Category: Life

I have many reasons to be happy. The EYNTO Show is complete in one form or another. I’m going to a conference tomorrow and Saturday [BSDCan2k5]. I’m appearing on Underfire Radio Saturday. I found out that I got an A- for my GIS class (Geography Information Systems).

Annnd I got a job! Not only that, but a frickin’ dream job! I’ll be a tour guide for a local tour boat company. I learned that today. This day could not be better.

Update: Weeell maybe not so nice: I have a bandwidth cap of 100GB. It sounds like alot, but keep in mind that the show is 220MB. I’ve just contacted GoDaddy: if that cap is exceeded, I will have to pay a hefty amount. $6 per additional Gig. So if I go over by 100GB, I’ll have to pay $600. Despite the fact that they charge $10 for 100GB of bandwidth.

I’m thinking of using a PHP script to maintain the control of where the show is spread in my hands.

I noticed while I was watching the finished and rendered stuff that some chapters were clipped by 3 seconds at the end. Enough to cut off the ends of the last sentences.

Therefore I’m uploading the show now, but will rerender a new one today without this glitch.

Update: The glitch is inherent to Premiere: It simply cuts out the last 2 seconds of audio from every clip. Therefore I re-recorded myself saying those last few words in each chapter. Also made a little change to the credits.

The EYNTO Show is DONE! Rendering now!

Its been 15 straight hours of work today. But worth it.

It ends…

I’ve finished all the Chapters. I’m currently stringing it all together, and will make the ending credits. The rendering alone should take an entire night, so I will try to finish this for tonight so that the WMV file is ready tomorrow. I forsee staying up until 3AM.

The 320×280 WMVs are of a lower quality than the native 640×480 MPG files… Need to find a distribution method for the bigger files, but I can’t possibly afford the insane amount of bandwidth that would require. Torrents is a good idea, but I need many seeders for it to work.

I might distribute the high-quality file to a few people who would volunteer to seed. Mind you there’s also me figuring out how to turn my computer into a Bittorrent tracker (I think I’ve got the hang of it though).

Either way the low quality version should be available via this site tomorrow.

It is currently 11:32AM Wednesday. I’ve just finished re-recording the footage for computer upgrades (the footage I took yesterday was dissapointing; so I decided to start from scratch) and am now in the process of converting all those .mov files to .avi; as the video editing solution I use can’t correctly render the audio of the mov files.

EYNTO is finally coming to an end.