I finished shooting and editing our Youth Camp promo video yesterday.  It was the first time I have done a video without any part of it hitting my desktop PC (Well, at least since we started doing them that way).  Doing it on the laptop added a great amount of flexibility to the schedule since we could edit on location while we were taking a break or waiting for someone to get back so we could film.

As I've mentioned before, my laptop is skewed toward portability rather than performance, so I wasn't sure if it was up to the task, but I never dropped a frame in or out.  It also gave me an opportunity to edit with some of the kids that were interested in doing that kind of thing on their own. We had a great time, and I felt alot more at ease making editing decisions that would impact the screen time of an actor when I had a couple of the kids around to ratify them.  It came out pretty good.  As usual, I didn't have time to do all the stuff I wanted to do with it.

I need to get back on my shotgun mic project, though.  We ended up shooting in a couple of places with horrible acoustics that plagued us when mixing audio.  I also wasn't able to get the kind of shots I wanted to because I had to keep the camera so close to the subjects to hear them.

I can't wait for some sunny weekend weather.  Lately, we've had beautiful weeks and it's just overcast and rainy on the weekends.