I have not been posting enough recently, so I'll forgo having any real theme today and just post on what I've been doing recently.
Thursday night I went to see
30 Days of Night, which I will probably post a review on before too long. To summarize, it was better than the other vampire films of recent years.
Saturday, Mel and I went hiking in
Cougar Mountain Regional Wildland Park. We hiked up to Anti-Aircraft Peak which, as the name suggests, was a site for anti-aircraft guns back in WWII. Later on it became a Nike missile base. The park is quite different from most of those that we have visited in the Seattle area. The trees are much younger, with a much smaller proportion of evergreens. I suspect it was logged our entirely at some point. We saw some gorgeous woodpeckers from the trail.
Saturday night, we went out to Blue C for some sushi. Later, we met our friends Sze Lyn and Mark at a wine bar in Capitol Hill where we conversed, drank wine, and watched the costumes go by.
Sunday I did a lot of tinkering with video-editing software. I recently rebuilt my desktop computer with all new internals. One of the reasons for this was to have a machine I could use for video editing, using Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects. The old box would do decently with these, but performance issues were a productivity drain. Sunday I set up these software packages and checked out how well they worked with the new hardware, playing with some old footage that I had lying around. I did have one fairly irritating disappointment. The old version of Premiere Pro that I have will not capture footage properly from a DV camera under Vista. I was forced to install it under XP on an alternate boot partition (I suppose I could also have shelled out $200 to upgrade to the new version of Premiere).
I have never really dug into video software for Linux, but if anyone has any suggestions for good tools, I would like to hear them.
