huffpuffman

The semester is finally over! What a relief. I acutally had a pretty productive semester, especially with compostion. I’ve been working on a multimedia piece this semester, and I finally finished it Wednesday morning.

The piece is for DVD video and 5.1 surround sound. It’s called Penetralia, and is about five minutes long. I did most of the video material in Motion and then edited in Final Cut Pro. The audio was done in Digital Performer, using Compressor to encode it to Dolby Digital.

The process was exhausting. Working with video takes forever. It ended up taking a little over 8 hours to compress the final video on my G5 dual-core (only five mintues of video)!  I decided to put up a short clip from the middle of the piece. Feel free to download it and take a peek. If you want the real deal, I’d be happy to burn a copy.

PenetraliaClip.mov (3.8MB right click, save as)

You’re the only one who can hold your head up high,
Shake your fist at the gates saying,
“I have come home now!
Fetch me the spirit, the son and the father,
Tell them their pillar of faith has ascended.
It’s time now!
My time now!
Give me my
Give me my wings!”

This is what you’re missing:

Oso Closo

Snarky Puppy

Somehow, Dream Theater’s Live at Budokan DVD is ripped and up on goggle video. It sounds like crap, but there’s 3 hours of concert footage for free. It’s a good one. It’s worth watching just for the instrumental.

Another bizarre UNT death.