Almost all of the film on reels has been digitized and most of that has been converted into DV format, ready for editing. I still have to go through and see if there are any reels that I need to redo for whatever reason (usually because the DV cam is off frame a little). I expect to have the last of the reels digitized today.
Next steps are.
- Find a Super 8 projector that I can use for about 8 50′ reels. If I can’t find one, I might send them out to a service
- Get a slide scanner. They have boxes and boxes of slides but no negatives. Grandpa thought we would transfer them the same as the video. No, I don’t think so
- Sort and do a preliminary edit of all video
- Begin assembly of the DVD, using video and film.
- Once the film and video are done, work on the audio
Looks like this should be done before the end of September, and except for the sample I showed you above, I am more than pleased with the overall results.
Anyone need some film transfers done?
So, my media drive crapped out.
I might have been a little pissy about it. Ok, maybe a lot of pissy about it, but for good reason. That drive contains all of my music, most of teh lads music and photos, a big chunk of my photos and all of my episodes of The West Wing and Top Gear. Important stuff to be sure.
But, I was able to fix said media drive after I was done being all pissy about it. It’s like I forgot I’m an honest to goodness computer guy or something. I also remember that I have a friends Dell laptop here for a reload. So, I put one and one together to get a fixed hard drive.
You see, for those of you that don’t remember, Windows has this super duper handy utility built right into the OS (accessible with a mouse even) called Check Disk. After running the drive through that twice and reorganizing some of the files on the drive, everything was again good to go.
The Mac should have something like that that requires more mouse clicks and less pony tails or neck beards.
In preparation for the big move coming, I’m moving the feeds to feedburner to provide a seemless transition for you.
So, if you would be so kind as to update your feeds I would greatly appreciate it. Here they are.
Work is progressing nicely to this point and it’s looking like I should be able to pull the trigger on the switch before the end of September. Keep checking back for updates.
I’m not having the best summer.
No work to speak of. I’ve had to make due on less than a 1/4 of what I was making before.
House broken into. Costing me over $2k in losses, not to mention the possibility of having my identity completely jacked.
Now, the 500gb external drive containing all of my music, all of my photos and all of my very old backups (docs and whatnot) is toast. Disk utility won’t touch it, firewire or USB, with Leopard running or running off of the DVD. Nada.
Tried Windows too. Nothing.
So, today’s lesson is to backup your backups. If, like me, you have over 200GB of stuff, then it’s time to get a backup drive for the backup drive. Maybe look into getting a Drobo? Something.
You have been warned. Do it now before you too loose 5 years of photos and over $4k in music, ok?
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