Well, first things first. I obviously haven't written anything new. At all. That's not to say I don't have ideas - I do - and that's not to say I haven't started any - I have - but I'm just too lazy. I'll stop procrastinating tomorrow.

On another front, though, I've been making interesting progress. Using the shiny new torrent client that my campus was blocking all year, I got a nice HD torrent of the 1971 WWatCF movie. The good news is that the quality is incredible. The bad news is that the quality is incredible for the whole movie, and it's a big effing file. My current mission is to find a free video editing program to trim off the excess, which is everything but five minutes or so of the movie.

I started with an HD .mkv file, which I got into an HD .mp4 file without too much trouble. However, my Windows Movie Maker (which can do the job) doesn't like .mkv or .mp4 files, which leads me to find another converter to get it into .avi format. However, the converters I've tried so far have greatly reduced the quality so that I might as well download a Youtube file. I've clipped the low-quality .avi already, so I know that the next steps work as well. It's just a matter of finding the right converter, which shouldn't take me too long.

This started out as just a project for my own enjoyment, but hopefully once I figure this first clip out and how to share it, I can apply the same process to other HD videos that community members might be interested in. I'll update this journal again if I'm successful, so wish me luck!