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Nothing is eaten that hot as it's cooked.
2005-07-31 16:30:17
It was a sunny day, but not too hot. Ideal weather for riding my bike, only a little bit windy. It helped me to get my mind free. After return from the ride I startet to sync my vid visual, to trimm the clips according to what I see from the waveform. After doing some edits I rendered the whole vid, and watched it to see if I did it right. It needed much time that way, but it worked.
So the only remaining task is the masking of the final scene. It'll consume a lot of time, and I'm not sure if I can make it within the deadline of the ScoobsNet Studios contest. And another thing I remaked. MovieXone messes up some clips. It looks like it brings the fields in disorder. But the footage should be progressive, so how can this happen?
I must definatly get a new editing program. I found one which will run on Win2K too, and it has a free trial. But it has a flaw - it can only export WMV. I have to check out what this means regarding quality and size. And of course I will continue searching for editing programs. -
Despair
2005-07-30 16:30:53
Even if it wasn't a rainy day (except a quarter of an hour in the evening), the weather was unpredictable with the possibility of thunderstorm. So I decided to stay at home and to work at my AMV. I've tried to tell the end of the story within the remaining 30 seconds, and it worked! After figuring that out, I changed again a clip with GIMP. For another clip there is still a lot of work to do with GIMP. But this doesn't change any of the edits in the vid. So I decided to export it , to see how it comes out.
As I saw the result I was outraged. What happened to the synching? Had I accidently moved clips before the export? I checked it at the preview function - all ok. I exported it again - the same desyncing. The rest of the day I spent with exploring the depths of MoviXone, tried all settings I could find. Without a positive result. This evening I posted the problem in the forum - with less hope for a positive answer. MoviXone 4.0 is simply too old. So I have probably to get a new video editing program. My problem is, the most new programms require WinXP, but I run Win2K at my PC. The only programs I know are from AIST, the same company which made MovieXone. The don't have trial versions, so I can't test if my problem will continue.:( -
How to continue?
2005-07-29 16:43:49
Today I edited the vid to the point my actual footage ends, to see how large the gap will become. I was surprised that it ended at the lower end of the range I'd estimated yesterday - around 30 seconds. After that I made the basic clips that I need to continue and finish the story, and got 25 clips. That will be good for around a minute vid. So I stuck in a decision between my original idea - to make two vids of it - or to get it into one vid. I will use the method "trial is better than study" and try to make it one vid. Maybe I can compress the story enough, or I have to "stretch" the music again. If it fails, I can still cut the music and do a second vid.
Since it looks like it will become a rainy weekend, I'll make a lot of progress, maybe I can finish this project. So I'm confident that I can manage something that I yesterday thought is was gone - to submit the vid to ScoobsNet Studios contest right in time.
What me often annoyed at MovieXone was the low number of transitions - only one, the dissolve. It has a small number of effects too, but that can I compensate with VDub filters. Today I have found at the AIST website a transition compiler which also works for my old version of MovieXone. I've read the really short manual, and it seems quite easy to create transitions. I'll play around with that after finishing this vid. Some more transitions could be helpfull for my next project.
With the next comment I bend my self given rules to the limits. There is a guy around - to mention his name would finaly break my rules, and he isn't worth it. His journal is very popular, mostly because he insults people. I wish the org members would stop paying him attention, neither read his journal nor react to his posts. As long as he gets attention he will continue, it's some kind of confirmation for him. If he gets no longer attention he will disapear like he already was for a long time. -
Up and Down
2005-07-28 16:18:16
Today my mood went up and down.
Good news first: MoviXone worked this evening over an hour without crashing. I ended it regular for other activities. And even yet I worked again half an hour without problems.
And now the bad one: The whole day I had the feeling that I haven't enough footage to finish the project. So I decided to throw in all remaining clips in the right order. And it is true. Even with the uncut clips there is a gap of 20 seconds. After cutting the clips it'll grow to 30...45 seconds. After finding this out I had to realize that there won't be enough footage for my next vid, which should have been the continuation of this one. So I decided to put them together, to make one vid instead of two. This means at least an additional week of work, get the footage and especially the preparations for the masking I plan to use. -
Possible Problems
2005-07-27 16:36:19
Yesterday I was happy about MovieXone not crashing. I should have kept it secret. Today, after 2 hours of work, it crashed the first time. From then I was only able to do one change, and if I tried to preview, it crashed again. That happened several times. So I'd quit editing for today and decided to defrag my harddrive. It helps little bit to get MovieXone more stabile, but not much. Seems as if it has problems if the number of clips exceeds a certain number. If it continues like this, it will slow down my editing remarkably.
Judging from the timeline is half of the vid done. The problem I encountered yesterday, that a clip ended too early, is resolved. I didn't stretch the preceding clip like my first idea was. Instead I'd trimmed some clips, synced them to other parts of the music and added one more clip.The part I'm working at the moment has slow music. I wonder if some of the clips aren't too long. Maybe I should export the unfinished vid and watch the result as a whole, to get a better impression how it comes out.
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