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Inching Along

"Mr Snail Did it!"

Production for the next episode of Knitterati feels like it's moving at a snail's pace. Last week I spent several delightful hours rough cutting interview footage and anticipated spending most of Sunday continuing the process. Instead, I spent that day struggling with technology and researching solutions. The size of the uncompressed movie files that make up each Knitterati episode are massive. They seem to grow in size with each successive production. When I sat down on Sunday, I found myself looking at a barely-started movie file that was already over 10GB and a mere 3.75GB of free hard drive space. As much as I wanted to dig into more editing, I knew my computer would crash unless I found a way to free up some space in which I could work. Many hours of frustrating research and a trip to MicroCenter later, I found myself the owner of a brand-new external hard drive with a whopping 500GB of free space. Hopefully, my new purchase will jump start my production again. Next slated for rough cutting is a project tutorial. Think of it: a knitting demo on a knitting vodcast!

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