New Studio Digs

Set up the A/V Studio in our new apartment. Tight but workable.

Studio Shake Up & Scene 54

Even with having the unfortunate news I am going to have to pack and move my A/V Studio I was able to get some editing dome on Rat Rod Rockers! Scene 54. I have slowly been packing up my studio and getting things ready to move next week. The reasons are hard to explain, other than we can not have personal Creative Spaces in our Arts School, or so we just found out. This will be a pain, but since I have such a small and modern set-up, will not be too hard to move. Not like the old days with giant consoles and racks of outboard gear. I can set up in any corner of a bedroom or living room. The Catch 242 is that this is the same gear that I also use to teach the kids before and after school music and film classes. So I will either have to buy several new computers and make a second A/V system for the school or just not teach the classes next fall.

In The Studio

If you are like me- you spend a hell of alot of time in your studio. I am lucky that my newest space for Die-Cast Studios is a huge room with 24/7 climate control and a view of the woods. So many past spaces I have set my gear up in were dank, dark little hole in the walls, without heat or air conditioning. Even last year I was working out of a garage in our old rented house that got so hot in the summer you could barely breathe. That kind of setting is not conducive to serious work. I mean we all (creative types) do it where we can and I am fortunate (for now) to have an awesome space to work in. Hallelujah and knock on wood!

Sunny Seattle

Sunny Seattle day. This is the view outside of my recording studio. The sun is out and the air is crisp. Been rendering a new version of Hot Rod Girls Save The World for the up coming Kustom Edition DVD. This has been ongoing for the last four days! It takes Quicktime 26 hours (on my little 733 G4 Mac) to compress the 19 Gig file to a 4.2 Gig sized file that will fit on a standard DVD. It takes Compressor about 8 hours (as opposed to 26 hours) to compress the same file. The hard part is getting the largest file size that will still fit, but not going over. It's hit or miss with each try taking 26 hours!