I had the day off today, and I managed to put it to good use. I edited (not much left after Joel did his cut) our 2nd video podcast. I’m honestly not to sure about the future of our video podcasts. They take a lot more time then the audio podcast and I don’t think the content is as good. There will be times where we will put some really good stuff up, such as the RED panel discussion we hosted at Sundance this year, but for the most part, I think our audio podcasts have finally come into their own.

That said, we will have some special episodes coming up that really take advantage of the video podcast format, such as a sneak peak behind the scenes of the film “Shipping and Handling.”

In addition to the podcast, which I encoded into flash as well as the iTunes compatible .m4v file format. So, if you click on the Episode 2 Video podcast link, it will take you to a page that will play the video in flash format. I’ll have a slight change, with a load image similar to youtube, although that requires a bit more coding than I’m going to do tonight.

I’ll be adding an audio flash player to the forum post as well.

Of course, the most important thing that I worked on was a few scenes from my script, “Pandamonium.” I’ve been making progress on the revisions and yesterday I fixed a major problem scene. I never really like how it was written, as the whole thing was frankly stupid.

It took a lot of thinking, but I managed to fix it. The problem of course is that the scene is important and it HAS to be in the movie. It leads directly to plot point 1. Some might even say it is Plot Point 1, therefor I can’t just cut it out.

I also had an issue with the previous scene. So with this change that I made, it also fixed the previous scene. This one change, granted I re-wrote an entire page, fixed 2 scenes and made them shine. Of course, I have about 30 more troubling scenes to go. I’ll get to those when I get to those.

See you when I see you.

Thomas A. Koch