Interlude: Checking In

Heya folks just checking in for a second because it’s taking a leeeetle longer to get done what I want to before I start back up on regular video content, although I’m seriously hoping to have something new out for you before the end of the day today.

Glad I’m hitting the spot I am right now; this computer is about done for I’m afraid. It’s just not up to running modern versions of stuff like AfterEffects when you’re really pushing it. Got bluescreened last night, which…might be the second or time that’s ever happened on this computer? But generally things are getting super-duper slow as software continues evolving to take advantage of physical architecture that just plain didn’t exist when this computer was born. I think I’m going to have to prioritize funding for that over getting business paperwork in order for now, or there won’t be a business to file any paperwork on. The good news is, I know how to buy a computer 🙂 This one’s lasted a decade, which is pretty doggone decent for a computer.

That’s part of what’s taking so long, though, I’m spending a whoooole lot of time looking at a little circle cursor while I wait for some background thing to finish happening so the screen will refresh after I changed a text title, or having to restart the program every time I make a change because it won’t display the preview properly anymore due to sucking down 12 or 13G of the 16G available memory on this box…typical symptomology of a computer aging out of its useful production life and getting ready to retire into service as a low-load file server behind a new box, if you’re in IT.

Then you end up having to do more pre-rendering to compensate where on a modern box I could just link the live AFX files in Premiere and bounce back and forth between them easily for editing. Right now I’m doing it more old-school, rendering AFX files into videos then compiling those videos into an entire working presentation, which radically reduces production time in the current situation, but there’s also a big hit at the top in terms of building templates and reusables, which is what I’ve been doing the last couple of days for this specific thing that’s going to fulfill the intent of the “Morning Meeting” newsletter in that it will be:

• mostly daily
• short-ish (max 5 minutes +/- credits)
• accompanied by video & podcast

There’s a ton of other information to talk about related to all this but it’s not quite here and now yet. Today? Hopefully, but tomorrow if not unless something seriously blows up.

So yeah. But don’t let me get you thinking I’m all down about it – I’m doing what I can with what I’ve got, just like I always have, and pretty quick here we’re gonna talk about how to radically improve what I’ve got, so I can radically improve what I’m doing 🙂

As always thanks for your patience and support. I know it looks chaotic, but things are going well. Just not as quickly as I would like…which won’t be helped if I stop every six hours and talk about what I’m doing instead of just doing it.

Love y’all. Back at it.