Well, it’s about 4:30 am here, and I’ve got to be up early tomorrow, but am I asleep? nope, I’m writing here, and thank goodness I’m writing this, because that means my day is done, and as soon as I finish writing, I’ll go to bed.

Did you know that Florida can get kind of cold? well, it can, it’s the middle of April, and we’ve got lows in the 30s. Crazy! and I thought we where supposed to worry about global warming…

One of the things I’ll be working on in Pana will likely be filming and editing short video (movie) clips for the ministry to use, either as marketing, or to help get the good news out, that’s the biggest reason I’ve been worrying so much about getting all of my equipment to work together in ways that are beneficial.

Today I was experimenting with capturing footage directly to a hard drive, and skipping the tape stage altogether, unfortunately, there are a few issues posed by this concept; one of them is that the camera shuts itself off after a given amount of time of inactivity, this is designed as a battery saving feature, and for the life of me I can’t figure out a way to turn it off or change the time it takes. The camera still shuts itself down, even when the power cord is plugged in, which is frustrating. The other problem that direct capture poses is the limited hard drive space available for capture.

The reason that direct capture seems so appealing is the relatively limited availability of micro-mv tapes. I can’t find them on the shelves anywhere locally, I certainly can’t expect to find them available in a third world country.

Looks like I better stock up on tapes though, as direct capture seems to have limited functionality at best.