So Much For The Roll!

Well, I managed to blog for two days in a row there and could not manage three. Yesterday was pretty hectic. We ended up wrestling with a gazebo in the back garden and by the time we were finished Lindsay was almost out of hit points and I was totally out of spells. Still it looks pretty nice and will provide some shade in the summer and the nice nets will keep the biting evil out and away from poor Lindsay.

Other than that I had to burn my Digital Video class work to DVD. I figured it would take two. One for the product in AVI format and another for the raw files and Premiere Pro project files I had used but it ended up taking three. I guess I did more work than I thought. Lets hope he never has to make any alterations to the original. I have to say I thought it was pretty interesting when I first started. It is a video on the history of superheroes and how looking at their development could be used as a springboard for class discussions in history or social studies. Now I have finished it I am sick of the sight of it. I had to put it down and stop fiddling with it otherwise I was going to go quite quite mad!

If you would like to share in the madness you can watch it up on my portfolio - History And Superheroes - Let me know what you think!

In addition to that; while Lindsay was constructing a skirt from a fabric called Vertigo, that is extremely well named; I had a little play with Adobe After Effects. I had been putting off playing with it until my videos were finished otherwise it was going to cause me all kinds of issues as I tried to add lovely motion effects to my video footage. My first foray into the world of video special effects was a great tutorial I found online over at VideoCopilot and it was to do a Demon Face Transformation. I needed a victim for my experiments to make the appropriate actions to the camera, and as Lindsay was busy I picked on my poor long suffering mother. I am quite happy with the results as a first attempt to use something and you can watch the final product on my portfolio - Demon Face Transformation - Its pretty scary!

I also had time yesterday to process and upload another session of Pirates of the Spanish Maine to the site and update the Community Podcast. I love the Whartson Hall lot. Everything they do is so bloody funny. They are great folks and the couple of times we have met them they have been brilliant. Just waiting for them to come on out to visit us and then we can play something out here! Pirates of the Spanish Maine is drawing to a close but I have plenty of Whartson Hall stuff left in my bag of tricks and I think we might see Traveller raising its head in a week or so once Pirates is in the bag.

It has decided to rain today (which is always great when I am driving down the highway to class) and it is a bit miserable. Thankfully, as it is my last class before the summer there could be a tornado, ice storm and earthquake all at once and I would still be happy! Wooooo!