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Three hundred fifty sixth entry - and one more thing
2007-08-07 17:27:31
Time - 4:25, Noise - hum of the compy
As an addition to my previous entry, this just showed up as the new vid on the block. It's really cute if you're a Tsubasa Kuro/Fai fan. :up:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?v=148599
See you, folks. ;p
- Jen -
Three hundred fifty fifth entry - swinging, swinging, like a water balloon~~~~!
2007-08-07 17:00:05
Time - 2:58, Noise - Red - "Already Over, Pt. 2"
Ergh. I'd love to install the new AMV app, except that I always seem to be in the middle of a project. I don't really see how it could hurt me because of the way I edit (making lossless clips and ditching the .vobs, .d2vs - or in the case of videogames, .pss's, .m2vs and whatnot), but you never know. Installing anything can fuck up your video, really. I'll have to wait until I'm finished with my FMV segment before I try to do that. Besides, I'd also like to do a defrag, and I won't have enough space for that until after I delete all of those Oni 4 clips. 46 gigs WTF. Clearly those clips take up WAY more space than I thought they did. I guess that means that the three Fatal Frame games are going to occupy that space eventually.
Oooh, so on Thursday, I'm getting my first haircut in over a year. I chopped off fourteen inches just after my first ACen. Some commercial about cancer patients and donating hair caught my eye, so on a whim, I decided to cut it and do just that. It's the shortest I've ever had my hair - and I still had enough to go past my shoulders. So anyway, I'm trying to grow it out again, along with my bangs, and maybe in another year I'll get it styled in some way. For now, I'm just going in for a trim.
I can hardly believe that I have less than a month left before I start my junior year of college. I don't feel that old yet. Don't get me wrong. I'm looking forward to my classes this year. It just feels like it's coming at me too quickly - and having to settle into having a roommate for the first time in a year and a half isn't going to make things any easier. I'm setting up a bank account over in Platteville as well, since not having a car means I'm essentially never coming home. I think of my dorm room as my second home, really, but I don't like the idea of setting up to live there for several months and never visiting here at home at all.
Oh, that's right... random good video:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?vid_id=148528
You'll probably just think it's a typical angsty Saikano video, but I like it. Oh, but do me a favor: if you watch it, try to leave a quick comment or some comments in the forum. When I pimp these random videos, I'm kind of doing it to encourage the creators who did such a good job on them. That doesn't work very well if nobody says anything about the videos that I pimp. Food for thought.
So like... I read this fanfic that I really enjoyed the concept of, but the person needed a lot of work on her grammar, formatting, and a few stylistic things. I always wonder: what do you say to those people? I want to leave an extensive review regarding those things, but it seems like all fanfic authors nowadays take any critical thoughts about their stories as flames or attacks. I really hate spending time writing up something like that if I'm just going to be brushed off.
It's like a few editors on this site. I simply refuse to op a few certain people anymore because every op I leave, they retort EVERY SINGLE THING I SAY. This isn't just a one-time occurrence, either. I've opped several videos for two people in specific, and they've done that with every opinion I've left. I mean, yeah - an opinion is called an opinion for a reason. But nobody's video is perfect, for crying out loud! You can't argue every single thing I say to you! What's the point of asking for opinions if that's what you're going to do? I feel like those are the people who just want the number scores and not any feedback.
In any case, I don't leave a lot of opinions anymore. I used to randomly do it fairly often, but most people barely respond to what I say anymore, so it's a bit discouraging. Speaking of which, I still owe one op that I promised. I said I'd get to that a few days ago, but I never did. I got distracted taking care of the dogs.
I have some FMV stuff to take care of today, and hopefully that's everything.
See you, folks.
- Jen -
Three hundred fifty fourth entry - yer kiddin' me...
2007-08-06 00:57:19
Time - 11:51, Noise - Red - "Already Over"
I don't usually respond to other journals, but...
