Episode 7 - Light My Fire, Show Notes
January 20, 2008 – 7:55 am by cfilesThis episode was one for the ages. We had tons of issues, logistics, and other various things to over come just to get it out there.
Ryan and I first starting talking about him joining me in early December. Over the course of the next few weeks we came up with several ideas and ways for him to join me as a co-host. Oh did I mention he lives in Washington state and I live in Arkansas? Yeah, that was why we discussed it so much.
For this episode we knew we could film it together because he was going to be in Arkansas for Christmas. So that is what we did, one random day we went out and filmed the entire episode and all was good. That is until I went to edit the film two weeks later. When I pulled the video over to my computer the first bit of it was ruined. I will spare you the details but it was basically a bad spot in the tape. So off to re-film the lead in!
After that issue was diverted I went back to finish editing, only to find that the last half of the video Ryan and I shot was inaudible because of the wind. When we filmed, the wind was blowing so hard that you could not hear a word that Ryan was saying. I guess that is what we get for filming right next to the banks of the Arkansas River. No big deal here we just had to narrate that section. That takes time and a lot of patients though…so that pushed the release off a week.
We finally got the video all put together and published. Then our video host had an issue making the Flash (web version) of the video. It soon became obvious that the issue on their server was not going to be fixed so I took matters into my own hands and made the Flash version myself. An upload, a blog post edit, and a little grief later the episode was in the books.
Through it all, I think we created a really good and very informative video. Ryan and I had a blast making it together; it is going to be interesting making the next episode with him back in Washington.
