Shiney, shiney computer....

Third day on the job. Things are going pretty well, even though I haven't even touched any VFX shots yet. My first two days wre spent overhauling their 'filing' system. Shots weren't even all in one folder, let alone sorted into their proper episodes. I did a lot of searching around, trying to find lost scenes spread between 10 computers and 8 external drives.

But, did I mention the sweet set-up I've got?

I am currently writing this post from a 23" widescreen monitor. It's freaking huge! It's literally an effort to drag something from one side of the screen to the other. I love it!! The lovely, lovely flastscreen monitor is hooked to an equally lovely Mac G5, with some ungodly amount of processing power. That, in turn, is connected up to a shiney Wacom tablet and an array of 8 hard drives, 320 GB each, that contain all of the raw scene files for the show.

Which explains why it was so hard to get all the files in one place. Only three of them should theoretically be in use, one for each of the first two episodes, which are nearly fully shot, and one for the remaining three episodes, which ony have scattered shots done. All eight of them were in use, and it took some wrangling to sort through the mess that was scattered across them. But, all my shots are now accounted for, which means I may actually be able to do some VFX work today. Here's hoping!!