Jasper-Isis wrote:A Capella: the Anti-Instrumentality

Priceless.
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AP Week - ah the memories...
They're actually not that bad, once you've finished them. You'll want to spend the next week sleeping, but most people I know have also found that they're scores are better than they thought when they walked out of the tests (that's certainly how it worked for me). For someone as bright as you, they should be no problem.
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Still waiting on the last narrative. That's okay, though, since I'm also engulfed in a pretty tight crunch time in my academic work - so I really wouldn't be able to work on this all too much right now anyhow.
Last weekend I found a Java program for lip-synching that was a lot like mine - but with a GUI and ability to match phoenemes rather than just going on volume levels (more or less what I proposed earlier as the "proper" way to do what my scripts provided a kludgy version of). Haven't tested it yet, but I might end up using that when I re-generate the existing narrative video and produce the narrative video segments that I haven't done yet.
I've also worked out a pretty simple concept for the widescreen narratives that'll give that part more "dimension" with multiple angles (a close-up on speaker, long view of stage with projected screen behind it, shot from behind speaker looking on audience...). Won't add much at all to editing time, but should keep the viewer from tiring of the perpetual talking head (after having seen quite a bit of that already). When editing it, I can generate the close-up for the full narrative, and the "screen" for the full narrative, and so forth - and then cut them together as though they were redundant footage from multiple cameras on one live speach, which is actually a lot easier than trying to do it all as a sequence of segments.
Still haven't recompiled my kernel to support the really huge file that I'm going to need when doing the join. That on its own shouldn't take more than twenty minutes of my time, and an hour of my computer's time, but I want to wait to do it until I have large enough a block of free time to fix it if I manage to screw something up. RIT's not a place where you can go for very long without your computer in full working order (though, given the nice weather over the past two days, I really wish it was).
I
have cleared out a sufficient amount of disk space for the really huge file. Good thing I finally got my DVD burner working a while back, though I also cleared out about 40 gigs of .vob files from DVDs I own and have sitting along the back edge of my desk. I tend to copy the VOBs to my computer to play them (don't like the drive noise, and MPlayer sometimes crashes when I'm deinterlacing and try to skip forward or back on the physical disk), and then forget to delete them when I'm done. A little foolish, really.
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If it's a while before I next post here, that's because I'm already over my head trying to keep up with a number of other things. That, and I owe my sister a letter (unless her having sent one with return postage somehow
wasn't a hint). Or at least a phone call. It's been too long since I've talked to her, so that's what I'll be doing the next time I have a free hour sometime before midnight.