You can hide, but you can't run

Sawyer's Bail Recovery
"Bounty Knows No Boundaries."
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Dear cigarette counterfeiters,

We're watching.

Sincerely,

Jim Sawyer
Owner

Ted Brown
Chief Financial Officer and Lead Bail Enforcement Specialist

Gina Masters
Executive Enforcement Specialist

President?

Why Ted played Mike...or vice versa.

After waking yesterday his first question to his girlfriend was, "Is Reagan still President?"

Editing a monologue...what a nightmare.

Also, despite what the documentation might tell you, the frames you select when reversing a clip have no bearing on what the final result will be. It actually appears to perhaps count back that distance from your first frame, which makes little sense. So the only way to achieve the result you want is, of course, trial and error. Woot!

From The Economist:

"TOWARDS the end of the cold war Ronald Reagan announced plans to use powerful lasers to shoot down any incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles that the Soviet Union aimed at America. The lasers were real but the plan was fanciful. Scientists now propose a more modest system, aimed at insects rather than nuclear warheads. They think lasers could be used to zap the mosquitoes that carry malaria, a disease which kills more than a million people each year, most of them children, and debilitates hundreds of millions more."

Have Jim and Ted gotten it all wrong?

Viewing party

Had a chance to show a big portion of the movie to part of the crew last night. It was cool. There's still a neverending stream of work to do, but this was the largest continuous assemblage yet seen, of both film and personnel.

Film, please finish yourself now.

Ah, disaster

Nothing like making some edits to a scene only to discover you've killed the audio sync for 90% of the movie.

Let me pose a question to you, Adobe. Your ripple edit is a powerful tool and behaved as designed, but do you really think someone making a small change to one clip really expects two hours of footage and hundreds of clips to be pulled out of audio sync in doing so? It's not wrong, but is it right?

The fix was relatively simple since only one video track was affected, although the whole affair was rather stressful. Of course it happened after I'd been thinking how oddly well things had been going. In general, despite my initial frustrations, Premiere has been a powerful and useful tool. Now if only it would stop rendering my computer unable to emit sound every now and then...