A&E Finishing Grant

A huge thanks to those of you have been participating in the workflow discussion from last week - I plan on touching on that subject again soon, including the great approaches and tips people have been suggesting.

This week I thought I'd share some news I got on Friday morning - and wish everyone a happy holidays and an awesome new year!

Stills from Pedal footage I've been importing...

Tonight I took a handful of still-frames from the footage I've been importing the last week - I thought I'd share some of them both here and on flickr. If you click any photo below it will take you a 'set' where you can poke around the large versions (which are only around 1170px 700px, I used QuickLook to take these, so they are just preview quality).

Actually, please do look at the larger versions on flickr, the 420px thumbnails below don't look like much of anything.

These stills are a mix from the Z1u and the FZ1 with the 35HDV kit... I feel especially tired tonight, so I suppose I'll let the images do most of the talking :) As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts.

My Workflow

A few months back, Tiffany (TheFekGeek), suggested I start doing weekly vlog updates on Pedal. This post makes week one, I can't promise they won't be completely pointless from time to time, but I'll try to use them as a way to keep myself on track and focused.

I've been importing footage for the last two days - it's been incredibly exciting for me. I wanted to put my workflow out there, and let people suggest ways to improve it, or even completely change it.

If you want to check out the app' I'm using, it's called Punakea (anyone know how to properly pronounce it?). Again, I'd love to hear your feedback.

Writing Episodes, The Winnies, a Black Sheep Update, and Some Other Random Stuff for Your Enjoyment

I know it's been quiet the last two weeks on the blog, and I apologize for that - in my defense, I did write a very, very long post that is currently saved as a finished draft. There's a few more things I need to do before I feel I can publish it - I know that might not make a lot of sense now... but it will when you're older, "older" as in like a week or two from now (after it's posted).


A few quick updates - I have been writing, writing, writing for Episode 6, it's gone through many different ideas the last two months, and most of them have been 80% crap. But I'm happy with the structure I'm developing now...

I know I'm very behind on when I first planned on posting 6 and 7, but I didn't think I should just post "bleh" for the sake of being on time. Sometimes... I get writer's block.

Amanda and I attended The Winnies recently, here we are with Clintus, Bonny, and Mike Hedge.

And here I am (below) with our award from the super-awesome-amazing Ryanne Edit.

What Amanda and I thought was so perfect about getting our award from Ryanne, of all people, was that Ryanne was *the* video blogger who made me pick up a camera and just start talking to it. She's also the one who pushed me to attend the sessions Steve & Zadi were teaching at the Grove's Apple Store on vlogging. So much of the way Pedal has evolved can be traced back to my early IMs with Ryanne.


I received the best email from Olivier the other day, the Black Sheep have been busy with their own feature film since returning from Pedal. He posted a handful of stills in this cinematography forum, and even a link to some SD rushes that just look... fantastic! The kit that was used for their film, was the exact same kit and camera used during Pedal, pictured below.


Looking at these has made me so anxious and excited to begin importing all the footage from the trip. I love the picture this produces, and am taking their advice on which 35HDV-kit to purchase for the remaining interviews and pick-ups that will need to be shot over the remainder of post.

I just re-skimmed this post and realized it's all over the place, but that's how I feel tonight, so it's fitting.

I was excited to find out that my 1TB Raid Lacie drive (that I mentioned recently) is expected to arrive this Friday! I'm almost to point of being giddy just thinking about logging the footage... speaking of logging footage, does anyone reading have any tips on how to most-effectively log, organize, and file away 140+ hours of footage?