanding the interface).
[Update: Avid are a pain in the ass it seems. When I bought this system, they officially supported FireWire 800 boards and drives. Now they're saying that unless your motherboard has a segmented bus, they don't support them any more. Nice. So now I may have to go replace my motherboard before I can do proper playback.]
I'm very much enjoying working with this new system. It's been a long time since I've had to really learn a new set of large skills from the ground up, and it's really fun. Plus it feels a little bit more like being an artist, which I prefer to being an engineer (no offense to any engineers that may be reading this).
Other than that I'm waiting to hear back from a killer new project involving ##### ######## and some other very big name “underground” celebrities in something that really could go interesting places. Vague enough for you? I can tell you that there are zombies involved, ninjas, and urban sports… (Totally unrelated to BME though).
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