2012 Personal Projects during Summer Break

Because I've completely dropped everything and make it the main priority, I've realized that I treat my exams for uni as projects.

Projects are essentially pretty boring unless you approach it as an artisen and give it the attention to detail so that the resultant quality is such that when you step back and observe the finished product you are in awe of what you have achieved.

This summer break I will undertake the following personal projects.

Project 1: Edit and upload the videos that I've shot from the Gold Coast Shorinji Kempo training camp to our secret facebook group. This project has been completed on Monday, 26 November at 1:30 am and it took 3 days to do.
Status: Completed


Project 2:Take the edited video files and create DVDs for distribution. The distribution method to look into is to upload the .iso files onto Google Drive and allow everyone else to download and burn their own DVD. This is much cheaper and a less labour instensive method than burning the DVDs myself and in some cases mail them out overseas to New Zealand or Japan.
This project is due to be completed Tuesday, 27 November and will take about 3-4 days.

Lessons Learnt:
Since the image file was not saved as a .iso file on iDVD, the .img file can be converted in Disk Utility by right-clicking the .img file and select  Convert. Change the image format to DVD/CD Master and rename if desired. Disk utility will create a .cdr file, changing the name to .iso will make it a .iso file.

You can add different background music for each menu, however a "Too much motion in Menu"  error on iDVD may come up when you try to burn:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1756929?start=0&tstart=0

This was resolved by using shorter music clips

 Structure of dvd 2

Final Product

Status: in Progress
Need to upload .iso Google drive to do on Saturday and Sunday when I'm not home

Project 3: Learn to compile my own Linux from: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/  
Status: Pending

Project 4: Install Arch Linux & rtorrent on my computer that is used mainly for torrenting. This will be a low powered consumption install as the computer tends to overheat and shutdown often.
Status: Pending

Project 5: Database & Webserver project
Status: Planned