4 April 2007
Vidcast? What vidcast?
So there are a couple reasons why it has been so long since we’ve posted an episode of our vidcast. First off, my cameraman moved to Sweden at the end of last summer. Despite our lax filming schedule, when Jimmy & I were ready to shoot, we would keep each other motivated to get the episodes done.
A few months after Jimmy moved, I became inspired and finally filmed an episode in December. However, soon afterwards my main hard-drive nearly died. Combine that with being crazy busy at work, and you get a slow reemergence into the land of the technically living.
Since Jimmy’s camera also moved to Sweden, the upcoming episode was filmed using my camera, so—sorry—but there will be no HD version available this time. Also, we’re still trying to work out the details of our cross-continent video editing. When he would edit, Jimmy would use Final Cut Pro with the intro & credits created in Motion. Not wanting to send several GB of raw video across the Atlantic, it was up to me to edit this episode. However, I only have iMovie into which I imported the video and inserted Quicktime files of the intro & credits Jimmy had sent me, followed by some back & forth between us nitpicking over details before exporting. Doing something relatively simple is made much more complex when you’re 6 hours and 4,500 miles apart.
I am only boring you with all these particulars so that you can understand we are still working out the kinks of a dual-continent vidcast team. Feel free to with any suggestions you have; we are always open to feedback.