@Kikai - that is SUCH bullshit. I feel really bad for you, love. I love writing, and if anyone EVER tried to tell me that my work was stolen, I'd knock their teeth out! And I live in the *North*! ;P You definitely need to retort against that, but remain level-headed at all costs. They'll just have more crappy stereotypical "angry Southerner" evidence to throw in your face if you go apeshit on them. But otherwise... go get 'em. >:3
- Jen -
Three hundred fifty third entry - Sweet Relief!
2007-08-05 16:58:18
Time - 2:14, Noise - Red - "Break Me Down"
So, I'm finally free of those dogs I was babysitting. I wasn't minding it until this last day. Chance (the one-year-old puppy) must have gotten a bladder infection or something, because I kept having to take him out every two hours or less on the last day, and he wouldn't give me any warning when he had to go like he had the other days. One of the last times I took him out, there was blood in his urine, so we definitely thought it was an infection then. Poor guy. The worst part is that it was on Saturday, so Brandy really can't take Chance to the vet until Monday. I gave both him and Princess a good snuggle before they left, of course.
Apparently, Brandy went to Wisconsin Dells. Oddly, even though I've lived in this state all my life, I've never been to the Dells. But then again, I've never been on a vacation. ACen is the closest I get to that. Anywho, Brandy brought me back a souvenir - a piggy bank with my birthstone on it - for taking care of her dogs for the week. Surprisingly, what she bought me isn't useless like so many vacation gifts are. I really do need a place to stash change during college. I carry around money constantly, so I'm frequently breaking a dollar, and I don't like keeping change in my purse. It weighs it down. I keep my quarters in one place (for laundry), but I just toss the rest of the change into a box. Now I can toss it into a genuine piggy bank. :up:
I bought a few more CD holders, this time for my games. I really prefer having the cases on hand, but since I'm limiting myself to half of the dorm room this year (damn forced roommate), I need to figure out ways to make my load smaller. My games, DVDs, and CDs are a large part of my collection of stuff that I bring to college, so I was hoping that I could limit them to a few CD holders instead.
The power went out last night - just for a few seconds, of course. But it scared the crap out of me to suddenly hear my computer making a popping noise and then have the whole house go black for a few moments. It was storming, but I didn't think it was that bad. I was right in the middle of watching some hentai, too. I still don't get the appeal of hentai, so I keep watching a random series or episode every once in a while, trying to understand it. This time it's a four episode series called "Discipline." Not surprisingly, the series is dominated by women who all have HUEG LEIK XBOX breasts - and the guy has a monster penis. Really, when *doesn't* that happen in hentai? It's terribly predictable, just like how you *know* the guy is going to screw every woman in that anime at some point or another. At least there aren't any dickchicks in this one. >_>
But really, I want to see a hentai where all of the women have small breasts, and it focuses on what the MAN is doing, and not how high-pitched the girl can cry out or how much her boobs are bouncing. Cuz if hentai animators have one thing down, it's breast physics. I'll never see anything like that, though, because hentai is inherently created for men and their fantasies, just as yaoi is created for women. (However, I'd pay good money to see more than one or two measly yaoi anime that were NOT low-budget, poorly-animated pieces of crap, as nearly all seem to be.) I'm not sure who yuri is for. You'd think men, but women seem to be as big of fans of it as anyone. Then again, society has a silly double-standard, where men are allowed to be grossed out at gay male sex, but women aren't supposed to be annoyed by lesbians doing the same. We learned the reasons behind that in sociology, but it's a long story to be detailing here - and I think I may have discussed it in a previous journal entry anyhow.
Still waiting on a response from the coordinator to my last pseudo-yaoi MEP post, as well as PM responses from some of the FMV folks. I don't think they're going to respond, which *really* irks me, but I guess I'll go ahead and make a thread update today. If they don't want to respond, then I guess they just don't get any say in what happens. Waiting for two of my beta testers to respond as well. I don't blame them for taking more time, though, as I gave them a number of videos to wade through, and I didn't send out the PMs that long ago to them. I would have sent them out sooner, but I was waiting on the FMV PM responses - which obviously never came from some folks. However, since the original deadline I set is fast approaching, I'll have to make my post today, as not to alarm some folks who might be scrambling for the date.
