• I don't know why it's so hard to edit the 9 mins of video I shot tonight down to less than 2 minutes. At 3.5 mins now and can't cut anymore. #
• finally got down to about 1:40 of video. estimated encoding time: 30 minutes. ridiculous! #
• why i love ben folds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfamTmY5REw #
• kyden eats rice cereal for the first time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOuhR_jYbxM #
• Urghhhhh. Ate too much for lunch, but the three item combo at the Mexican restaurant beckoned. Flauta, chile relleno, and tamale. Mmmm. #
• picked up some bbq sauce for christi today. a ridiculously expensive bottle of bbq sauce. http://bonesuckin.com #
• Late start this morning. Does this mean that kyden's schedule is going to be an hour off all day? #
• Kyden: how come you keep taking me to Mexican restaurants, daddy? Me: Mommy's not with us, it's our only chance! http://twitpic.com/1aiatd #
• Found in almaden valley in San Jose. Think they got tired of all the white people pronouncing it wrong? http://twitpic.com/1aiba9 #
• saw the latest episode of life unexpected. still love it and is my favorite new show of the season. far better than modern family, IMHO. #
• wikipedia is down? that can happen? #
• kind of scary to think that something as innocent as a baby sling could kill babies. http://bit.ly/bIxdb9 #
• I don't know why there are so many Miley haters out there. Maybe not the best mentor choice, but her resume is impressive. #
• youtube is down? 503s showing "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable" first wikipedia, now youtube? who keeps breaking the internets? #
• ah, and just as soon as i tweet about youtube going down, it is back up. #
• March 24 birthdays – Peyton Manning, me, and now baby boy Logan Tai! http://twitpic.com/1axkz7 #
• The free @digg app comes to your iPhone! To celebrate they're giving out a custom iPad each day for 2 weeks! http://bit.ly/diggapp #
• found a job. now i only have a few days left to enjoy the unemployed life. what to do? what to do? #
• just watched coraline-great concept, beautiful set design, & amazing animation effort, but felt that the movie didn't live up to expectation #
• At happy hollow zoo with kyden. http://twitpic.com/1blkth #
• 1 min 29sec of video is 213.6MB big at 720p. takes an hour for me to upload to youtube w/ my "fast" connection. time to upgrade! #
• http://twitpic.com/1bp0xa – finally making use of the i7 in this laptop, video encoding is very intense. #

no one told me this, but if you are going to export movies out of final cut pro, you should render your sequence before trying to export it. it saves you oodles of time. now if there was only some way to get better compression off of these files…

i’ve been playing around with video encoding and it appears that i may have finally found my workflow. youtube supports the uploading and streaming of 1080p videos. at first, i thought that this would be great because my target resolution is 1080p anyway. i want to burn blu-rays and so keeping the resolution as high as possible seemed like a good idea.

what i did not realize was just how much larger a 1080p video is versus a 720p video. it is insane how quickly these files get big. i just edited a 1 minute 38 second video and the 720p version is 169.3MB. i think the problem is in large part the codec i’m using and i’m sure that i can compress the video further, but i’m a little hesitant to be too aggressive here because i want to maintain as much quality as i can. for kicks, i encoded the same 1:38 video at 1080p and the resulting file was 590.4MB. there’s just no way that i’m going to be able to store all of this video on my hard drive locally.

for youtube, i am going to upload 720p versions of the video, but i think that i’m going to have to keep the 1080p versions of the edited video as my source to burn blu-rays. that just means that i’m going to have to encode twice, once for youtube and once for media. not a perfect solution, but i think i’m starting to figure out the workflow.

and all this just for home movies of kyden!

• Koda and I went to the dog park where he made friends with three little terriers & terrorized a bunch of pigeons. http://twitpic.com/18rzea #
• RT @ProFootballTalk: No sign of JaMarcus Russell at Raiders' workouts http://is.gd/aInbW – I'm not a Raiders' fan but even I'm pissed at him #
• Kyden's morning nap is turning into his afternoon nap. I keep checking to make sure he is breathing. #
• Just set up the wireless video baby monitor for Kyden's afternoon nap. Now we can watch him sleep w/o getting up. http://twitpic.com/18uavx #
• Kyden, in addition 2 screaming @ the top of his lungs, also shows his displeasure w/ me by pinching me REALLY hard. I might buy him mittens. #
• Sublimnal message to Kyden: you will like mexican food. http://twitpic.com/18zu84 #
• Christi: Kyden is going to get pinched today! Me: How come? Christi: Because he isn't wearing green for St. Patricks day. Me: Ah, payback! #
• Kyden, the Kyzilla terrorizing the land of the Exersaucer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4DpnITqHv8 #
• Kyden, you will like pearl tea. http://twitpic.com/19mpbd #
• Kyden, you will really like pearl tea. http://twitpic.com/19mxwh #
• RT @TVGuide: Leno's Tonight Show Still Beating Letterman, But Not Like Before: http://bit.ly/98OLVN – I've stopped watching after Conan mess #
• decided to give modern family another try since everyone raves about it. i still don't get why people think it's so hilarious. #
• Out for a stroll. http://twitpic.com/1a323h #
• Been having a lot of bad pearl milk tea lately, but finally satisfied my pearl milk tea craving at ten ren in Cupertino. #

