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Back from vacation. Spent Monday reviewing the e-mails, phone messages and packages that arrived during my absence, as well as ones from before I went away. As producer of various projects, one job has been planning some upcoming shoots.

Also spent some time Monday rebuilding a colleague's corrupt Encore DVD project (Encore CS3 has some sweet improvements over CS2, such as being stable, but still get some unknown errors.) Also made a cutdown DVD from alonger video for a client, put a time coded video online for another project and packed my gear for Tuesday's shoot.

Tuesday's shoot was to kickoff a new project about OB/GYN careers. The first shoot had us innterviewing several physicians, a medical student and shooting some clinical scenarios including an ultrasound exam on a mother expecting twins! The project is akin to a documentary, in that we are shooting as much as possible in several institutions, based upon our treatment, a predetermined list of questions, on the spot follow-up questions and brainstorming, then tying it all together with narration, still photos and music. Should be exciting and today was a great start.

My company, Video 7 Production Company, Inc., was started by my husband and me in 1997. We specialize in video and other media production for businesses.

Hi everyone - I've been pretty silent for the last few months because I've been hard at work on a new Creative Cow Master Series DVD - "Internet Killed the Video Star: A guide to Creating Video for the Web." The 4.5 hour DVD will be available very shortly. Feel free to spread the word.

Here's the basic description of the DVD:

This portion of my three-part catch-up blogs focuses on the audio portion of my music video project.

I have read many tutorials and seen just about every podcast on how to lip-sync animation to audio in After Effects. Alas, after much trial and error, none of those methods worked. It wasn't until I got a response on Adobe's Audition forums, that I was given a somewhat workable solution.

What I wanted to do is have the main beat to the song be the rhythm to the video. And to be over-literal, have a clock ticking to the beat.

As most After Effects users know, After Effects isn't the best audio tool.

So a recent thread in the Creative Cow Final Cut Pro forum about Internal vs. External RAID's got me thinking more about the subject. I'm a firm believer in external RAID's and really don't have any desire to install 3 or 4 drives inside my Mac Pro tower.