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disappeared under the layers
2010-02-09 13:29:25
SH114:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: rough
- Clipping: complete
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
And just like that, the cut was done, and potentially, the remaining effects issues resolved as well. The final takeaway is obviously, to believe in your source and keep going; for a good idea like this, you are eventually going to get bailed out in some way or another by doing the work on the front end to avoid having to do it on the back. I didn't start editing last night, but I'm anticipating a decent start and decent pace for tonight in that regard; in all likelihood, this one will wrap up before the start of next week, and with less than 30 total hours committed.
Though SH112 took longer because of a lot of ancillary bullshit that I could and should have avoided, this was the longest cut in terms of anime volume that I've done since going active again, and there are good lessons in that about how to approach a nontrivial source volume, but the most important thing about this cut is that a) it finished and b) it didn't have to take as long as it did. I have a fetish born out of that progress block above for not stopping in the middle of vobs, so there was insistent negative pressure to *not* work on the video when I knew I didn't have time to cut a full block. This was stupid, because any progress is good progress, and 45 minutes spent cutting through 10,000 frames on a night that won't finish a vob is 45 minutes I'm able to spend cutting a little further down the chain and maybe dusting two. This is one of the last barriers left for me, and if it's down, so much the better.
In with the content for SH114, especially last night, was a fair bit of time that maybe shouldn't've been charged, cutting stuff that is going to go into another video still further down the line. That one's looking good, but will be conceptual nightmare to get together; fortunately, I have this one, with much less runtime and covering about 40% of the concepts, in order to get tuned up in that regard.
--Kai out
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random pattern fall
2010-02-07 15:19:46
SH114:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: rough
- Clipping: 14,5/17
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
Episode 22/vob 14 into 15 =, as the Germans say, schwääääääääääääärm. Good animation, decent model fidelity, and amazing content and composition make this the icing on the cake: there are about 2 vobs' worth of stuff left, but the video is practically all composed even as it stands, and with 20.7 GB of source in the pile, it's not going to be a case of having shots, but which of the good shots fits in in which place.
Today has gone very well so far, with Celtic winning and good work going in on the video. Hopefully, things will continue to improve with the Colts losing and maybe some more video work before that point, but as it is, success.
--Kai out
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lessons of the past
2010-02-05 11:12:21
SH114:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: rough
- Clipping: 13/17
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
Another tale of good content and criminally bad animation, delayed due to Keane-related ecstasy and agony, then a night out drinking and stuffing ballot boxes. If it's not worth cheating, it's not worth winning -- and when the stakes are a $50 drinks coupon rather than something actually important, that makes overcoming any ethical barriers all the easier.
The cut on this video is slowly approaching completion, and I'm at that point where I'm thinking half about adding to the source pile and half about concepts, effects, etc, needed to tie the source together into a real video. The concepts are coming along fine, and will be fairly straightforward to build out of the source, but the effects design is another thing entirely. The ideas I'm kicking around right now will involve either new equipment or extensive post-prod, and probably both, and the really stupid thing about it is that 90%+ of this video will not need this kind of interference. Most of what I want to do is already in-source or easily cut out of it, but it is that one last bit that needs more polishing, and is likely to look dumb and fail without it.
Unrelated: I was catching up on new anime hoovered up over the past couple weeks, and, quite expectedly, nearly everything is crap. Unfortunately, I need to keep following Sora no Woto despite it being moeblob cast-of-K-ON-performs-Allison-and-Lilia crap. This goes to that nebulous video idea that's been mentioned every now and then as causing a hideous pile of source DVDs to hang about on my shelves: the first goddamned cut in this stupid show is exactly, as cut from my imagination, the 'dream cut' around which the entire video will build itself. I have to use it now, and to keep following a show I don't have an interest in, in the hope of more similar.
The really hilarious part in all this is that any people who have a notional interest in this distant-future project will now go back to the first episode, start it playing and go WAT. What does a concrete wall have to do with anything? How does a concrete wall set up an AMV? The answer, of course, is that this is such a perfect concrete wall for the purposes of that video that if it didn't exist, I'd almost be tempted to paint it myself.
--Kai out
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whom the gods detest
2010-02-01 11:41:46
SH114:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: rough
- Clipping: 12/17
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
Well, so much for a big push over the weekend; Saturday's round of nervier-than-necessary win, class, hiking, and awesome show left me a little more drained than anticipated, so when push came to shove all that came of it was the second disc finished. In the five (more like four-and-a-half, by volume) eps remaining, there are basically two real episodes and two fillers, one of which is heavily rotoscoped. The cut is likely to finish this week, with the video edited then by the start of next.
Coming as it is to the end of the cut, the video is definitely taking shape conceptually, but the difficulty now is that the source spans about six months of in-show timeline, and characters who were running around in their shirtsleeves eight vobs ago are now in parkas. Fixing and/or managing around this is going to be an interesting exercise, but I still think it's possible. We'll see.
--Kai out
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we paid the price | of our own injustice
2010-01-29 11:15:56
SH114:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: rough
- Clipping: 10/17
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
In retrospect, I should have gone in to see Cynic rather than editing last night. There was enough salt down this morning that the roads were turned from black to white, to make a strained and nonobvious Kreator pun, so black ice wouldn't've been a problem coming back, and only as much of a problem going in as it turned out to be going home, with about as much snow gumming up the works. I didn't know this in advance, though, and so pitched it, having already seen Cynic perform an amazing set at Wacken a couple years back and not caring about anyone else on the bill.
Editing prospects are looking better for tonight as well: Shining has apparently dropped off the Palladium gig, so my inducement is to go drive an hour through heavy traffic, probably miss Septic Flesh, see Goatwhore and Suffocation for $22, then leave during Behemoth or Devildriver. I like Suffocation and want to support them, but there's a lot of NO CARE EVER on that bill, and enough local bands apparently p2ping at the start that it starts to take on the sinister character of a Mark's show. If the weather turns by the time I leave work, I may just pack it in, go watch hockey and drink at my brother's place, and pretend that I'll get back in time to hack some video.
On the positive side, CNV is playing tomorrow for the first time in like a year, there was a lot of good content in the res of vob 10 and the light is showing at the end of the tunnel of the cut, Celtic really ought to be able to get off the schneid and beat Hamilton in the morning, I probably got my Wacken ticket order in before the sellout, and the AniBo deadline is about when I expected it to be, with enough lead time to finish 114 and reprocess 112 to spec so that I can exploit the allowance for HD. Not all is lost, and the corner may be turned.
--Kai out
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