Official .org Video Horror Stories

NME · Post by **NME** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 12:37 am

ASSIMILATION OF IDIOTS IS INEVITABLE!
At least we tried.

Brad · Post by **Brad** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 12:48 am

My story is more of a story of personal stupidity rather than horror with a program and such.

I was working on a GotF video. I had put about 20+ hours into it and was around halfway done, and it was look phenomenal. And then, I editted another 10 seconds or so, and it just looked horrible and badly planned.

And so, I say to myself "Ugh! I am just not feeling this!" and instead of just going back and taking out the part I had done and didn't like, I decide on a whim to just delete the entire project, source and all.

o_O

GOOD IDEA ASSHAT >_<

And it was really good too :\ At least I thought so. I've been meaning to go back and re-do it.. But I probably won't.

danielwang · Post by **danielwang** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 12:54 am

AtomX wrote: And so, I say to myself "Ugh! I am just not feeling this!" and instead of just going back and taking out the part I had done and didn't like, I decide on a whim to just delete the entire project, source and all.

I do that with Macromedia Flash.
The good thing is, though, that Flash stored all of your changes up to a certain point and allows tracking of multiple file versions easily.

So in short, what do I do?

"OMG I F***ed up my project Royally!"

^Z ^Z ^Z ^Z ^Z ^Z

^S Saved as InteractiveSchoolBombThreat.rev144.fla

^Z ^Z ^Z ^Z ^Z

^S Saved as InteractiveSchoolBombThreat.rev143.fla

AltF4 Don't save changes

ErMaC · Post by **ErMaC** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 3:18 am

DJ_Izumi wrote:
ErMaC wrote:Bah, your render times ain't got NOTHING on my worst. Try using particle effects and rendering 56000 particles at once.

28 frames took TEN HOURS. That's more than 20 minutes a frame. All for less than a second of video.
All that to render your rip of the Windows 3.1 Starfield Screensaver for the ErMaC logo on all you videos, eh? *snicker*

No that took 3 minutes. This is far more complicated and is in the video I'm currently working on, and is not any sort of star effect. I have far better filters for that now

Vancore · Post by **Vancore** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 4:37 am

My horror story of is how I had to deal with a faulty Premiere 5.1 that kept crashing on me every 1 - 6 mins and had to redo parts countless times over for around 3 months. Then, just when I thought I was safe and I was on a roll with editing, it crashes again.
I also recount doing the video over and over again because of certain things. I think my mind went on strike with frustration at some point so I don't remember a lot from those times.
I'm just glad I have something stable now and have sort of a good encoding system going.

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 11:48 am

I used to hear stories of people's 160 x 120 videos taking 3 days to render.