Hey hey! I'm taking some time here at lunch to reflect on the holidays.  I was hoping to have some time to work on some FilmProjects and other things, but ended up not spending much time at home.

We had a wonderful time in Belton with my family for Christmas and and in El Paso with Becky's parents for New Years.  I got more video games than I have time to play now.

I also got upgraded to the new version of Adobe Premiere.  I haven't had a chance to do anything but pull up some projects I'm working on and play.  The main new features I was looking forward to were:

• Sub-pixel motion paths rather than the crap for crap motion effects in 6.x
• Better color correction capability.  The new version keeps everything in the YUV colorspace so there's no loss in a YUV-RGB-YUV conversion.  This also makes it easier to do correction for broadcast since NTSC is all YUV-based.
• Audio enhancements - 5.1 audio mixing.
• Better DVD support - It was a pain in the rear to export to MPEG2 for DVD, especially for true 24p 16x9 projects and I was very jealous of iMovie's quick DVD capabilities.

Things I wasn't expecting were:

• Nestable timelines - Fantastic for organizing scenes
• Transitions on any video track - I'll have to get used to not having the A/B track editing, but that's been discouraged for a while anyway.

That's all I can think of right now.  I'm working on sort of a music video montage for the Three Nails Short CD Release Party.  I've got TONS of footage captured from analog sources that has to be organized, and already the new tools are helping.