Austin/San Antonio, Texas based digital film maker, animator and motion graphics editor.
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A visit to DARKSIDE PIZZA in Boerne, Texas. May 21, 2025.
Its a pretty good pizzeria in Boerne, Texas, a country down outside of San Antonio, Texas.
What makes it distinctive is that it is decorated as a tribute to 1980’s pop culture. Mannequins of the ET characters on BMX bikes, a Christopher Reeve Superman, and LOTs of totally amazing Star Wars stuff!
I shot this with an Apple iPhone and edited with Adobe Premiere Rush.
No, I don’t work there and this isn’t an ad. I just really dug this place!
I did NOT do the actual book cover design. I downloaded the book cover artwork off of Amazon.com and cut it up into layers in Adobe Photoshop.
I mainly used the bezier pen tool to isolate the objects into layers. Some of the letter were isolated with Photoshop’s “Magic Wand” tool and other I just typed in using the IMPACT font ( heavily modified through scaling and kerning).
I imported the Adobe Photoshop (dot PSD) file into Adobe After Effects and animated them.
This piece of motion graphics may be used in a future podcast.
I am against colorization on general principle BUT! Some of the surviving cast and crew of the old laurel and hardy movie “March of the Wooden Soldiers” ( aka “babes in Ryland”) said they WANTED that movie colorized! That the original set was in bright gorgeous colors and should have been seen in color.
They did a colorized version in the 1980’s but I think they could do a much better job today. Make a 4k transfer of the original and make both the color and B&W versions available.
A while back I posted on here for advice on how to save a project that had its audio recorded “Too Hot”
I had an iphone lav mike plugged into MY iphone. I record sound this way all the time and it sounds great. The client said “why not use MY iphone so I can keep the audio files myself?”
I saw no harm in this. I have done THAT before, using the grooms iphone to record the vows at the wedding etc, and its always sounded good.
Murphys Law, this clients phone recorded way too high/ too hot. I have no idea what the difference was. I have reseached changing the audio level while recording with the iPhones “Voice Memo” app, and I have found no way to change the record level.
Something must have gone wrong with his particular phone. Using the same mike on MY iphone produced good results.
I tried just pushing the levels down, but the audio still sounded over modulated. A lot of people on this forum recommended I buy and use “Isotope RX”
That seemed too expensive to buy for just one project. I tried fixing it myself by experimenting with Adobe Premieres “essential sound filters”
In some cases I tried fixing/bringing down the lav mike audio
In other cases I tried dropping the lav track and just bringing up the camera sound ….
The sound was improved but still not professional quality. And some of it sounded too warped and robotic ( but maybe I just don’t know the right way to use it?).
The last time I posted about this, I got several offers from people who felt they could fix the sound. But I got distracted by other projects and didn’t keep their names/contact info.
So let me repeat my old offer/request…
Is there anyone here is an experienced user of Isotope RX ( or equivalent software ) and can fix my bad audio clips and give my client professional results? And if so, what would you charge?
Here is my webpage that has the “problem child” clips:
This is the “Concrete Abuttment” scene, with all studio recorded voice over and no footage of you. I recorded it myself to give you an idea of what it would be like with all studio audio. Of course, the final version would be all your voice.
One claim of conspiracy theorists is that the motorade route was deliberately moved to ensure that the Presidents car went down Elm street (underneath the depository) instead of Main Street Here, as you can see, that is not possible, because of the concrete abuttment between the two streets This is Main Street here Over here is Elm Street Today, as in 1963, it is physically impossible to do that. The only way to get to Stemmons freeway to the Trade Mart again was to go down Elm Street. And now you know the rest of the story. More stories on the assassination, and the events leading up to it, in my latest book, Countdown to Dallas, Available everywhere books are sold. There is also a Countdown to Dallas Podcast produced by Evergreen Podcasting that is also available everywhere.
(NOTE: do you want to change that last line to list a specific URL or place to get the podcast? Put a website name/URL on screen?)
This is the same scene with enhanced audio. It still sounds a little “Off” ( warbly and robotic)
I am thinking I take the studio sound and cut it up to match your mouth movements ( luckily most of this doesn’t show your mouth too much ( you turn away from the camera several times). Perhaps you could watch this video with your ear buds in to help you synch up/ say the words the same way.) OR I might do a combination of studio sound and the enhanced natural sound.
Both versions of the Parade Route scene together. Note the “street sign” graphics I added over MAIN STREET and ELM STREET.
The Pink Pillbox hat story.
(Keep watching after the ending, there are TWO versions in this clip)
Jackies Pink Pillbox Hat
Paul, inside the infield: “One of the great mysteries of the Kennedy Assassination actually concerns an article of clothing, We know that the famous pink and strawberry suit that Jacqueline Kennedy wore that day is today – it’s in the National Archives in Maryland. But, the Crown jewel of that outfit, the Pink pillbox hat, Where is that hat? We know that on the ride to the hospital, Jacqueline tore the hat off, flung it to the floor of the car, taking a tuft of her hair with it. It was then handled or seen by a couple of people, but the hat today remains missing one of the great enduring mysteries of November 22nd, 1963.”
RUNNING UP THE KNOLL
Photos and Images taken moments after the assassination showed people running up this… small hill on the North Side of Dealey Plaza Which would soon and forever be known as, The Grassy Knoll. (I am assuming more goes here, but what?) And now you know the rest of the story There are more stories, by the way, about the assassination in my latest book Countdown to Dallas
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The Man Hole Cover (Note there is a gap here where I think you planned to talk more about the manhole cover, but you never did. I improvised what I THOUGHT you might say based on what I learned from the Posner/Bugliosi books. Of course I am sure you are going to want to re-write it.)
Some conspiracy theorists even say there was a gunman in this sewer here Which was right in front of Elm Street. The problem is that the only way in was by removing this heavy manhole cover. There was no other way out. Making getting IN to the opening without being seen almost impossible, and getting out of it after the assassination absolutley impossible. And even if someone could get inside, it was only 3 feet deep, making it impossible for an average sized person to fit inside. Which is all irrelevant because even if an assassin of well below average height somehow got IN to the hole, the angle was far too low to get a shot off at President Kennedy. Almost impossible to get into, impossible to get out of, and impossible to shoot the president from. And now you know the rest of the story There are more stories, by the way, about the assassination in my latest book Countdown to Dallas
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