When I wrote last week's Comic Cuts column I was still feeling the utter frustration of late shipping. This turned into the utter frustration of my video editing software not saving files properly, as I'd sat down in front of the camera on Friday, edited the video on Saturday and then spent Saturday afternoon trying to figure out why it wouldn't save properly. Either the picture disappeared, leaving just the audio, or when both appeared they were out of synch after a few minutes.
The solution... well, I had left a little gap in the audio that pushed everything off kilter; then I found that I'd accidentally deleted a little bit of the video (hence the sudden appearance of some MYTEK covers part way through the video... then I couldn't get the video to end where I wanted it to, hence the appearance of those covers again to mask a mystery 1½ minutes at the end of the video (and I still don't know how that happened).
And after all that, I must have tried to export the finished video twenty to twenty five times and it just wouldn't save. The daft thing was it was the easiest fix you could ever have with a computer: I shut down the programme, reopened it, re-loaded the project and it exported without any problems. Well, aside from a couple of other edits I had to make, and each time I simply saved the project, shut down the programme, launched the programme and exported the video file. Simples, as those pesky meerkats would say.
The finished video eventually went up on Sunday morning and I finished writing a little piece on an artist and started another one over Sunday/Monday.
Tuesday was a day off: Mel and I met up with my mum in Maldon and wandered up and down the High Street, visiting a couple of churches and a small art gallery with a remarkable embroidered history of the town, having some food and drinks and, mostly, nipping into every charity shop we could find. You'll recall that Tuesday was a particularly hot day (around 27°), not the best day to spend in the open, or on a bus for an hour and a half each way, but overall it was a fantastic day out.
By Tuesday, I was seeing a lot of the backlog of MYTEK books ship from the printers, with the bulk of the missing orders filled; as of today (Thursday) I believe there is only one outstanding order that has not shipped and that may have changed by this evening. Everyone else should have received their books (and I'm hearing from people who have) or they'll arrive in the next day or two.
Once that one missing order has arrived, I'll list the books on Ebay and on Amazon. I promise you, there won't be similar delays with those orders as I've waited until I have copies to hand. The same will happen with the third volume which I'm hoping will be on sale in September.
After that, who knows. Well, I have an idea that I'm floating with Rebellion but we shall just have to wait and see what happens. In the meantime, I have a couple of indexes to work on that will keep me busy for a while.
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