An Earth Shattering Kaboom!
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I was told there would be no good place to see the
big chunk of the Pearmon Bridge come down. Well
that's just like telling me that something can't be done.

See the previous posts for the telling of the tale of the
opening of the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge. In a nutshell,
the old bridges (Grace Memorial, and Silas Pearman)
must be demolished in order to make way for the new
superliner ships that hopefully will come to our port.

Needless to say, I, like hundreds of other Lowcountry
residents, went to Patriot's Point to view the blast.
Thinking I would be better off on the Yorktown, I de-
cided to stay on the ground and BS with some of my
old news friends. The longer I stayed, the more I
realized I made a great decision, because I was 30 feet
from my truck. This made it easy to set up three
cameras to document the historic bridge come down.

Oddly enough, At Will Productions was not hired to
tape this event, so the video is still up for grabs. Can't
wait until the next blast scheduled December 6th.

At Will Joins The Corridor

After Steve deGuzman told me about the Charleston
Digital Corridor, I knew I wanted to meet with Ernest
Andrade. I believe that Ernest has a brilliant idea in
gathering small companies together to make people
aware of the technological goods and services that are
in the Lowcountry.

Ernest was very pleased when I showed him the quality
and speed with which his video could load. Enough so that
he called a meeting. By this time, I had experimented
with new ways to make our video much bigger, and play
more efficiently.

So Mr. Andrade challenged us to put his six minute DVD
on the web. This was a lot tougher than the thirty second
commercial I had finished. Here's the end result. And
Ernest seems very pleased.

Bigger & Better Web Video At Will

The new Flash Player 8 is out for free download, and
it's incredible! At Will Productions has taken video
on the web to the next level, and we're very excited.
Now (if your computer is fast enough) you can watch
high quality video at 720 X 480 resolution, and 30
frames per second, and you don't have to wait for a
download. Files can be opened in your normal internet
browser (Mac or PC) and load almost instantly (less
than three seconds on a bad day.) No more wmv or
quick time movies that take forever to play (and
sometimes don't.)

So I was in the middle of wrapping up loose ends on a
web video I shot, and was so excited, I completely
switched gears.

After I fought a long battle to get my text effects to
play without jagged edges, we put the "new way" to the
test, and re-encoded a video business card for Vince
Perna, of Sandlapper Real Estate. The results were
immediately superior. Thank you Vince for your patience.

"Well that's a mighty fine story Uncle Joe, but show me."
Ok, take a look at this. Now I'm pumping out web video
that's so big & clean that they're almost mp4 quality. So
what's next? Now I'm looking for a hi-def client. If it looks
this good at 720 X 480, how's 1080 going to look? Very
exciting times.