Fluff from the naval of my mind

It’s been a long, but ultimately satisfying day today. Managed eleven hours straight through on one task; preparing a video showing the various methods of accessing a Subversion repository and the options available for securing communication between the client and server.

Working with Apple’s Studio Pro is  a joy. I’m currently using Motion for all the main animation work and assembling the final cut in, well, Final Cut. It seems to take about one hour to prepare one minute of video, although obviously this varies a lot depending on how dense the animations are and how much fine tuning I do. Tomorrow I will be working with Final Cut and Soundtrack Pro to assemble the sound in the final edit.

While waiting for scenes to render I got more work done editing the course material. The course material is shaping up nicely now that the site style has settled down I’m rather pleased with the results. It is, however, turning out to be an interesting challenge transfering information from the book form into an on-line course. There is quite a difference in how the information needs to be structured between the two.

I need a few weeks of this kind on intensity to make some serious progress, and that is going to be tough. That said, if I don’t get stuck in then I’ll starve before this makes enough money to make it worth while. So, it’s heads down tomorrow and Friday, then a weekend with my son and back at it on Monday for a full week.

Meanwhile, I’ve been working on my professional blog. This is forming a part of the promotion material for the course so I need to keep adding to that to maintain reader interest.