yelyah - “deadlines ahead 20111030” piano improv
How prescient.
It’s the 2nd here and my daily November goal already has driven me to staying up until the wee hours of the morning.
I’m attempting to do a screencast a day in addition to the weather screencast. A deliberate screencast, if you will. So things end up getting slightly scripted, things get post produced.
Let me tell you. It’s far far easier to just do it off the cuff, even when that means starting over several times.
Day 1’s screencast (that got uploaded this morning) already has created a todo list of its own of things to fix and then upload again later. But at least one of them is online. It’s how to make a karaoke album from the command line using sox.
In reality, it could’ve been a 30 second screencast. Here’s the command, boom, you’re done. But for good or bad, I keep coming up with these short screencast ideas that just blossom into, “well, what if I did this. And that. And that too.” And suddenly I’ve spent probably 8 freaking hours on something that would’ve taken like probably 30 minutes at most if I’d just stuck to the original idea.
And there’s the sad thing. I probably did spend at least 8 hours on it. It plays for less than 5 minutes. The thing I have to keep remembering is that I learned a lot in those 8 hours. And it will be way quicker the next time.
And of all the things, audio on the video is driving me nuts. I fell into the loudness wars and was trying to match the overall volume of other common youtube videos I listen to, since the original video was way way quieter than everything else I compared it to. But by doing that, it really brought out the “shouting informercial voice” that I apparently had that night. I still haven’t really figured out how I’d take care of that.
But time to wrap this up, because I have to do another screencast before I go to bed (see, for me, so long as I finish it before I go to bed, then it’s not really tomorrow yet).
