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Monday October 6th 2003 03:03 AM PST

There is one type of project that i can never pass up. Its the last minute, rush job, against all odds, uphill climb, technically impossible, CD-ROM presentation. I've done a few in my time, so when Brian and Wendy called me today asking for a little backup, i couldn't resist. So i went and hung out with them and drank. Its a hard job. In between beers and food and wine i think we actually got some work done. Most of it was compression drinking. (thats the time you've got when you're waiting for video to compress, and all you do is drink) So we finally hit a nice little setting in Media Cleaner 5 that would let us have a good piece of video playing at 800x600 and still come off a CD-ROM without waiting too long. The really funny part about it is... I dragged my windoze box over there to work on, and i actually was compressing video really fast. I always used to do this at 5555 and faction, and i took FOREVER. Back then i was using a radius board and compressing to sorenson on a old G3. This was really nice cause it was the first time i really did compression using a 2.2Ghz processor. I still think its funny compressing quicktime on a windoze box.