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Postby Songbird21 » Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:00 pm

rose4emily wrote:SONG:

I'm thinking the narrative should be just that four-line Jimi Hendrix quote out of the song lyrics. There isn't much more that I have to say about the video that wouldn't make the narrative unduly long, so I think doing a really simple and quick lead-in would be appropriate.
Um...what lyrics? Lol. I haven't read them.
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Postby jasper-isis » Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:32 pm

rose4emily wrote:I'm not worried about the "Duplicate Account" thing. The account really is for the group, rather than a duplicate created as a sockpuppet for some individual who got kicked off of the forums or wants to pump up his own opinions ratings. I do think it's important to not lump the project in with my account - since I think it'd suffer from the association.


Well, there is the collaboration system, which all multieditor projects are encouraged to use these days. And recently I've suggested that the site's coders add a nice "et al." after the "anchor" username on various pages with lists of videos. With the influx of multieditor projects now, I don't think it'll be too long before it is implemented.

And uh, I don't know what you're talking about when you say "I think it'd suffer from the association." :P Every video has its own bumper with its creator's name anyways.
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Postby rose4emily » Wed Apr 06, 2005 4:47 am

These song lyrics:

Jimi Hendrix wrote:Strange beautiful grass of green,
With your majestic silver seas
Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer
May I land my kinky machine?


I'm not sure how well Hendrix will translate to a red-haired female anime character with a faux-Anglo accent and an unnaturally straight and still posture, but it'd be a great quick intro if you think you can pull it off.

If you'd like to hear the phrasing, check the song "Third Stone from the Sun". I can e-mail you a copy, if you don't have one.

If these four lines refuse to work, I'll try re-writing the (excessively lengthy) original narrative/intro for this piece to bring it to a reasonable duration.

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Jasper, what I mean by the "suffer by association" is that it'd be at the bottom of a list consisting primarily of very bad videos, with a couple of well-intentioned but technically mediocre ones adding variety to the list. I, unlike you, wasn't talented or patient enough to nail it on my very first video - instead I went through, like, 1337 of the things before finally getting it right (on the second try, at that).
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Postby jasper-isis » Wed Apr 06, 2005 11:14 am

rose4emily wrote:Jasper, what I mean by the "suffer by association" is that it'd be at the bottom of a list consisting primarily of very bad videos, with a couple of well-intentioned but technically mediocre ones adding variety to the list. I, unlike you, wasn't talented or patient enough to nail it on my very first video - instead I went through, like, 1337 of the things before finally getting it right (on the second try, at that).

Well, if you insist to look at it that way, then also consider this: the project will also be listed under the profiles of bakadeshi, Otohiko, pen-pen, ooshna, songbird, downwithpants, azraver1022, anubisx00, and yours truly. I really don't think that there will be any problems with association here. :wink:

A separate account, on the other hand, might actually create some confusion about who the creators are.
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Postby Otohiko » Wed Apr 06, 2005 12:58 pm

Personally, I wouldn't mind either way - and I don't think people would very much, either. An instrumentality account would keep things a little more neat, an editor-by-editor collab listing would keep things a little more complete.
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Postby rose4emily » Wed Apr 06, 2005 9:58 pm

So, wait...

When we do the "collab" thing, I know the extra names show up and the video info pages link to our profiles, but...

Does it also put the video under each of our profiles, instead of just the profile of whoever uploaded it?

If so, then that would be just fine.
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Postby jasper-isis » Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:05 pm

rose4emily wrote:So, wait...

When we do the "collab" thing, I know the extra names show up and the video info pages link to our profiles, but...

Does it also put the video under each of our profiles, instead of just the profile of whoever uploaded it?

If so, then that would be just fine.

Yup. Check out the info page and links of recently-released Project REM Sleep for an example.
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Postby Kalium » Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:06 pm

rose4emily wrote:So, wait...

When we do the "collab" thing, I know the extra names show up and the video info pages link to our profiles, but...

Does it also put the video under each of our profiles, instead of just the profile of whoever uploaded it?

If so, then that would be just fine.

Yes. That's what it does.
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Postby Songbird21 » Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:42 pm

rose4emily wrote:These song lyrics:

Jimi Hendrix wrote:Strange beautiful grass of green,
With your majestic silver seas
Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer
May I land my kinky machine?
Do you want them spoken or sung? I prolly know the answer, but I'd rather avoid any mistakes.
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Postby rose4emily » Fri Apr 08, 2005 11:43 am

Spoken, not stirred.

Even Jimi didn't really sing them in the first place. Envision a coffee-shoppe poet, and you probably will have the right idea.
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Postby rose4emily » Tue Apr 12, 2005 10:30 pm

BTW, Song, the e-mail address I actually check on a regular basis is:

christian D07 paro /\T gmail |)0T com (sans spam-repellant notation).
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Postby jasper-isis » Mon Apr 18, 2005 6:56 pm

Hey, hope we're close to the end now.

I'll be lying low because AP week is getting frightfully close :neutral:, but definitely notify me before you release so I can clear out all the other banners in my sig for this project. Puhehe. :P

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Just for the heck of it, I'm going to throw out a couple of ideas, all of them Instrumentality-related.

Instrumentality: Electronica
Instrumentality: Percussion
Instrumentality: Solos Only
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A Capella: the Anti-Instrumentality :twisted:
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Postby rose4emily » Thu Apr 21, 2005 12:14 am

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


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.
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Postby Songbird21 » Thu Apr 21, 2005 1:48 am

rose4emily wrote:Still waiting on the last narrative.
You're kidding...right? Try one of the email addies you don't check regularly. It might be there. I had problems with the email addy you gave me so I got a dif one from Chris. Please lemme know. If it's missing it means I hafta do it over again.
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Postby rose4emily » Wed Apr 27, 2005 3:28 pm

Song:

I just checked my old Comcast account, and found the narrative (buried under 164 spam messages - hence my not using that e-mail any more).

Thanks.
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