2 posts tagged “seattle”
We made it to Hong Kong safe and sound. Twenty five hours of travel and four totally trashed kids, but we made it.
We left Seattle Thursday at 12:30 in the afternoon on a direct flight to Tokyo. We arrived there at 3:30 in the afternoon on Friday, for us, nine hours later. The sun never set, we were in daylight the entire way so the kids had a very difficult time sleeping. Consequently the next three-plus hours in Norita were spent with melting kids. The flight from Tokyo to Hong Kong was only noteworthy in that everyone was asleep before takeoff.
So it is two am Hong Kong time, and the kids are sleeping. Perhaps we can torque their body clocks around by stringing them out with sleep-deprived travel. The jury is still out on that.
We should start posting video clips from the trip shortly. Drew was editing some of the footage on the airplane (until his battery died.)
And so the adventure begins.
Life is so full of unexpected challenges.
As the media engine on this trip to Hong Kong (principal photography, executive producer, editor, web master and chief bottle washer) Drew has come to expect the unexpected. But he wasn’t expecting this. Our laptop crashed. Big-time. And so five days before we are scheduled to leave we are frantically trying to configure a production computer.
But we are making progress. The new machine is a cute little HP loaded with Vista. As the pround owner of this sleek little gem dad should be very excited. But alas, he is not. None of the production software we have tested works very well on the new machine (Avid, QTPro, Macromedia). In fact the Avid gives us the blue screen of death. Growing pains for sure. But we have moved over the PremierPro (thank you Adobe for building such a great app) and we seem to be back in business.
So here is the first of two tests as we try and figure out how we will get all this stuff to work in a few days. If you click the link on the right it will play full size. This video is Kat asking about flying fish at the Pike Place Market. We are testing the tool we use to compress and upload the video.
The next test will be to determine if our HD camera will work with the new video editing softare. And then we will be done. And the blog will be ready to go. And you won't have to endure our growing pains.
