- 3:21 PM, Tuesday,
March 9th, 2021:
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- You can labor over
shit like this... for days.
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-
- ...and if The
Journey has taught me anything? It's that you
shouldn't labor over shit like this for days. You lose
the spirit of the concept. Except here's the problem.
That little opening? That's also the opening title for
each Journey Volume. Every 10 years... until I die. So
yeah, it was finished by the time I got up at 6:30am
today and it's now, what 3:30? Which means I
re-rendered and re-fucked with every frame for 9
hours. It's still not how I want it in my mind... but,
it does feel like The Journey. That's the other
thing...
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- ...I can never go
too professional for certain things. GolfKon
videos? Sure - go all out. If I had the time and money
for "Drinks and Minigolf"? Oh yeah, you want that as
professional as humanly possible. But Journey stuff?
Whew. I've found that the magic of The Journey is it
feels workman-like. You add too much pizazz and it
feels like you're somehow selling out.
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- Now, annoyingly, I
didn't get that footage when we went there a couple
weeks ago or even when we went there last week because
there's some things you can't do when making sure your
kids aren't falling to their death on a mountain:
concentrate on "the shot". So I took a separate
trip and although I have a capable drone, it had
been so long since I fired it up I was worried
I'd be in firmware hell trying to make it work so
Jesse lent me his. Trusty Mavic-Air which certainly
did the trick however I didn't take off the collision
detection and fighting THAT craziness to get my shot
was near impossible. So I didn't get exactly what I
wanted... but I also didn't crash his drone so that's
awesome.
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- I'm also trying to
make an SD piece of footage merge with 4K footage and
even worse? I don't have the original footage from the
bit. Oh what a fucking annoyance that is. So I'm stuck
with the edited shot - words on-screen and all. Blah
blah blah, it works. I'm relatively happy although man
the angles I had before were SO BADASS - I just
couldn't bring it home without going back to the
mountain with a sturdier drone. Mavic Air is awesome,
but it gets abused by the wind more than my phantom
did.
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- But we're talking
about 10 seconds. LOL. Even if it's the beginning 10
seconds of the rest of my life in the end it's just 10
seconds.
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- So we move on...
one-year anniversary on Thursday. Fucking
hell.
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- Adam
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