Editing Meteors

Written: November 18, 2002
Last Updated: November 19, 2002

Slice, ripple, insert, transition, print, ship.

Eric and I spent the afternoon editing our footage from Vienna's performance at the San Francisco Public Library earlier this month. With Jim's massaged audio tracks, we sliced, rippled, and edited our way through 6 of Vienna's 14 songs from the performance. Learning the nuances of Final Cut Pro has been slow, but I'm making good progress. One thing will remain constant, though; editing is involved and time-consuming!

In other news, I've begun converting the pages of this web site into XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant pages. Like FCP, it's a slow process, but the workflow is certainly much simpler and more straightforward. Eventually, I'd like to have the site delivering XHTML 1.x compliant pages, but for now the transitional documents will work quite nicely.

Eric videotaping Vienna

Transition here

Working

1:00 am. I am going to check out the Leonids later tonight. In the darkness that is my backyard in Cupertino, I hope to spy some of them to share on this web site.

3:17 am. Well, though I certainly saw a number of shooting stars, I wasn't able to capture many of them with my digital camera. One of them silently exploded into a green ball of light (see last image).

Roof stars

DirectTV scans for meteors

Exploding meteor

Enter The Photo Gallery

Reader Comments

I like how the last two editing images were candid shots. you know, we didn't, like... set them up or anything. I like that I wasn't just pointing at the screen because it would make me look like I was doing something useful.

i had a red bull on the way back from Mt. Tam, and I'm WIDE AWAKE at 5:04am.

this blows.

-- posted by echeng @ Tuesday, November 19 2002, 8:05 am EST

What the hell are you guys doing in that first photo? :^)

(Or what was *I* doing on-screen? Maybe I don't want to know...)

--posted by Vienna @ Tuesday, November 19 2002, 18:00 pm EST

Think MST3K or VH-1 Pop Up Video :)

--posted by Adam @ Tuesday, November 19 2002, 18:26 pm EST

Nice. The I didn't even think of that... I suppose I could have set up the camera outside and tried to catch some of the storm... Still even the blurry ones looked cool! As for the low battery thing? You're not alone... And now where the hell did I put my spare...

--posted by MichaelE @ Wednesday, November 20 2002, 12:22 pm EST