Knights of the Guild Podcast Daily Blog

Because of limitation on the Podbean website I have decided to create a Knights of the Guild Podcast Daily Blog. This new blog will have semi-daily updates on what's going on in the world of Kenny and Jenni and updating you on the progress all our the Guildie goodness.

Knightsoftheguild.podbean.com will still carry our feeds, have direct downloads and show notes but daily info will be on http://knightsoftheguildpodcast.blogspot.com/

So check it out!!!

FINALLY DONE!!!!

Today after work I digitized a few problem tapes and did one more polishing pass. At about midnight I finally finished these Guild BTS DVD Extras. Even though it was a rush I think we came up with some really good pieces and I can't wait to see what the fans think when the DVD comes out.

Of course I have a ton of footage and I will continue to create more BTS pieces for Watchtheguild.com website as well as The Guild's You Tube channel.

I'll keep you posted on when this stuff will be out.

Murphy's Law

Well just before I got into work today I got an email from Producer Kim Evey informing me that the deadline for the DVD stuff (which was suppose to be this coming Tuesday) has been delayed.

LOL.. just my luck, been killing myself for the past three weeks to get this stuff done and on the day that I'm about to finish, after a 40 hour work weekend, they push back the deadline.

Oh well the good thing is that I'm almost done. A few more hours tonight I'll my pieces will be complete.

Digitizing, Digitizing, Digitizing

Today I got up really early and continue to edit my Gulid BTS pieces for the upcoming DVD. At 11am Kim Evey came over and sat with me for four hours and went over each piece until we were happy with the results. Once we were done I exported the pieces and email them to Felicia for final approval. While I waited I started the long process of uprezing the footage.

What I mean by uprezing is this, I have 60 hours of footage and if I digitized this footage 1:1 it would take up a very large amount of drive space, space I don't have so I digitized all the footage at 15:1 so I could get all of it in my system and take up very little drive space. Now that the pieces are done I have go go back through and re-digitize the footage that I am using in each piece.

This process normally has it's issues like timecode not matching so you digitize the wrong clip, or the tape can't find a pre-roll time and has issues digitizing. So I was anticipating problems but I have to say my first piece uprezed with not a single issue... at about 1am when I started my second uprezing I ran into a few problems and by the time I finished at 11am the next day I only had about nine clips total that I'm going to have to find manual and re-digitize and cut in.. so all in all a pretty good uprez session.

Editing All Day

From 8am to 1am I have been editing several of the Behind the Scenes DVD Extra pieces that I am doing for The Guild Second Season DVD. I have a screening with Kim Evey (Producer) Sunday AM so I have to get these done. I think they turned out pretty good. Now I just have to show Kim then Felicia.. I hope they don't have many notes.. can't wait till I get these done.

KOTG Microcast #3 - Quest for the Streamys: The Results

We go back to last Saturday and join our intrepid reporter Penny Jowell as she reports on the Guild cast and crew while they walk the red carpet, watch the Streamys live and head to the after parties.

The Guild won three Streamy Awards

• Best Ensemble Cast
• Best Actress (Felicia Day)
• Best Comedy Web series

Ms. Jowell was joined by Robert Welkner. Robert is one of the hosts of COIN-OP TV LIVE, which is part of TheStream.TV network. Along with his co-host Hailey Bright, It is the second longest running show on the network with one of the largest loyal followings. Highlights from the live show include interviews with famed video game composer Tommy Tallarico, professional gamers Fatal1ty and Stermy, the team behind Screw Attack and Director of Operations for Nexon, Min Kim. COIN-OP TV LIVE airs every Thursday at 8PM PST / 11PM EST on www.TheStream.TV!

http://coin-op.tv/ http://www.thestream.tv/series.php?s=4

Here are some photo’s of our lovely reporter Penny Jowell, yes we know she looks like Jenni Powell but there’s no relations.

Check out more picture and video at Watchtheguild.com

Editing KOTG Microcast #3

I decided to bring all of my recording of Microcast #3 to work with me so I can get a rough cut strung out. There is a lot of editing that needs to be done to this one as it's our live recording from the Streamys. It's going to be a rather longer microcast running about 45 minutes but it should be fun. I hope to finish it tonight and get it posted asap.

No Delay in Delivery

Well I got an email from Kim Evey informing me that they can not push back my delivery day. So my DVD pieces are due by Tuesday April 7th. And I have to say that I'm kind of glad that is the case as I am sooooo tired and really want to be done with these DVD things. Once this is done then I can go back to cutting some more Guild BTS stuff for their you tube channel and show website. Those this will be my last weekend of cutting this stuff.

More Editing

With only a few days left to finish I stayed up till about 1am again working on this third piece for The Guild BTS DVD extra. I cut down some of the stuff, and rearranged other stuff. By the end of the night I think I have a pretty good piece.. now I just have to start cover up shots and of course sent it to Kim and Felicia who will give me some notes.

Emailed Felicia and Kim

Had to email Felicia and Kim today and let them know there was no way I was going to be able to get this final piece done by Friday for the screening. Kim called later in the day and said she would see if we could extent my due dates a little. So will see what happens..

What a Day!!!

Today I did not go into work because I needed to get started on this third BTS Guild piece. I have Felicia and Kim coming over Friday night to view it and I have barely got it started. Well it started off pretty good. I got up at 7am and started to edit, around 10:30 I got an email from Kim asking if my other piece that I had done first was going to be uploaded to microsoft today. I started to panic, as I was told that the three pieces that I am doing would not be due until April 7th and I had planned out everything for the next five days so I could get it all done. Well with this news I had to drop everything and get to finishing this piece for microsoft. It was pretty much done but it did have temp footage in there and I had to uprez the entire piece. Well after seven hour of problems and issues I finally finished the piece and it was ready to be uploaded.

Of course I had no idea it would take another six hours to upload it. For some reason my upload speed on my computer is really slow and though the piece was 1.2 gigs when I first went to upload it directly to the companies website it said it was going to take 200 hours, well that was just crazy so I decided to upload it to my personal ftp site. Well that was going to take three hours so I started the process.. at about 82% it decided to delete the upload so I had to start all over again.

Well I was uploading for a second time I went back to cutting my third piece, the one that I was suppose to be doing all day today. I managed to get a very rough cut put together but by this time it was 1am and I was way to tired to continue. About this time my second upload had worked and my first piece was ready to go.

There is no way I'm going to be ready for Friday.. gonna have to email Felicia and Kim.

Deep Space Nine Action Figures

Today I got my Deep Space Nine Series 2 Action Figures... I had pre-ordered these almost a year ago and they finally arrived. There are four characters, Kira, who looks AWESOME, O'Brien who looks pretty good... it's funny because they even gave him his double chin. Brashir who from a certain angle looks like him but from some angles he doesn't look like the actor at all and the final one Margon who looks spot on and if a very cool figure.

I'm not collecting may action figures these days but Diamond is still producing some very cool Star Trek figures.