http://www.thatian.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 17 May 2010 07:13:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is going to be an ongoing series of posts that focus on my thoughts, techniques, and advise on video editing.  This post specifically will act as a table of contents for them.  Completed posts will be hyperlinked, while the rest will be posts I'm planning on writing. 1. Why most ... http://www.thatian.com/?p=14 Disclaimer: I barely know what I'm doing with some of these steps.  My phone didn't get bricked, but I make no promises about your phone.  Please proceed carefully. These instruction assume you got your phone like I did (from google.com/phone (retail version)) Step 1:  You need some files from the ... http://www.thatian.com/?p=13 Flash is annoying.  If you are having a random kerning or letter spacing issue with Flash dynamic text fields (AS3), try switching the anti-alias property from readability to animation.  Its stupid that these issues still exist. Update:  Setting the AntiAliasType to Advance on the text field seems to also resolve this ... http://www.thatian.com/?p=12 - A bit late. "ug" -Friday was a 21 hour work day. All for a failed experiment in editing golf to look hip, quick and cool. -Saturday started at 10pm (back to Pacific Time). Lasted 10 hours. -Sunday started at 11am (goodbye to Pacific Time). 3 hours of sleep can ... http://www.thatian.com/?p=10 I just finished a grueling remote for the British Open (or the Open if you're in the UK).  While working I overheard a network bigwig comment about a feature: "I thought the music at the end was a bit too sugary.... You know. conscious clearing." My initial reaction to the last ... http://www.thatian.com/?p=9 - Regardless of if my parents would make me walk a mile to get to school, even if in rain, I find myself okay with calling and requesting someone on the ESPN compound take the time to pick me up. My reasons for this follow: The weather can change on ... http://www.thatian.com/?p=8 - Golf is extremely boring to edit or even watch. - British plumbing sucks.  The upstairs toilet won't flush.  I think it's an issue with the mechanics of the water tank, but upon visual inspection, it's more complicated than US toilets, which can be manually forced to flush with ease.  I'll ... http://www.thatian.com/?p=7 8 00 am - Get picked up to go to Breakfast, then the airport 10 00 am - Get dropped off at the airport, proceed to lounge to get wasted noon - stumble to my gate (after remembering to grab cash as United isn't giving away drinks for flights over the Atlantic) 1 ... http://www.thatian.com/?p=6