Groupwork

[davidn]

"Welcome to the Multimedia Lab! Good luck... you'll need it"
Someone has written that on the board in the new Multimedia Lab next door. I feel rather bad for the Computer Science department, because every time they buy something new it seems to be rubbish. There's certainly a lot of stuff in there, but most of the problem lies in Adobe Premiere, of which one of the fatal flaws is that it seems to export videos that are very different from what you see when you're working in the program. We spent four hours in there yesterday trying to capture scenes from the Muppet Christmas Carol to turn it into a horror-type stream of conciousness garble, and it starts off well but you can see where our interest wanes in the middle.

In another example of why I dislike groupwork so much, more immediately terrifying is the presentation for PSAC. We're due to give it in 58 minutes and most of the slides are still being written - so no time to rehearse, we'll just go next door and present it all on the fly, trying to make it vaguely coherent while we make it up as we go along.

Then a design for a new Instruction Set Architecture is due in on the 12th, and a rewrite of Microsoft Powerpoint for the 16th. A bit of good luck might come in useful.

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[ex-gh232.livejournal.com]

Someone has written that on the board in the new Multimedia Lab next door.

That was me, after a particularly harrowing Premiere editing session.

[davidn]

Never a truer word has been spoken/written in alternate colours. Do you also notice the disparity between what you think you're doing and what Premiere thinks you're doing?

[ex-gh232.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what it thinks at all, but I imagine it might be similar to the thoughts of somebody who's just taken a significant quantity of hallucinogenic drugs, washed down with Red Bull.