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truth won't set us free
2009-12-18 10:25:27
SH114:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: none
- Storyboard/planning: rough
- Clipping: 2/14 | complete
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
The same qualms about the eventual quality of the source pool -- and the difficulty of painting logos out -- are still there, but the pressure in regard to this video is completely gone; clipping is going easily, cleanly, and smoothly, and while the concept is a big ask, getting about 1GB of source per ep over 13 to do a video that is going to boil down to about 1GB of Lags will hopefully guarantee that I can work things out in edit. If this was a bigger project, I'd be more concerned about 'cutting in the camera', but this is a short video on a manageable source volume, and I'm confident in handling it.
Plotting, though, definitely needs work. The bizarre lyrics on this one are going to need close attention to stay out of unAMVable territory, and there's only so much I can do with random drop-ins. This may add some extra time, but the effort's going to be worth it.
--Kai out
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this war ain't over
2009-12-17 09:17:30
SH114:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: none
- Storyboard/planning: rough
- Clipping: 1/14 | complete
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
There are 13 days left in the cut, thanks to ffmpeg import working as advertised -- no further reproc than cleaning up the leavings of last night, which is done.....and scaling the secondary source out to HD, which is going to be similarly quick at the end. I got per-episode time down below two hours as well, despite the fire-alarm mandated breaks, and the source pool is looking significantly better, so the current SH114 is still the same video it was yesterday. I was going to triple-time a certain clip into a gravity blast and watch that on repeat for um, ever, but ended up not doing so. Wait for the video, and in the meantime, watch Bert and Ernie play some Last Days of Humanity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InZNBcJTmWs
This is still going to be a challenging video, easy neither to assemble nor to plot out, but it's not going to be impossible, and if I can get the cutting done by the end of the year, I'll welcome the challenge of getting it edited and mixed down by deadline.
--Kai out
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the beds are burning
2009-12-16 09:43:05
SH114:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: none
- Storyboard/planning: rough
- Clipping: 0.25/13 | complete
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
Technically, I'm ahead of where I should be, but for various reasons this project is in significant danger of being cancelled if I have difficulties in getting the ffmpeg importer for AviSynth to work correctly. I don't have the time to both wrestle with this component and do a cut that is already looking like it's going to drag out forever, especially when the concept is looking weak, the main source insufficient, and the video itself totally unnecessary.
If I don't get FFmpeg working correctly tonight, this project will be cancelled. If I can't get clipping time down below 3 hours/episode even with ffmpeg, this project will be cancelled. And if I make it to Saturday with the source pool from the main source looking as weak as it does currently, this project will be cancelled. Should any of these come to pass, the current SH115 will shift up to SH114 and get a closer feasibility review, and a new experimental direct-to-.org project will slot in as SH115 pending source. SH116 will stay on what it's planned to be currently.
Life is too short, and the SH to-do list too long, to fuck around with weak concepts already done better by other people when there are more interesting things to work on.
--Kai out
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i hear their choice of life
2009-12-15 09:41:49
SH114:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: none
- Storyboard/planning: rough
- Clipping: 0/13 | 6/12
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
The good news is that I tracked down the Katsucon deadline yesterday, and picked up some necessary non-anime source. The bad news is that though the deadline is makeable, it was about 20 days out as of yesterday, and I'm estimating this as at a minimum a 17-day cut -- 13 days on the main source, 2 reprocessing days because it's in HD, and another two days cutting the secondary source. This means a 100% committed effort is required to meet the deadline, and 100% effort is utter poison to AMVage.
The pace that allows me to do, when the stars are aligned, a video in a week is not a 100% effort. A 100% effort is finishing three episodes in an hour fifteen, then going back and having to say no, this is not acceptable, there is still time left before the exhaustion threshold, you can and need to do more, then doing another three before sacking out. This is the plan for tonight as well, and then the secondary source will be all cut and I can start on the hard part. Not the brightest idea in the whole world to do this over Christmas/New Year's/EOY, but the production schedule is what it is.
The silver lining in all of this is that I'm encouraged by the stuff I'm not cutting from the secondary source to eventually someday go back and do a proper black metal video with this title, using the bits that will not be appearing in this video (which seems at this point to be mostly about animals grabbing their dicks), and that if I blow through the Katsucon deadline and end up finishing this mid-January, it'll be in roughly enough time to help fatten up the comedy category at AniBo without having to use the SH116 idea for that purpose -- and will compensate for SH115 going with Kreator instead of Revocation on account of time restrictions.
20 working days till deadline. Estimated 16 days remaining in the cut.
--Kai out
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sky is falling down
2009-12-14 09:46:48
SH114:
- Source rip: 12/12, 0/?
- Music: none
- Precleaning: none
- Storyboard/planning: none
- Clipping: none
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
SH113 is finished, and out, and announced, and all that other stuff that one does to AMVs when they're released, and I have a couple days to set the wheels in motion for SH114. This one is a little underconcepted as yet, but it's another short song, and if the secondary source cuts right -- and quickly enough -- I may be able to finish cutting the main source by the end of the year. The first step, though, is to clean up the leavings of 113 and get the song ripped and listened up.
I'm getting a little concerned about the spate of short videos recently, though. I like having the luxury of 200%+ coverage even on a quick cut like this last one, but look at the following:
SH112 - 2:46
SH113 - 2:42
SH114 (planned) - 2:10
SH116 (planned) - 2:16
Only SH115, which is not yet decided, is going to end up north of 4 minutes, which is concerning. The stuff that I previously consider to be my best work runs, in the main, over 5 minutes, and I'm looking ahead at several projects that are going to be significantly longer than that. Focus over long runtime is a skill, and it's a skill that the current prod schedule is not exactly keeping in practice. Hopefully, 115 will go a ways to get this back -- and I'll be able to slot in another long video as 117.
--Kai out
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