"It didn't help."

That said, it is a really cool idea for an episode.

Premiere isn't the greatest thing in the world at exporting. FCP is amazing at it, as is Vegas... as a Premiere guy, I feel your pain.

Honestly, what I tend to do is finish my edit and then import the Premiere project into After Effects to render.

Exporting at a highish quality and then opening it in Quicktime Pro (thirty bucks, if you don't have a license or a way of getting one) gives you all the export options in the world for compressing and keeping your quality.

HE RALLIES

Here's a full update of my status, and where this is going.

Up until now: So, one night, we decided to do another thing. Ideas were tossed around, I think it was me who finally said "holy shit, let's do a giant road trip with everyone on the forum!" Everyone looked at me funny, but either I'm persuasive or I just do shit without people's approval. Either way.

Everyone - literally everyone - came through on the filming thing, and we got that done in just under two months. Then it came down to me to cut the thing together, and as we all know, that's where things slowed down a bit.

As of now, I have about eight of an estimated fourteen minutes edited. (It's a rather involved process, and there's a lot of it.) Previously, I was employed, and could only work on it in three hour chunks in the evenings when I had energy and free time.

Now, I am unemployed. This is generally good news for the road trip, with a catch: before I'm going to work on the road trip again, I need to get my demo reel assembled. Before I get my demo reel assembled, I need to finish one major demo reel piece I'm doing just to have something really cool to cherry-on-top the reel with. Once that's done, the reel will come together pretty quick. Once the reel is done, I'll have time to work on the road trip.

By my estimate, that should be within the week.

As for how much longer until the road trip is done with... I really can't speculate, as all my previous speculations have been off. I'm basically Nostradamus over here.

Full disclosure, I know that nobody's waiting with bated breath for this thing and I'm not causing anyone agony by making them wait, but I also know I'm responsible for something a whole lot of people put their time and interest into, and causing a delay is something I feel bad about. Sorry. Sorry, sorry, sorry. I promise, this thing is really coming, and it really is going to be just as stupid and amusing as I've been saying it will. In the mean time, you should hope that I'm an awesome VFX artist and I can knock out this big-ass shot pretty quick (and my wee little computer can handle all these big-ass render passes), so we can all come together and laugh at Dave's acting.

His acting is fine.

I mean, we'll laugh, but.

No, it's fine, really. He did good.

Well.

Anyway, the road trip is coming, and though this project might have been a large bite, I dare say it's not one that's too big to chew.

Good review! Thanks!

Sexy.

My buddy made that.

Pft. No problem.

I don't think there's much in BB to spoil for this community, I'm just a nerd for consistency.

Holy shit.

It took me a second to realize that you didn't mean just podcasts there.

JOHN! WE SUCK! YEAH! *high five* BOOM BABY!

Good point, I hadn't even thought of casting.

Sorry guys. I promise you I'm working on it and it's getting there, it's just a bigger undertaking than I expected or warned about going in. Lots of logging and transcoding and, well, editing. There's a lot of footage here.

I'm still in the part of the tunnel where I can see the light, we're not quite in the home stretch, but close.