Blog Rot and the case of the faster CPU

Alright, I think it’s been at least a year since my last post. I never intended to let this blog die, and I actually quite enjoyed writing my thoughts. So what happened?

NAB 08 impressions 2

Further revelations, and I’m reaching into my pocket to see how deep it goes…

NAB – my thoughts

Alright, I figure I might post up what I think now that the *real* show has gotten underway…

NAB so far

Gotta say, the latest camera offerings shown are disappointing me. I have my fingers crossed for Scarlett, the ‘mini-RED’, but I’m beginning to anticipate (dread) the horrible ‘barrel-cam’ form factor.

Two cameras so far, after the jump

Apologies concerning the web distro of Episode 1 2008

The Tasmanian Premier League Football Show Episode 1 2008 is coming, but thanks to my wireless connection suddenly becoming questionable the upload has failed several times now. About to run a long cable, which should fix things up.

Sorry again, when its up, you’ll find it here: www.youtube.com/tasfootball

Football Show Season 08

The first episode of the football show for the 2008 season has been produced, and will be shown on Aurora TV tonight. Expect the first upload of the show tomorrow. I will link to the new account where they will be uploaded tomorrow when the first episode goes live online.

Long time between posts, lots on

This is a short and sweet one (again). I am still working on the second part of my guide, but its a little more complicated than part 1 and I have to put it together in my free time, which isn’t happening a whole bunch lately.

The Tasmanian Premier League Football Show season starts again shortly, and I’ll be making a separate YouTube account exclusively for them to get my account cleaned up a bit. I’ll be sure to mark down the address when its made.

I uploaded another of my films today, one that has been a long time coming. Just a short, made years ago when I was in college. I am pretty proud of it, but I know I can do better. So why aren’t I doing better? Good question.

Despressingly, it looks compressed to doom. Looks like a rerender and a new upload may be in order.

Damnit.

Tas Premier League Football Show now mostly online

Episodes 1 – 9 are now featured on my YouTube account. I am making a playlist with every episode in order, and will complete that tomorrow.

I am currently rendering episodes 10 – 15, and they will be uploaded tomorrow. Look out for 15, it had to be cut into 5 parts for consistency and its sheer length, I believe it went for almost a full half hour.

If you’re interested, check ‘em out!!

Not Part 2 of my GY-HDxxx write-up, but a good shoot-out

Here you will find a great shoot-out between four of the (still current although somewhat updated) popular HD cameras on the market. They test between the Panasonic HVX 200, the Canon XL H1, the JVC GY-HD100, and the Sony HVR-Z1.
Please note that this test is from January 2007 and several of the cameras included have since been modified.

Vision Mixers and Low Budget AV = FAIL

I’ve been on the lookout for a long time for a vision mixer. For a while there, I thought I’d pick up a second hand Panasonic MX 12 cheap, but when I thought about it realistically, what practical purpose did a 2 channel vision mixer really offer?. Clearly a 4 channel was the minimum I should be looking at or else I was going to see my investment cascade into redundancy faster than analogue video when DVD debuted.