Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Thrive Diet Orlando

Thanks to Vegan Bodybuilding.com, an answer is solved. Their DVD that profiles 3 athletes has a triathlete who wrote a book about nutrition for vegan athletes. Well, that book is available in Hardcover, having been published Dec 2007 by Decapo press.

I drove out to buy it, in part because of my disappointment with Veganomicon just putting out variations of a theme and not meeting my needs. Not their fault, despite being the "ultimate" decepticon. Anyways, I returned Veganomicon to Borders, and I bought Thrive Diet. (http:brendanbrazier.com)

Wow! The first chapters cover his research on stress and nutrition, and roles of exercise and so forth.
So, we here at Orlandont are undertaking this for Lent. We should come out leaner, cleaner, and forgiven.

Veganomicon got me down on veganism. If you search for the 2 star review on Amazon.com, you'll find some flunkies protesting my negative review. Veganism really is a pretentious scene. I don't care for the identity aspect. However, there's aspects that I agree with and don't want to sacrifice. I appreciate Thrive Diet for sharing my sensibilities, and more importantly, doing all the heavy lifting to arrive at an optimal vegan diet and making a meal plan for those who don't want to think too hard.

Eating is a social thing, and those other vegan personality/celebrity books are good for potlucks and such. We'll refer to Joy of Vegan Baking for movie production meals. Thrive Diet is there for us to rock the stress out.

Monday, January 28, 2008

HV20 24P Reverse Telecine

Streamline Test today, Jan 28 2008:
1. Logged tape at end. Punched in 08.00, set capture for a 1 hour clip. Enabled the capture new clip at break.
This saved me setting in and out points.
Let it capture. It worked!

2. After doing the compressor pro res reverse interlace droplet, I dragged a 1gb (5min 14 secs).
This takes 28 minutes on a G5 iMac 2 ghz single processor.
So basically 5x! That's insane!

Three minutes transcoding for 00:37 seconds of HDV. Basically 5x...

Five times... is... nuts.

So... better to edit DOWN HDV to a first cut on HDV,
then transcode to 24P for 3rd cut, when you're definitely more on selects.

Better- Anthony