Building a boat in my spare time

Well, sometimes some people ask me what the heck I do when I'm not building tons of flash and FMS stuff. So I thought I'd post a few interesting things that I do that also tie into the flash and FMS stuff :D

One of the things I'm doing is helping a friend build a 26' wooden boat. It's a catboat actually. I've gone ahead and put up a blog about it and been posting in it for the last couple of months.

http://www.periwinklecatboat.com/index.cfm

This blog currently runs on Coldfusion 7 by way of Ray Camden's CFC Blog. Thanks Ray for making such a great blog program. It certainly serves it's purposes for what we need.

The video was all done with one of my video cameras, a Sony TRV-30, and then pulled into Premiere 2.0 where I added the title then off to After Effects 7 to add any effects and the captioning. I thought about doing the captioning with Flash, but decided a more graphic approach looked better. In the case that I wanted to put the videos on a DVD the captioning is now done too.

The video player is of course done with Photoshop and Flash. Unfortunately due to lack of connection count I can't put the FLV's on FMS, so that is progressive, works fine though.

Anyways, building a boat is a pretty cool thing to get into I think, but not something I might start from scratch myself.

So if you are interested in wooden boats and boat building or even what the heck I am up to in my spare time, then head on over and check it out. Lots of information and good fun.

Posted by Graeme at June 7, 2007 03:24 PM