So, I'm cranking out some of the backlog of pet projects I have lying around, to keep myself busy and my mind occupied and off unpleasantness whilst I wait for business days to resume and various corporate offices to reopen.

The first thing tonight was a video I made for my friend Steve, who is a fan of all things Boston. If you have been paying attention to the news, you know Boston's having quite a year in Sports - the Bruins clearly would have been a shoe-in if they hadn't canceled hockey. There's a correspondent on the Daily Show named Rob Corddry, who, like my friend Steve, is a long-time and thereby clinically traumatized Red Sox fan. In the course of last year's World Series run, Rob had a couple of bits about this on the Daily Show, and I thought they were some of the most hysterical things I'd ever seen, so I saved them on the magic TV box, so Steve could see them. Now, I've had these episodes percolating on the magic box hard drive since Oct-freaking-tober, because I am a horrible friend and never have him over.

It wasn't until tonight I actually took the time to download them from the box, and learn how to convert Replay Mpegs into something Premiere doesn't vomit up with some of its internal organs.

It took me forever, but I did manage to do it, and since I threw in some quick titles and crossfades, I'll make it generally available, instead of merely shipping it off for Steve's enjoyment.

Gentlemen and perhaps one lady maybe, I give you, Rob Corddry: Red Sox Fan.

Video compression technology, as well as my skills at ticking the right boxes in an Export dialogue to utilize it, have come a long way, so it's a very nice quality video with a middle ground file size.

Given that it will require no additional work, and relates to the LBF DVD I'm still trying to piece back together, I will probably use my newfound encoding foo to make a version of Finn's lightsaber movie that doesn't look terrible, and yet still manages to clock in at less than 136MB. If anyone wants the old 136MB quicktime file, Sod off. There will be a better one soon.

Navigating the murky waters of proprietary MPEG audio sync crapola took far longer than I thought it would, so I'll cut this short and post again when I have something else to show.

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