Finished KOTG #3

Today I finished editing Knights of the Guild Podcast #3. Since I did most of the work the past few days it was pretty easy to finish. I was laughing out loud several times and I think this is my favorite we have done so far. I'm now sending to Jenni for her approval but it's 99% done. I'll do a little more polishing and it will be posted on April 15th.

Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead

Today Harry and I watched the second of four Doctor Who TV specials for 2009/2010. This one was titled Planet of the Dead. It's been a while since we saw any new Who and it was nice jumping back in with our favorite Doctor. It was really good, interesting story, and I love that everyone survived, well except the bus driver and the two fly aliens. I was expecting each person to get picked off one at a time like the Xmas special.. so that was fun and I really liked Michele Ryan as a companion. Very much The Doctors equal, too bad she's not sticking around. Loved the warning, he will knock four times.. I wonder who she is talking about .. the Master?? And the preview for The Waters of Mars special was super creepy.. can't wait.

House Hunting

Today Harry and I went out to do a little house hunting. We decided to look in Burbank as this city is top on our list of own a home in. We drove around for about three hours going up and down streets but didn't really make any progress. Maybe because it was Easter weekend but there were no open houses and we pretty much just got to see different neighborhoods and styles of homes. We really do need to get a Realtor since they do most of the leg work and it's just your job to go look at the house. So next week we look for a Realtor. We had a few friends give us some names but before we contact one I want to see about getting pre-approved for a mortgage loan. I'll keep you posted.

Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword

Today Harry and I watched a new Fantasy/Comedy TV series called Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword. They say it's a cross between Legend of the Seeker and Spaceballs and they were not wrong. It was stupid, cheesy and way too funny. Both Harry and I laughed out loud. It airs on Thursday nights at Comedy Central.. if you like slapstick kind of comedy set in the world of Fantasy then you'll love this.. can't wait to see the next episode. You can find out more here.

More Podcast Editing

Today I finished rough editing Knights of the Guild #3. It's great to be able to do this at work during lunch and downtime. I have so much podcast editing to do these days it's nice to use every available free time I have to take care of it. So The Ready Room is almost complete and KOTG #3 is rough cut.. now I just have to import it into Avid and finish it up.. I think I'll be doing that tomorrow.

TV Time

Today I tried to stay off the computer when I got home from work and catch up on some TV. We have about 20 hours of Lost, Heroes, Legend of the Seeker and Dollhouse to catch up. Still a lot of TV behind but we started to make a dent.. yay!!!

Podcast Editing

I downloaded Audacity at work because during my slow times I wanted to be able to rough edit The Ready Room podcast and Knights of the Guild. Today I got a good chunk of KOTG #3 rough edited. I hope to finish it up tomorrow during my non-busy time.

We're Buying a House

While at work today Harry IM'd me and said, "We need to talk". My first thought of uh oh, what's wrong. But when I got home he told me that his family (Mom and Dad) liquidated their assets and have given each of their kids their inheritance early.

So Harry has a rather nice amount of Euros in the bank. He suggested that we use some of this money to put a downpayment on a house. I could not believe it. I had come to the conclusion that we would never own a house since it takes two incomes and with Harry's special circumstances we would never be able to afford a downpayment... well thanks to Harry's loving parents we can.

So the first night in three weeks that I thought I would be going to bed early because I didn't have to edit anything I spent with Harry looking at houses till the wee hours in the morning.

So we are official looking for a house to buy, with low rates and falling house prices I'm hoping we can get a good deal. Going to starting looking this Saturday in the Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena area... wish us luck..

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.