Honestly, the next project will be more organized than this. I also won't be doing it for some time. However, if I want to do a second one, I probably need to start it by Christmas. If I wait too long, it'll run into the start of my senior year, and I can't coordinate a project then. I'll be in Spain, and not necessarily with my computer. That'll be a slight problem.
Anywho, gonna end this entry so I can get cracking on some stuff I need to get done.
See you, loves. <3
- Jen -
Three hundred fifty second entry - lipflap, etc.
2007-08-03 01:12:46
Time - 11:45, Noise - Chocobo Racing - "Mysidia's Sky Garden"
^I'm pretty sure that game is home to some of the gaming world's happiest music. >_> Actually, any game with "chocobo" in the title can usually claim this type of fame. They may not be the best games, but hell if they're not the most sickeningly cute things you will EVER find (proof: my Chocobo's Dungeon 2 video). Damn, I want to work with CD2 again - just because it's so adorable. Unfortunately, it's a *really* tough source to work with, as there's no more than fifteen minutes of footage in the entire game. It took all the creative thinking I had to make just the ONE video I made back in the day.
Still taking care of the dogs. I won't be done with this task 'til Saturday. I'm minding it less and less, though. Chance is irritating cuz he got a little sick and now we have to take him out every three or so hours, but he's getting less and less annoying personality-wise. Princess is... well... Princess. She's just kind of there. You barely even notice her half of the time, and you absentmindedly pet her the other half. She's too cute NOT to pet. Like I've said before, I may not be much of a dog person, but I would happily care for Princess anytime.
So, working on getting out lipflap in my pseudo-yaoi segment. I've managed to fix several parts mostly successfully, but I really don't know what to do about some of the other parts. Using motion tracking was suggested to me, but as far as I know, Magix can't do that and I don't know how to do it otherwise. I'm thinking I'm just going to leave the parts the way they are. I got rid of several major parts, and assuming it doesn't look bad to the other editors on the project, that's the way I'm going to submit my final video. Also, parts where one character is yelling at the other I purposefully left IN the video. The fact that they're yelling is important to the idea of a love/hate relationship, and it just wouldn't make sense to get rid of the flap in that part.
The only thing left to do is get rid of the borders and stuff, which I always save for last. If I have to crop and resize stuff, I wait 'til after I'm finished editing. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but I just think that with the way I make AMVs, it makes the most sense. Basically, I do all of the filtering as I render each lossless clip. It takes up more space to use lossless clips for editing (especially when Magix is iffy about Lagarith and I have to use Huffyuv instead), but it's not that awful if you plan out your video somewhat. It took four gigs for these Furuba clips, which is considerably better than the 30 gigs for the Saikano video. But the Saikano video was strange from the get-go, so I try not to compare it too often.
Anyway, I figure it just makes more sense to do as little Avisynth-ing as you actually have to do on so many clips, when you may not even use all of them. I figured that my clean-up filters were a must prior to editing, and my crop/resize ones could wait 'til after the fact. It seems to work, but I'm still just getting the hang of working with "real" anime and Avisynth.
My goal for tomorrow? Get another beta ready to be posted in the pseudo-yaoi MEP thread. Hopefully it'll be quickly approved so that I can get rid of the Furuba clips and start working on something else. But before I start another project, I need to clean off some HD space for clips. I'm not deathly low, but I'm getting there. I'd definitely be strained for ripping if I don't clean off a bit of area.
I guess my second goal after rendering the beta should be to finish my FMV segment. That's a good chunk of space there with the Oni 4 clips. If I can finish that and get rid of those clips, I'll be fine on space.
Hrm... decisions, decisions... I have lots to do tomorrow, it seems.
Nighty night, loves. <3
- Jen
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