Standup: Laugh Revival Comedy Show, 7/14/11

Here's a the bit from the first meltdown set I posted, having mainly to do with the subjects of Batman and Trains, but performed for people who thought they were going to a dance party in a warehouse, not people who were planning to see comedy in a comic book shop. (In fact, it's a cool warehouse full of weird percussion instruments!)

Photos taken by the quantifiably delightful Lucia Fasano.

FCP-X Production Note:  The very combination of characters "Jason Van Glass" is apparently a secret Apple test code that was not removed before release, chiefly useful for testing the crash report dialogue.  The save-as-you-go feature very helpfully kept me from losing data on the four attempts before successfully adding this name to the video.

Lies FCPX Told Me

Continuing to experiment with FCP-X. Oddly enough, I'm using it most for audio editing so far. The latest was a demo of how I could ensmarten myself by just removing 2 minutes of um-ing and ah-ing and pausing for thought from a segment of my appearance on The Projection Room podcast with Marco & Rebecka Duran.

The actual editing was fast and easy, and in all my previous time with FCP, I don't think I understood why I'd use the Range Select tool, and now I do. But exporting was a problem. It failed repeatedly and then told me:

Except, it didn't.  I could click okay and continue using FCPX.  It was like it couldn't handle the request I was making and just tried to distract me with a different problem.   A reboot solved this, for whatever reason.

"Excuse me, this isn't the sandwich I ordered." "I'm very sorry sir, but our restaurant is on fire."

In case you missed out on my guest shot, here's an excerpt from the show discussing one of my favorite movies you've never heard of, The Wizard of Speed and Time.

STANDUP: Matt Mira’s Day Off @ Meltdown Comics 7/3/11

Here's another standup set.  I was less prepared, but I did okay.  It was a mix of jokes I like to tell and things that I think could be good jokes later.

On a content note, I can't believe the Camp Manatoc classic worked.  Now I'm going to be hauling that out all over the place.

On a production note, I trimmed the head and tail of my recording in FCPX again, so the only part you hear is about me, and then I thought I'd edit the set - since I kind of set up the desert thing twice, I was going to get rid of one of those, and then it sounded weird and didn't work so I put it back, but I couldn't figure out how to accomplish a common technique in my editing arsenal:  Determining the time code of a point in one clip, and then finding that same time in a second clip.  It would easily produce a seamless edit, if it were possible.  Also, I found avid frustrating recently because it didn't have a working 'match frame' command that did what I expected from FCP, and now FCP doesn't either.  So that's kind of disappointing.

STANDUP: Matt Mira's Day Off @ Meltdown Comics 6/26/11

My second set at this particular show. It's the first time I've done this bit on stage in over a year.  Felt pretty good.  So I'm sharing:

PS: This audio clip is my first production made in FCPX.  A rousing success!  How will it stand up to additional experiments, with picture?  Stay tuned!

Winner of the Apple Design Award

What a day!

So I'm getting ready this morning for MaxFunCon (3D!) and what happens?  The delivery truck shows up with my Apple Design Award!  They brought it on a flatbed, so all the neighbors knew what it was pretty much immediately. Once the movers left, I had to go grab my camera to show you guys:

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Giving my award a hug:

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Unfortunately, because there's a step to enter the house, the movers had to leave it outside.  Something about their contract. It's bloody heavy.

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Actually, I'm not really sure how I'm supposed to get it into the house.

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I'm in a hurry this morning, to do airport runs and then get everyone out to the 'Con, so I'll just have to figure it out when I get back, I guess.  I hope my roommates aren't going to be mad.  I had to just put it on a cinder block so it doesn't kill as much of the lawn.

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