Tuesday, January 26, 2010

L'Elephant


XBMC is an open-source, multi-platform, multi-media playback uh... software... thingy...

Stu on flattening a 5D camera. I don't know why he makes such a big deal about it, I just run it over with my car. All of this leads up to Stu's post about color-correcting on one of these cameras. We have a slightly harder time because we have a GH1 and the compression is slightly more "smashy" with the GH1, but at least our images are in focus. Ahem.

But more importantly: Neat Video makes a video noise reduction plugin. It's a hundred bucks and I think you need a separate license for After Effects and for Final Cut. Normally we've been using Too Much Too Soon plugins because, well, they're free. Actually, I think I donated $20 for them. Anyway...

Who's supposed to be working on a screenplay? Me? Oh, why? Does it look like I'm avoiding working on a screenplay? Dude, I don't avoid working on dialog editing in post-production the way I avoid working on a screenplay. Writing (and reading) screenplays is seriously my least favorite part of the entire enterprise. That and not getting sales. OK, not getting sales is my least favorite part. Then reading screenplays. Then writing them. I don't mind writing on my blog though. Nope. I can do that all day long. Just watch. See? I'm still writing. I can keep going too because I don't have to worry about how this affects my third act. Because there is no third act. See? I can stop anytime I want.

2 comments:

Kangas said...

I just discovered the most odd thing in the world. I'm in the middle of working on about 10 scripts(have been working on them off and on for the past 5 years).

And I just discovered that on four of them I stopped each on page 38. No idea why. Clearly I have some mental block that occurs right there. Freaky!

Yes, I should be writing also. But I am hardcore procrastinating. I'm not even writing blogs, I'm just freakin' READING them! That's bad...

Andrew Bellware said...

Page 38 -- that's right in the middle of the "Fun and Games" section of the picture. Hmm...

I wish my landlord understood that I just don't FEEL like writing so my rent... er... next year... is gonna be just a wee bit late.