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.

Internet Issues Resolved??

Today the Time Warner tech guy came over. I of course was at work but Harry was there. The tech guy did his thing but after he was finished he informed Harry that he couldn't find the problem. Regardless of him finding the problem whatever they did worked and our internet is free flowing.. Download speed has tripled and our upload speed, though slower then Nov., has improved to reasonable speed. So we're not sure if it's fixed or not but Harry is happy that it's working... so I guess this story is to be continued...

Working on Notes

Last night I got notes from Kim and Felicia on two of my Guild BTS DVD Extra piece. So this morning before work I took an hour to work on some of them. One piece was on it's 8th pass so the note were very minor and took no time at all to do. The second piece was on it's 3rd pass so there were a few more notes but I did manage to get them all done before I needed to get to work. Tonight I plan on outputting the two completed pieces and start working on the third and final piece. Of course this is the plan but my plans normally don't work out... but will see.

TV Night

Tonight I took a break from The Guild BTS to try and watch a bit of TV that is starting to fill up on DVR. I'm about three episodes behind on Heroes, Lost, Legend of the Seeker and a few episodes down on Dollhouse, Amazing Race and Extreme Home Makeover. So tonight I was determined to watch a few of those shows to clear some room on my DVR for this weeks TV that I will be missing. We managed to watch a few things but we still have a ton to watch.. one of these days I'll get caught up.

Internet Issues Continue

I got an email from Time Warner saying something like the problem with the slow internet can't be fixed on their end that they have to send a technician to come out to the house to fix it.. so I called this morning and after several different people and about a half hour on the phone I made an appointment for a tech person to come out tomorrow from 10am to 12pm to fix the issue.. now I just have to wait.

More Editing

Since my of my Saturday was busy with Harry's BBQ and then Streamy Awards I didn't get much done in Editing of The Guild BTS DVD extras. So I knew today I need to kick it up. I have finished one piece and was about halfway done with a second. I really wanted to finish the second and at least get halfway done with the third. But the second piece took a little longer then planned. I had gotten up at 8am and only took two breaks (lunch and dinner) and didn't get done until around 11pm. After that I was so tired and my hands and fingers were killing me. I had been in front of that computer for 15 hours. But I finally got a cut done and sent it off to Felicia and Kim for notes.

I then started on my third piece. I spent the next two and a half hours pulling interview bites. It was now 1:30am and I was too tired to continue so I called it a night. All the prep work is done for the third piece and know all I have to do is cut it together and find cover shots. I'll have to work on it at night when I get off work but I hope to have it done by Thursday night.

Then the weekend Felicia will be coming over to my place to do one final pass on the three piece, we will lock them and then I can uprez and do final outputs to send to Kim on Monday and this part of the Guild craziness will be over and I won't lie.. I am looking so forward to that.

TNG on Family Guy

I stopped for a half hour to watch this very special Family Guy which reunited the original cast of Star Trek The Next Generation.

Some of my friends were disappointed with this as they have be heavily promoting this with clips of the TNG stuff. But the TNG/Stewie storyline was a very minor B story. And the Meg/Brian Religion story was the A story. But both Harry and I laughed out load at all the TNG pieces and loved every minute of it. Of course it would have been great if the episode revolved around the TNG story but what they did give us was hilarious.