TAN: Artifacts are not My Friends

Up again at 6:00 a.m. to make more progress with the project. Geoff informs us over breakfast that our solitude will be broken later in the day with the arrival of four Frenchmen and a Frenchwoman. Geoff razes Chantal about finally having someone to talk to in French. She poo-poos him, saying she left France to get away from French people and she comes all the way out here to Tanzania and they still find her.
The Lazy Lagoon sequence is finally at a spot where everyone is all right with it. After a couple of false starts on account of missing media, I get started with the compression. I run through the piece a couple of more time to make sure everything is in as good an order as it can be. Some two and a half hours later I have a video track for the DVD. Oh, for a faster machine. To add injury to the insult of the process taking so long, there are very serious artifacts in a number of spots. This trip we have been plagued by a faulty PAL camera that Mwanga let us borrow. We first noticed trouble with it in Mikumi, but by then it was far to late to do anything about it. Had we noticed it before we got back into Dar es Salaam after our trip to Lazy Lagoon, we might have been able to do something about it.
After writing out another build of the DVD project, I watch it on the TV in the lodge to see how bad the video looks. Four sections warrant fixing. I spend the rest of the evening and on into the early morning, wrestling with the shots in Commotion, Shake and Photoshop. I finally call it quits at 2:30 a.m.