Friday 1 November 2013

The year is over...official

Well it is finally on sale! Three disks, four hours and forty minutes... an epic.


I've been working away at this for some weeks now, making sure all the captions make sense and are spelled right and that I've fitted as much material onto the three disks as is possible. Disks 1 and 2 are 99% full and disk 3 is 96% so I couldn't have crammed much more on.

This is the introduction - it settles down a bit after this


As I type this the prototype Bluray is burning in the computer.

 
This will be our first Bluray so it has been a bit of journey of discovery. They come in 2 sizes, 25 GB and 50GB and I have completely filled the 50 GB one. I've had to leave out a few of the less exciting chapters and the extras but it still times out at about 4hours and 30 minutes so that should keep people satisfied. The bland disks are much more expensive than DVDs so it will cost more than the DVD set, I haven't settled on a final price yet. We don't have a Bluray player in the building and I don't have one at home but the plan is to upgrade the shop TV in the spring.
 
Last week I went out for a ride on the WHR between rain showers to get some footage of the autumn colours in the landscape and the Glaslyn in full spate in the pass. It was very pretty and so I've put up a package that I quickly edited on YouTube.
 

The camera set up in the open carriage