{"id":1492,"date":"2012-01-22T15:26:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T19:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2012-01-22T15:26:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T19:26:15","slug":"thrilling-tales-the-clockwork-book-trailer-and-my-time-in-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/22\/thrilling-tales-the-clockwork-book-trailer-and-my-time-in-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrilling Tales: The Clockwork Book Trailer, and my time in Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/Clockwork_book_trailer_still.jpg\" alt=\"Still from the Clockwork Book Trailer, almost\" width=\"501\" height=\"391\">\n<div style=\"width:450px;margin-left:25px;margin-top:12px;\">\n<p align=\"left\">Bits that look a lot like this have been dominating the screens of two &#8211; no, it&#8217;s three now! &#8211; computers here in the Secret Laboratory for the past week and a half, as I try to work hard on the book (and Kickstarter) trailer for <a href=\"http:\/\/thrilling-tales.webomator.com\/the-lair-of-the-clockwork-book\/001\"><em>The Lair of the Clockwork Book<\/em><\/a>&#8216;s just-maybe hardcover edition; but in spite of my all my trying I&#8217;ve spent far too much time beating my head against dynamic microphones, USB microphones, Windows 2000, Windows XP 64 <em>and<\/em> 32 bit, buggy audio drivers, mysterious clicking noises, mysterious crashes, and &#8211; it seems &#8211; everything <em>except <\/em>making the spiffiest trailer I can get out of myself, because  my entire computing universe would really rather blow up right about now, thank you, and then have a quick melt down after.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">No, wait: that last part was me.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">It really <em>has<\/em> been like that, especially over the past three days. But I think I&#8217;ve managed to mollify Premiere to the point where it will now crash <em>after<\/em> exporting a movie instead of <em>while <\/em>exporting a movie, and as annoying as that still is it&#8217;s just so very much better that way, isn&#8217;t it? I mean, you actually get the file you were trying to make before the great big explosion happens, so, you know, whew.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Except that Premiere just crashed again. Okay, sorry, gotta go.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bits that look a lot like this have been dominating the screens of two &#8211; no, it&#8217;s three now! &#8211; computers here in the Secret Laboratory for the past week and a half, as I try to work hard on the book (and Kickstarter) trailer for The Lair of the Clockwork Book&#8216;s just-maybe hardcover edition; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thrilling-tales","category-works-in-progress"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}