Finished first rough edit mix of Farewell drifters.

Just the first three cameras, no handheld yet.

Will be doing fine adjustments next.

I ran into a slight problem, a real annoyance, and that is due to my rushing out to Cornerstone and not having enough equipment. I didn't have a Wind microphone cover for my digital recorder. Forgot to purchase one before the event and didn't fabricate up something on side.

Didn't notice any wind during the event and hoped that the microphones would not catch any. But for two or three of the first songs of the Farewell drifters I can hear the wind noise being added. Obviously there was a breeze of some sort and the Tascam dr40 picked it up.

I tried some digital eq inside media 100 to cut it down, but no settings would get rid of it. Will probably have to leave it in.

(I'll have to remember that for the next Cornerstone. . . Just dreaming for a moment.)





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Didn't do much edting today. Have about 25% of the video edit completed

Today I was fairly tired from a lot of Saturday observing. I was so tired, I didn't realize it was Sunday. I ended up wasting most of the day relaxing and recovering from the observing fatigue. I ate a couple of meals and napped a bit as well as ran some errnads. Decided to take a few photos and toy with them of a sunset in Belleville Michigan. I also tweaked a few photos mostly on the iPad and one photo of Jupiter in Photoshop today.

More info on my other blog about Astronomy. . .

Mailed off the Trace Bundy DVD.

Time to do some editing today. I've been doing so much astronomy lately I feel like a "poor weather editor" . . . Seems like I edit when it's cloudy outside.

Farewell drifters video editing to be resumed tonight.


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I've been so busy observing at the observatory it's delayed my video edit project

Have the Trace Bundy DVD ready to ship, but I need to get digital assets together, meaning source video clips to include on separate media.

I've been opening up the observatory so much lately and doing star gazing so much, it's slowed down the process of editing.

For three days I observed and opened up the observatory. Last night I had it open from 3 to 6am to look at Jupiter and other objects, but mostly Jupiter and the Orion nebula. Orion rises early in the morning before the sunrise at this time of year. The nebula looked awesome early this morning. I felt like I could see faint color aspects in the gas cloud, but this after photographing it. It's difficult to say if my old eyes were really picking up color in the 14 inch telescope. I was looking at low power with the field reducer in. A c14 at f7 with low power would provide a very bright image, so hints of color may have been showing up with averted vision, but it also seemed to suggest faint color aspects with direct vision. I kind of wish I had a large dob with more light gathering power, something like a Newtonian with a 20 inch mirror to see if I could pick up direct color at 5am this morning.

I slept for a short time this morning and went to Hfcc fir "welcome back days" only to discover they may have been rescheduled. So I woke up early for no apparent reason. Ate lunch, chatted with a friend in the club then went back home to get another nap.

Here is a quick photo of the core of m42, the Orion nebula that I took through the c14 at f10 using a canon Eos t1i.

This was a fairly short exposure, perhaps 15 seconds at iso 3200. I don't recall the exact exposure length but I can look it up if someone wants to know.



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May redo the Trace Bundy DVD after reviewing it.

It looks like I forgot the title subtitle heading at the beginning of the video.

I'll review the DVD a little more to see if there are any other obvious changes that could be made.

Might delay the finished DVD being sent for a few days.





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Ouch media 100 crashed during export.

I think it ran out of disk memory.

I didn't have enough free space on the internal drive. That's my guess.

Have to start the export process over again.

I'm clearing up 28 gigs of free space on the internal to start over. This will make the export delayed by another day.

I'm using very high quality exports so it takes about a day for the export.


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Closer to finishing Trace Bundy video.

I'm exporting the QuickTime master file.

Next after reviewing it I'll import it then create the DVD and mail it off to Trace. Trace Bundy will be playing in Michigan near the end of the year. I hope to catch that show which will be at Trinity house, God willing.

Had a lot of delays, but not due to the video editing process. Most of them was due to other projects, hobbies, etc.

Will move on to the next artist likely one of the bands that wrote me an email.




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