{"id":1087,"date":"2008-12-03T03:36:39","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T08:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2008-12-03T03:36:39","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T08:36:39","slug":"my-assistant-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2008\/12\/03\/my-assistant-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"My assistant editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/stills\/hitchhikers\/movie--yarn-barf.jpg\" alt=\"BRRRRRRFFFFFF\" class=alignright \/>So I had to rebuild some of PDF Level 2 tonight when I discovered that Evan had apparently done some&#8230;ah&#8230;work on it.  Note to son of mine: if you&#8217;re angling for an &#8220;assistant editor&#8221; credit, you actually have to leave intact  some of what was originally there.  :shocked:  No sweat, though, because this one&#8217;s almost a breeze to put together compared to the first one, at least where compositing and other things come in.  Part of the whole reason to have an Avid at home, whether I&#8217;m still &#8220;in the biz&#8221; or not, is to keep discovering new tricks and, yes, new workarounds.  Knowing how\/why the machine does some of the things it does helps me find ways of tricking it into doing certain things for me, perhaps more efficiently than I&#8217;d done them before, and occasionally allowing me to do stuff that I simply hadn&#8217;t worked out how to do before now.  It keeps me in the loop.  Or it keeps me loopy.  Not sure which, really.  Suffice to say, even Evan deleting a couple of layers of effects\/text\/compositing wasn&#8217;t a disaster &#8211; it was a head-scratch and 15 minutes of rebuilding what had been there before.  No sweat.  I really wish I&#8217;d known some of these tricks when I was working at the station, but hey, no biggie.  I still like what I&#8217;m doing now better.<\/p>\n<p>CGE DVD news: pre-orders begin very soon.  There have been just a few last-minute course-corrections on the homestretch, mainly of the &#8220;how are we gonna do this?&#8221; variety, but be looking very soon for a pre-order page with packaging shots, maybe a video preview or two, and other assorted goodness.  The delivery date has slipped to right after the new year, but I think the results are worth the wait.<\/p>\n<p>If all goes well, I&#8217;m hoping to record all of my intros and voice bits for the year-end podcast thingie tomorrow morning; I&#8217;ve got all the stuff written, now I just hope my sinuses clear up and my voice doesn&#8217;t sound like chicken fried crap.  Or doesn&#8217;t sound more like it than usual.  I&#8217;ve had a nasty bug since Sunday morning, but it&#8217;s been a stomach bug that&#8217;s had me stranded in the bathroom a <em>lot<\/em> (which is, I&#8217;m sure, more than you ever wanted to know); now I&#8217;m trying hard not to catch what Evan and his mom are in the process of getting over.<\/p>\n<p>Under 24 hours to go on the Torchwood figure auctions; links if you wanna see &#8217;em: <a href=\"https:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&#038;ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&#038;item=300277009456\">Captain Jack<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&#038;ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&#038;item=300277009937\">Weevil<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&#038;ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&#038;item=300277010763\">Cyberwoman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, if you&#8217;re aquainted with the apparently-un-chase-away-able phenomenon known as RugalSizzler on Digital Press and other forums, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/sizzdom\">you need Sizz-wear<\/a>.  Trust me on this one.  (If you have no idea what it&#8217;s about&#8230;stay away!  You need your brain cells intact.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I had to rebuild some of PDF Level 2 tonight when I discovered that Evan had apparently done some&#8230;ah&#8230;work on it. Note to son of mine: if you&#8217;re angling for an &#8220;assistant editor&#8221; credit, you actually have to leave intact some of what was originally there. :shocked: No sweat, though, because this one&#8217;s almost a breeze to put together compared to the first one, at least where compositing and other things come in. Part of the whole reason to have an Avid at home, whether I&#8217;m still &#8220;in the biz&#8221; or not, is to keep discovering new tricks and, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hizzouse","category-toiling-in-the-pixel-mines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}