V is for virtuous

Which is how I'm being with not swearing at Premier. I don't know quite what it is about Premier which winds me up so much - but it does just annoy me.

The editing functions are nice, but why does exporting video have to be a trial by experiment affair - especially when rendering each time takes ages. I've no idea why it won't export video that anything else can actually view, or why everything leaps up and says "this video has not been rendered for sequential viewing. You should reinterleave the video before exporting it to a slow medium" and then plays something of such staggeringly poor quality that it's unwatchable.

I don't know what settings it *should* have, but none of the 'default' options work. I just end up fiddling with it until it works, which is tedious and because I'm normally tired and "just want the fucking thing to save the fucking movie" by the time I get to exporting, well, my patience tends to be a bit thin.

This is my last attempt of the night though. And I need to work more tomorrow, so, well, we'll see what happens. I'll probably play a bit but I can't afford to spend my whole day trying to coax it into rendering video.

ohmygod

Oh my god

Oh my god

Oh my god

Oh my god

Oh my god

I'm going to Canada. I. That is me. I, myself, am going to Canada. Thanks to Rochelle who's offered to let me stay and the discovery of much cheaper flights, I can go.

So I've decided to take 2 weeks out of being completely broke to go and be broke in Canada.

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

*bounce*

In other news....

Updated:

The A Pride of Minors 2006 EuroPride video is now available for download at the video page. In two flavours, Huge and Quite Small But Not Very Good Quality. It's also in the process of being added to Google Video, so for those without enormous bandwidth availability it should be on there soon. Just getting verified at the moment.

I have been very bad.

Very bad.

No, badder.

I have only done a minimal amount of work today. I've watched my video through a few times though. I've booked tickets to Canada I can't afford, or justify, but worse. So much worse. Before that, feeling mizog as I was, I bought 15 quids worth of DVDs. Why? Just because I fancied them. So now I must stop spending money that I don't have. Because:

In early September, Lauren will be moving out (assuming we hand in notice nowish) and I will have to move. I will have to move to... where? Where I don't know, because at this point I have no job. Apart from the HCA work I've got here...

... of course, as Rochelle reminded me, there's lots of other jobs I can do and which will help keep me solvent. So. Yes. It'll be fine. If somewhat tight. And I *know* I shouldn't have booked it, but I *need* a holiday, and this is something to look forward to. And believe me I'm looking forward to it.

Of course, having spent real cash money on flights (it being cheaper than using Nectar points to get discounts, the tax and left-over-to-pay being substantially more than my tickets were flat out); well; I was left with 12,000 nectar points. And, y'know what I'd discovered when I was looking at Nectar points? The Brazil - Criterion collection 3 disk version that I've wanted for years... well, it was there. And so was the Firefly complete box set. And so... they're mine. Mwuhahaha.

I have been a good little consumer today. Oh, and I printed this because I want to frame it. Because at the end of the day, I'm still a little geek girl.