Weekend Worker

[kevin_standlee]

Half of my day was spent working on Day Jobbe, as there was work on the custom database that I wrote and manage for my team at work that was misbehaving and that I needed to have working by the time things start tomorrow morning or we'll all be in the soup. I haven't gotten all of the bugs out of it yet, but after four hours (which I did log, although I'll probably not be able to recover them this coming week) I did get it so that it will work tomorrow morning.

So the second half of my day was also spent over a computer, albeit my personal machine, editing an episode of Railway Legends, Myths, and Stories. I don't know how those other YouTubers manage to put out all of these videos multiple times a week, although I guess for most of those who I follow, it's actually their full-time job rather than just a hobby like it is for me. I'm managing about one minute of finished video per one hour of editing time, including making photos fit into the narrative. It's interesting to learn, but it's tiring.

The first day of spring? Well, it's sunny, but cold, and I had the fireplace running this morning. I may go to bed early today because it's warmer in bed.

Comments

[garyomaha]

As one who spent a portion of my professional life editing a lot of audio and some video, I can say with certainty YES, IT TAKES TIME. A further restriction in broadcasting was that total length in many cases had to be exact -- 30 seconds, not 32 seconds -- which meant additional slicing and dicing*. I found it all to be one of the most fun things I did, but your mileage may vary. (*The technology has drastically changed over the years -- in my earlier years of doing this, I sliced and diced using actual razor blades and splicing tape.)

[kevin_standlee]

I'm happy with the results I'm getting, and I continue to learn things every episode. I'm glad I don't have to work with razor blades and tape, though, or hit an exact length.

[clothsprogs]

{smile} I have memories of splicing the ends of snapped audiotapes back together to repair favourite (and much overplayed) cassettes...

Ah - nostalgia

Teddy

[clothsprogs]

"editing an episode of Railway Legends, Myths, and Stories."

Does that mean's another one is nearly ready to be posted?

Teddy

[kevin_standlee]

Afraid not. I'm only about halfway through the episode, and Lisa says she's considering adding some material to it. Current plans at least through Worldcon are one episode per month, rather than the roughly two per month we initially released. You can blame Westercon 74, which is taking up a lot of our time.

[clothsprogs]

Given the amount of work it involves one per month is an impressive schedule.


Teddy