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On Location

By Nick Hodge | August 5, 2007

Panorama: Gold Coast, Sunset

The above is the sunset-view from my room. To the left is the hin­ter­land, and to the right is the beach itself.

On Loc­a­tion, at the Gold Coast pre­par­ing for a busy, edu­ca­tional week at Microsoft TechEd. Being my first TechEd, any­thing could and prob­ably will hap­pen. I do know I will leave more edu­cated than I arrive.

 

Paul Hester signed snare

Whilst I watched the SBS TV series on the mak­ing of the Crowded House album, Wood­face, there were much rev­els going on around me. It seemed to be a beer bash-come-stag party. So I turned up the TV with Neil Finn hope­fully calm­ing the din. Neil gets the impact of his music. The mer­cur­ial Finn brothers.

Up at 9am this morn­ing thanks to a fire alarm. I could smell the smoke, but thought it was someone smoking on a non-smoking floor.  By the time I got my import­ant items (pair of pants on, room key, wal­let, cam­era, phone — in that order) ready to stroll out — the fire­men were look­ing around for the smoking cul­prit. No one seemed ultra alarmed, so stayed put.

Today, it’s about plan­ning. To quote Uncle Mike: “Piss Poor Plan­ning Pre­cedes Poor Per­form­ance”. Check­ing the cam­era equip­ment comes first.

Hav­ing installed the new Adobe Pro­duc­tion Premium Suite, I tried out OnLoca­tion. And this piece of tech­no­logy Adobe pur­chased rocks. It essen­tially turns your Firewire/Laptop into a hard disk recorder and mon­it­or­ing sta­tion. No more cap­tur­ing slowly in post-production. Straight into Premiere, encode and you’re outta there.

Tomor­row it starts: danah boyd in Brisbane.

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