106 Days 11 Hours and 1 Minute

Ok so who's counting?

Things are still coming together nicely, apart from the fitness which has taken a massive hit over the past week due to the Shenannigan's 10th Birthday Celebrations.

I've been making a couple of purchases on Ebay to bring the film making up to speed.

1. Hard case for the XL1S, keeps it away from knocks and bumps. It holds the camera, two lenses, rain jacket, shoulder pad, 11 tapes (one cleaning) 3 filters, headphones, spare batteries, charger, and IEEE DV cable. There's room at the bottom for my handy cam as well, but that's about to head off to the shop for repairs.
   $190.00
   
2. Dual Output Video Card for the computer, speeds up the rendering process and gives better performance using After Effects. 256Mb AGP 8X Nvidia card, HDTV, VGA, DVI
   $97.95
3. 19" Wide Screen LCD monitor. Well there's no point in having a video card with two outputs and only one monitor. Gives me a bigger screen area to set out Adobe Premiere for editing and leaves the old CRT monitor to see the final product in play backs.
   $320.00
4. Panasonic Minidisc Recorder. This little device can plug directly into a mixing desk and get the raw sound from gigs leaving out the crowd noise. Good to mix through with the camera audio to cover any noise spikes or unwanted voice overs.
   $36.00
   

So that's my Ebay days over. I've got what I need, no need to buy anything else (hmmmm, for now)

While I'm waiting for that to arrive I've been continuing with my editing. I've managed to finish up the 28 Days Footage and need to send that off soon.

I was lucky enough to be allowed to film The Beautiful Girls gig (thanks heaps guys) as part of their Laying Tracks Tour. Luke Vasella's performance has been sent and I'm in the process of finishing up Saritah's gig. I'm still playing around with putting the whole night onto one DVD with sweet menu's, but there's 4 hours of footage and I don't want to leave any of it out. The Beautiful Girls footage is done, but again I want to smooth it out before I send it off.