Video, a few days too late.
Oct. 14th, 2008 09:28![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mapsedgeThe lady for whom I was editing the video died yesterday morning. The push is on to complete the editing in time for the visitation/memorial service Friday and Saturday. To allow for color correction/final rendering/DVD authoring and burning, that means the bulk of the editing work has to be done by Wednesday night.
The editing is the easy part, actually. It's the rendering that takes up the time. I figured it up: I can motion correct/edit a scene in about an hour: just over half that time is spent rendering1. I have never wanted a server farm so badly in my life. If I knew how to split the processor time between more than one computer I'd fire up every box and laptop I have. May have to do some research on that today.
It's all work that I have to do at home. Premiere won't open over a Terminal Services session, so I'll be working from home tomorrow as well as my usual day, Thursday. While one computer is busy rendering, I'll do the work from my day job on another. I know that I spend a lot of LJ time bitching about my partners, but I'm grateful that I have the sort of job and partners that are flexible enough to allow me that freedom.
In other news, it finally feels like Autumn. I needed a day of cold rain to put me in the right mindset.
1 Rendering is the process of taking edited or corrected video and creating a new video file from it. The more corrections that are made, the longer it takes to render. When motion tracking, for instance, there is a correction of at least two parameters (position, rotation) for every frame of video.
The editing is the easy part, actually. It's the rendering that takes up the time. I figured it up: I can motion correct/edit a scene in about an hour: just over half that time is spent rendering1. I have never wanted a server farm so badly in my life. If I knew how to split the processor time between more than one computer I'd fire up every box and laptop I have. May have to do some research on that today.
It's all work that I have to do at home. Premiere won't open over a Terminal Services session, so I'll be working from home tomorrow as well as my usual day, Thursday. While one computer is busy rendering, I'll do the work from my day job on another. I know that I spend a lot of LJ time bitching about my partners, but I'm grateful that I have the sort of job and partners that are flexible enough to allow me that freedom.
In other news, it finally feels like Autumn. I needed a day of cold rain to put me in the right mindset.
1 Rendering is the process of taking edited or corrected video and creating a new video file from it. The more corrections that are made, the longer it takes to render. When motion tracking, for instance, there is a correction of at least two parameters (position, rotation) for every frame of video.