The first stop of my 3 country trip to do some documentary work! The video is embedded below. I’m flying to KL tomorrow afternoon so I won’t be updating again for a few days probably. Hope you enjoy this one.

I think I also finally kicked the whole jet lag thing. For the last two nights, I’ve been hitting a wall at 7:30pm. Kind of obnoxious…annoying really. Tonight’s the first night I made it! WOOT! Bout time and I really got to enjoy Manila a bit more today. This city is a trip. I can definitely see the appeal.

I spent yesterday transcoding and editing. Several crashes. Such is life. Today was back out with the camera and some shopping. Tomorrow, more camera and then the flight out. Going to pull in the stuff from today and do a bit more transcoding overnight and get my stuff packed.

Doc Production Stop One: Manila from J.R. Friesen on Vimeo.

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Leadership Module Wrap – Vlog from J.R. Friesen on Vimeo.

Finally, I’ve been exporting DVD’s all day so the content producers can sift through all the sessions. 14 at about 1.5 hours a piece. Aside from being rather annoyed that the digital clips from the Firestore (HVX-200) and CF cards (HVR-Z7U) didn’t contain any of the timecode information, it went smoothly.

As we ingested footage and renamed files, we watched a bit of Doctor Who, drank lots of coffee and enjoyed what were some very long days behind the camera.

I fly to Manila on Wednesday. I’ll be full up with these DVD renders until then. I have to pack quite a bit of stuff for this trip. On the one hand, I’m stoked and on the other, I’m freaking out. I don’t have nearly the prep I want going into this, but at the same time with the productions being unscripted, you can only prepare so much. I just don’t want to forget batteries or something…

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Leadership Module Production – Vlog from J.R. Friesen on Vimeo..

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