• Blush froyo gives double stamps on rainy days! http://twitpic.com/17g7lu #
• just got back from playing reverse co-ed vball. had a blast. #
• kyden FINALLY is taking his morning nap. there's only 30 minutes left in this morning! #
• I hate that Tea Era in mountain view is closed on Tuesdays. Went in for some pearl tea comfort and was met with a closed shop. #
• Bad food day. Tried to get dinner from Chavez supermarket, king eggroll, jasmine thai, L&L, and they were all closed. #
• after 6 months of no vball, i played back to back nights. 1st reverse coed, then 4's at open gym. i'm too old & too out of shape for this. #
• After nearly starving last night, I think I will take Kyden to his first Costco trip. If he could pick 1 item, I wonder what it would be. #
• Kyden and I out at Costco. I think he had the right idea, I'd rather be sleeping too. http://twitpic.com/17uwe0 #
• doing "homework" for a job interview. #
• is it just me or is this season's american idol kind of a bust? i'm not terribly excited about very many of the contestants. #

• that's weird. NBC has decided to cut away from the olympic closing ceremonies coverage to show the marriage ref & then we'll see the rest? #
• i hate jake. #
• Kyden at the soundless Shark tank. http://twitpic.com/16rl1n #
• sarah jessica parker looks AWFUL. #oscars #

• i thought packing for a trip was a lot, but packing for a trip with the kid and the dog is just daunting! can't wait to get away, though. #
• hrmmm…vitamins expire? the multi-vitamin pill i took yesterday expired in 2008. #
• Sexy water? That's how we roll in Monterey. http://twitpic.com/14zenw #
• Compagno's Deli is very highly rated on yelp, some calling it the best sandwiches in the area. http://twitpic.com/150ucj #
• Turkey and Reuben "half" sandwiches from Compagno's is the size of regular sandwiches elsewhere. http://twitpic.com/150vec #
• Eating dinner at PortaBella with Christi, Kyden, and Koda. They have a covered heated patio that is dog-friendly. http://twitpic.com/150xlp #
• Our hotel has an outdoor fire pit and is heated by heat lamps!ujuyjhum http://twitpic.com/154gyh #
• Last meal in Carmel is at allegro gourmet pizza. They have pasta too that looked delicious. http://twitpic.com/1554s8 #
• Just saw that Kyden's top teeth have broken through his gums. I thought they weren't supposed to come out for months! #
• I know he's almost 5 months old, but I'm going to follow the advice given to me: sleep when he sleeps. Nap time! http://twitpic.com/15ba28 #
• After crying for an hour in my arms, I put Kyden in the pack n' play & he immediately stopped crying. he's not sleeping, just happy. #
• We've come to an agreement. He'll stop crying if I touch him and I'll feed him pizza when he eats solid foods. http://twitpic.com/15dii1 #
• A recruiter I'm working with wants me to take a PHP compentency test before meeting with them. I can't remember the last time I took a test! #
• just finished taking the PHP competency test. it doesn't really test how good of a coder you are, it tests how well you know the PHP manual. #
• Squeeze for Mac is free at http://macheist.com – it's a tool to manage folders to use HFS+ compression. snow leopard's apps ship this way. #
• does bob costas really speak french or was the translation being fed to him? #

though canon says that the vixia hf200 records in 24fps, what it really does is record 24p in a 60i container. what does that mean? it means that you have to perform a reverse telecine to get rid of the unwanted frames and get true 24fps.

so if i wanted to use the 24fps mode on the camcorder, the Final Cut Pro workflow right now appears to look like this:

1) Final Cut Pro – Log and Transfer
This will convert the AVCHD encoded MTS files into ProRes 422 LT.

2) Compressor – Custom Profile for 1080i60->1080p24
This will perform the reverse telecine, pass through the audio, and give me a final file in ProRes 422 LT that is truly 24fps. Details on the Custom Profile are supplied by apple’s support page.

3) Final Cut Pro – Edit Video

what sucks about this is that there’s a lot of time spent converting the video into a workable format. because final cut pro doesn’t natively edit AVCHD (and even if it did, i’m not sure many computers can handle the workload effectively), converting to ProRes seems to make sense. but having to them run the video through Compressor really makes me unhappy and doubles my video import time.

i’m not really going to be editing video super long clips of video often, but still, this workflow makes shooting in 30fps kind of compelling. plus, youtube prefers their source videos in 30fps, anyway, so that might be it for me.

BEST SHOW EVER. i’m a big fan of shiri appleby and she delivers. the rest of the cast is fantastic as well. brittany robertson (plays lux) pulls off the character remarkably well. i’m a little bummed that kerr smith is left with kind of a one dimensional character, but maybe there’s more in store for him later.

the only drawback about the show is that it airs on the CW. it’s a fantastic show and it is my favorite show of the season. i recommend it to anyone who has a tv or bittorrent client. =P

• kyden now screams bloody murder when he is looking at me while i hold him, but if i face him towards mommy, he is instantly happy. #
• today officially starts my unemployment! how do i celebrate? with a phone interview… #
• still new to this video editing thing: canon's hf200 24p isn't a true 24fps. but this is what you have to do to get 24p: http://bit.ly/4ec2L #
• Mommy left us for the afternoon! Who is going to cry louder? http://twitpic.com/14mnfy #