Well, I didn't go swimming again, but I ended up playing with Sony Vegas. And I found the image stabilizer, which, for lack of a better vocabulary, is just incredible. I put in some shaky Leela clips and stabilized them, and damn if they don't look like I had a Steadicam. I can see myself using this feature a lot in the future.
Let's hope the rest of the day has some equally nice revelations.
Ah morning. A bit late, actually--9:20--to get to the pool before classes start. Bianca H at the forum did a lovely altering of Leela's photo, and I started a project to turn it into a video. Pretty frustrating trying to get audio off a DVD (in this case, The War of the Worlds), I finally plugged the DVD player's headphone jack into the Boss BR-6. Then tried to cut just the audio I wanted, without dialog, etc...another bit of frustration.
Not too encouraged by the day's direction, I went swimming around 12:30. It felt great. So great, in fact, that I ended up doing 50 laps in one session. Something I generally don't do.
Came back and finished up the video, feeling better about it. Still not happy with Sony's way of dealing with animated still images, which seems to be, "We don't care. Slide them around like puzzle blocks until you get what you like. We'll be over here reading magazines." Created the "heat ray" effects, put it all together, posted it to YouTube. Not too bad an experience for something done in a single day.
Watched another Netflix DVD, "Mr Show Season 3" which was consistently funny. Later, I was moved to paint and created a great way out for the fifth panel of Paint Blog 2. Will let that set, and see if I can fix Night Surgeon.
And then there's tomorrow.
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