I must stop doing things
I must stop doing things just because I can
I must stop doing things just because I can
Doesn’t mean you should just because you can
Doesn’t mean you should just because you can
(type it a thousand times before dawn and force it into your dumb head, David my boy - because it really is a Fact of Life)
But at least life isn’t dull. The latest mad "put your hand up and volunteer moment" involves the video footage of The Warfield show in San Francisco. This is a single camera shoot, with often poorly framed pictures. So, like the fool I am, I suggested that it would be better re-framed into widescreen - a simple job in Adobe After Effects, I said. Except that, now my son has departed for Australia, no-one in the office knows how to use After Effects. Except me. And the deadline was this Tuesday, leaving no time to outsource. So I spent the mornings of both Saturday and Sunday, when I should have been with my lovely family, staring at a computer screen in the office, watching a concert click through at about half speed, automating the reframing of every image. Time for that chorus again :
Doesn’t mean you should just because you can
Doesn’t mean you should just because you can
But at least the footage now looks a million times better I find myself thinking and the THRAK boxed set will be so much better for it. Hmmm!
Speaking of said boxed set, it will indeed be wonderful. On Tuesday (the deadline above) I mastered the surround sound audio with Neil Wilkes. And the majority of it is, well, simply splendiferous. The surround sound of ATTAKcATHRAK is a wonder to behold, even if I say so myself. In fact, both Declan and Neil remarked on how well the band now improvise - which I took as something of a complement as an honorary seventh member, who has guided them through mad geographical leaps, with a change of venue roughly every thirty seconds. The solution to great improvising is evidently to remove the chaff, take all the golden nuggets, and then sow them seamlessly (hopefully) into a coat of many colours. Exactly like THRAKATTAK and also nothing like it.
Oh and not tell anyone that you have done it, so that the band appear to be masters of the universe and uncannily tight. Failed on the last part. But I think I’ve mentioned that in the diary before. And no-one really reads this, so they?
But what of The Vicar, I hear that one reader asking. Songs continue to flow. Davide Rossi is coming in early next week, so there is a flurry of activity arranging string parts so that his golden bow can weave its magic on Monday. And I will upload the demo of "Simon Says" that I mentioned last week. I promise! (A real promise, not a Lib Dem Students’ fee sort of promise - ooh ouch - unfair political bias, what of all the Tory/Labour/SNP/Plaid Cymru/Republican/Democrat/Tea Party/Banking/Police/Anyone-else-in-authority broken promises). Yes, not like any of them.
