By stevo on 3/24/2010 11:29 AM

Lori and I just wrapped recording CCFC #048.  Here's what to expect...

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By stevo on 11/11/2009 11:14 PM

We recorded Tuesday, post-production got interrupted Wednesday. Thursday, you'll agree it was worth the wait!

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By stevo on 10/21/2009 3:03 PM

It's done, it's posted, it's CC Funcast #040 and you can listen to it right now!!!

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By stevo on 4/25/2009 9:27 AM

 

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By stevo on 4/9/2009 5:28 PM

Here's me wrapping up post production on the new podcast!!!  Look for it sometime tonight (here's hopin')

By stevo on 4/8/2009 2:18 PM

Just for the "FYI" dept.:

Two new summer specials currently slated to air Mother's Day weekend and Father's Day weekend, have been recorded and are in the beginning stages of post-production this very minute!!!

So, you won't have to wait all the way to next Fall to hear new Gilead after all!!!  Please pray for Joe and Cal as deadlines are tight on these!

We pulled guest writer, Kathy Buchannan in on these, the actors had loads of fun with them, and we think you're really going to enjoy some lighter Gilead fare for your Summer!  More news to come...

By stevo on 5/8/2008 12:40 PM

Well, we've ended Season 10--the recording part of it, anyway!  We still have to do all the editing, sound design, music, mixing, mastering, mailing, etc.  If you listened to the last Coleraine Connection Funcast, you're probably here looking for pictures of the session as I promised.  Well, I guess I should have taken a look at them before I made that promise.  There weren't any taken of the whole huge group of people that I was expecting.  But there are a few I can share...

Who's foot is that in the foreground?  (hint: it's not a Morrison)

Wow, something is REALLY funny!

Jill, Roger, Nate... and who got stuck in that little room?!?

By stevo on 2/1/2008 1:13 PM

We finally got pictures back from UPS of our server.  This one is of the front cover and shows the most damage, although there are others that show some of the damage inside.  Anyway, progress is being made (very slowly) on getting a settlement from UPS to pay for the new server.  In the meantime, thanks to God and many of our listeners making some very generous year-end gifts, we were able to go ahead and order the new server from Fairlight, so that they could get started on putting it together.  That turned out to be a wise decision on the part of Mrs. Ritchie, because if we had to wait until UPS pays up, it might not be until we're going into season 27!!!  Seriously, we should have the new server in place by the middle of next week (PTL!!).

Now, with regards to the Valentines Day special... again, thanks to some big year-end giving, and God working out the details, we were able to outsource...

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By stevo on 1/7/2008 12:33 PM

Hey everybody.  Long time, it seems, since I posted an entry here.  Well, I guess the holidays can have a tendency to create a lot of busyness.  Actually, I don't feel like we were especially busy this year, just more comitted than ever before NOT to take myself away from the family in order to do work.   

So, now we're back into the swing of things and need to ask you to pray for our equipment issues again.  Some of you may remember how towards the end of season 9 we were experiencing trouble with the digital editing and post-production system: Fairlight.  Well, thankfully, we were able to hobble to the end of the season and through the 2 holiday specials we had planned for the end of the year, and ordered new parts and software to get the system back up and running.  In the process, it was determined that the big, central computer that ties all the parts of the system together (the server) would...

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By stevo on 11/13/2007 10:11 AM

Oh, the Joy... So, our audio editing system (Fairlight) has been a real stable, rock-solid platform for producing Gilead almost since the beginning of the series back in 2001.  But (as computer systems go), she's getting kinda old, and this season has been riddled with crashes and system failures such as we have never seen since we began.  Our plan was to try to limp along through Season 9 until we had a little down time to address the problems and get some much needed upgrades.  But, oh yeah, we're producing 2 holiday specials this year...

No problem, what harm could come from trying to do just 2 more shows?  Well, because of having to nurse Fairlight so much, we've been seriously delayed on getting the Thanksgiving special done, BUT I am happy to report that it was completed yesterday and is on it's way out the door to stations today!  (none too...

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