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Monday. My first holiday day!

More DVD work to be done. I have installed a cat feeder. No more 5:30 AM wake-ups from the mow-mow...

10:55 AM:
I have ironed out all of the bugs that I can see in the software's preview function of the DVD. The menu works properly now. I can now build this DVD in 20 minutes from start to finish. I have had plenty of bloody practice. The DVD software is so damn buggy that I have had to start again a few times. Grrrrrr...

My test DVD is just a few videos that I had downloaded recently to see what I could do.

1. Red vs Blue Episode 54.
   
2. Red vs Blue Episode 55.
3. Red vs Blue Episode 56.
4. Red vs Blue Episode 57.
5. I'm still seeing Breen - An awesome Machinima video to Breaking Benjamin's 'So Cold'. It's just another demonstration of the power of Valve's Half-Life 2 Engine.
6. 'Climb Dance' - An old favorite video. Ari Vatannen's 1988 run on Pike's Peak when he set the record time.

Lots to do!

2:00 PM:
New project! I decided to make a DVD of some episodes of Neurotically Yours by Illwill Press. It seems I have bitten off more than I can chew, well maybe not. Perhaps more than I can chew in one sitting. After doing my research I found that there's a lot more involved than I thought.

• Convert the Flash to an AVI video.
• Separate the audio out into a WAV file.
• Trim the audio ends off (intro and end frames).
  
• Re-Encode the AVI file as PAL, 625 Line, 720x576. Removing intro frames and end frames, apply a noise-reduction filter.
• Start a new Premier project
• Import the WAV (audio) file and MV2 (video) files.
• Synch up the audio and video.
• Export to a finished MV2 + WAV pair.
• Add MV2 + WAV pair into Encore DVD as Asset.
• Create a new TimeLine.
• Add into the TimeLine the video and audio.
• Create a button for the menu.
• Create a menu, add the button, link it to the TimeLine!

Oh, Is that all...

5:12 PM:
2 More eps to re-encode!