The irony of the whole thing is that I produce video for broadcast all day long in my dayjob, but I have always, always had problems with stupid things like programming a VCR, and I can’t, for the life of me, figure out how to use Windows Movie Maker (What do you mean, you can’t add tracks!?)

I have an old student copy of premiere, but you can’t really capture from a webcam (which, apparently drops frames as a matter of course, and Premiere doesn’t like that). I got the the point where I started digging around in Brad’s old video stuff, and he has this funny little Hi-8 with Svideo, only my Svideo jack is output only! Argh!

…And that’s why there was no comic yesterday!

Tags: comic, computers, journal comic, post-it notes, video

…and thus, I have decorated my desk for the Holidays

Tags: desk, photos, polar bear, tapes, video, wind-up toy

I mentioned in my last post that when I doodle without purpose the drawings don’t come out terribly well. As a result I don’t often save them, but I decided it’d be fun to caputure a session where I did such a thing. So here you go! I acutally kind of like the little fairy guy at the end, and maybe I’ll do something with him.

Tags: doodles, drawing, video

I love Aardman so very very much.

Tags: interesting, video

I make local commercials for a living. You know, those commercials for local businesses which have low production values and just in general, look cheaper than national ads. We try hard to work with what we have, but often what we have is no time and even less budget. That’s when the crap happens. Every now and then we end up with an opportunity to do something cool, and depending on how exploited we’re feeling, we can end up with something to be proud of. I’m not sure this is one of those, it’s a little thrown together and based on something I did in school, but I still think it’s kind of neat.

I’m going to be putting more of my commercials up on YouTube, mostly so my parents can see them. I’ll probably post more of them here, too.

Tags: video