Christmas Day

Hello there!  It’s Christmas day (or was about 26 minutes ago,) and I find it wonderful that God would grace us with so much real love in this world: with friends, and family, and all that is good.

So, in this simple, short, and sweet post I will give you a little Christmas graphic I made up in Inkscape recently.

Merry Christmas to all!

Oh, and by the way: tomorrow I may be filming a new film that I just came up with this evening.  It will involve nature, a creek, hopefully some music, me, and a narration.  Hope you enjoy it!  We’ll see how it goes.

And for now, God bless and best wishes to all!
May you find what you are truly looking for,

With much love,

-b

NaNoWriMo has started!!!

The National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) has finally started!  After a year of waiting it’s finally come around again!

National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.

[http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/whatisnano]

No, I haven’t written anything yet… however, this year I am using a large dry-erase whiteboard to map out my characters, and I have the main character marked on the near-center of the board.  🙂  As I progress through the story (no outline written down this year) I will write down the new characters, write notes, and link everything together on the dry-erase board.  🙂

I am immensely looking forward to creating this year’s novel, code-named “Backspace.”

I have participated in and won NaNoWriMo once – last year, NaNoWriMo 07!  🙂  It was such an excellent writing experience that I hope to do it every year for the rest of my life here on Earth.

This year’s novel will hopefully be a lot less wordy than last year.  😦  No matter what happens, I hope it will be worth while and a ton of fun!

See you on the other side,

-b

P.S. I may do some NaNoWriMo vlogs this year… maybe.  🙂

Dr. Narendra Singh – 2008 Interview (a new film!)

Hey guys!  We now have a new film!  It is an Interview with Dr. Narendra Singh, an Indian evangelist. Great thanks to him for giving up his time so I could interview him! It is highly appreciated, and I hope this video will bless those who view it.

Dr. Narendra Singh – 2008 Interview from Minosa Films on Vimeo.

I edited the film using CyberLink BD Solution PowerDirector Express. The text images were made in Inkscape.

The opening title is too long, I could add music to the intro/end text, and the file size is larger than optimal, but unless it causes problems or I feel highly necessary, I may leave this video as the final version.

I would re-encode it with a greater compression, but may have to do that later (hardware complication.)

Thanks!

-b

P.S. If the video loads too slowly, try turning off HD (hover over the Vimeo video) or let me know via a comment or e-mail!  If it is too difficult for people to view I will endeavor to re-encode it (with some tweaks on the video as well, while I’m at it,) for you.

P.P.S. Sorry, WordPress can’t embed Vimeo videos. 😦 Oh well… 😀
EDIT: fixed it! Check out what dalas verdugo has to say here: http://www.vimeo.com/forums/topic:1221

Still looking

I am still looking for a workable and effective workflow with the Everio GZ-HD7.  Using PowerDirector Express, I can convert the files to mpeg2 and use it in Premiere Pro 1.0.  But when I export the video, (as far as I know,) it squashes the widescreen footage, creating black letterboxes on both sides, and I cannot open the file with Media Player Classic.  I may check into getting a complient codec to read the exported files.

Cannot render file

So, some progress is being made, thankfully.  We will see whether I will need to purchase a commercial video converter or new editing (NLE) software soon.

I hope the ideas will come, and I need to sit down and brainstorm some film ideas!  Bonsai!

Well, God bless,

Thanks for listening,

-b