Last night, I set up a video projector, some speakers and my home-built 8' x 6' movie screen in my backyard. I put some beers on ice, arranged the Adirondack chairs, and invited my buddy/director over to watch the latest cut of our documentary "Here Kitty Kitty" (about whether or not Wisconsin should legalize the shooting of feral cats).
I was running Vegas on a laptop, with an external SATA drive, and set Vegas to use the projector as the preview device. Everything ran without a hiccup, and the footage looked fantastic. We made a couple of changes on the timeline on the fly, took lots of notes, polished off a few cold ones, and watched the bats swoop after the mosquitos. Sure beats editing in my smelly old basement studio.
If you haven't had the pleasure of editing under the stars, give it a whirl. We'll do it again next week, as long as there's no thunderstorms.
I was running Vegas on a laptop, with an external SATA drive, and set Vegas to use the projector as the preview device. Everything ran without a hiccup, and the footage looked fantastic. We made a couple of changes on the timeline on the fly, took lots of notes, polished off a few cold ones, and watched the bats swoop after the mosquitos. Sure beats editing in my smelly old basement studio.
If you haven't had the pleasure of editing under the stars, give it a whirl. We'll do it again next week, as long as there's no thunderstorms.