The Hells of Homo Horror (in High-Def)
June 10, 2006
Short Shoot Diary II #11: The Hells of Homo Horror High-Def
With the end of the quarter on me (I graduate next Friday) I've been struggling to stay afloat in a seastorm of final projects. The Short Film has been languishing for a few days as I've jumped around completing other stuff due far earlier.
One of the other big problems too is that my precious iMac is just one generation too old to really do HDV and do it well. The G5 chip, sans dedicated video processing circuits, doesn't have the strength to do all the unpacking and re-packing necessary to handle HDV natively. Apparently the new Intel chips do, and even the chips in the new Mac Books do, but these older G5 chips rely heavily on memory and software code to do the job.
I tried a few work arounds, including purchasing memory upgrades, disk scans and finally iLife utilizing iMovie HD. I never got a good enough fix that addressed all the concerns I had. I finally bit the bullet and downconverted the HDV signal to SDV, and imported all of that in to my now (2GB memory tricked out) iMac.
The footage still looks lovely (everyone would have seen it in standard def anyway), with the acting and photography being really, really good. I'm finishing the logging now and hope to get started on the actual editing of the piece next week.
My goal is to put some kind of teaser on here next week. 30 seconds. Quicktime scalable. All of that goodness.
More soon.
Posted by Jody at June 10, 2006 12:17 AM
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If you had told me 20 years ago PC-using Jody Wheeler would be talking about his tricked out Mac I wouldn't have believed you; but you were also a Republican back then. I guess that work I did on Apple Kool-Aid while at the CIA finally paid off.
John "spook" White
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at June 10, 2006 10:24 AM
No, it was the marathon 3 movies in a row at whatever that multiplex was, that allowed you to send those CIA mind waves my way.
Bastard.
And Macs Rock.
13" Mac Book for graduation? I wonder...
Posted by: Jody at June 10, 2006 11:03 AM
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