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stood there in the cold
2009-12-13 23:04:23
SH113:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: complete, I guess
- Clipping: complete
- Edit: complete
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
SH113 is done, at least as far as I can determine, and if the test XVID that's building now (because it takes less time than the h264 by a factor of 20) looks ok, it's off to the real render press with an eye towards getting this thing out tomorrow. Since this was short and slack enough to avoid hitting the complexity wall, I don't have a concrete sense of how this thing plays back at real speed for more than 2 or 3 seconds at a time, and this may have significant ramifications for how the video comes together overall.
I hope it's done, though. This was a good project, and a decent learning experience in making the kind of effects design that I have on here and making it work, but this needs to give way o the stuff currently pushing up behind it in the pipeline.
SH114 needs effort as well as thinking to get out probably not in time for Katsucon. SH115 needs to be decided on with enough leadtime to make AniBo. And SH116, finally scheduled firmly this weekend after the DVDs fell into place and I found out that somehow nobody had used the song yet, needs to make Otakon's deadline, whenever that is. No rest, as they say, for the wicked.
--Kai out
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bloody water consumes me
2009-12-12 07:43:27
SH113:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: none
- Clipping: complete
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
Clipping wrapped as expected last night, and while I'm set up to start editing, I don't expect to actually start doing so until tomorrow morning. I have shopping to take care of today after class, and that's going to lead to a later return when I get back. Add in some housework, new anime to catch up on, and another listening pass to get some kind of a rough plan in on this, and it's pretty easy to see how no new clips end up hitting the timeline.
The second source is now pulled and sitting on top of the CD for SH114. I'm going to cut that one first after a couple song listen passes, because what I'm able to get out of it is going to determine significantly whether 114 is original and hilarious, or a boring retread of stuff done a thousand times already. Somewhere in this frantic mess of the next two weeks I also have to do a comparative feasibility audit on the Kreator and Revocation ideas currently competing for the SH115 slot; there's going to be enough time to do 114 before I have to start 115 in order to hit AniBo, but it's going to be pretty tight.
--Kai out
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waiting for the front door to splinter
2009-12-11 10:32:47
SH113:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: none
- Clipping: 3/5
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
As anticipated, sick and bushed last night, and as a result I only finished VOB 3 and got #4 set up; VOB 5 is already done because it was the original test bed for the precleaning config because it happened to start on an I-frame and fixing that was a real stick-out point. It's not much, but I'm still breathing a significant sigh of relief that there wasn't any field order switching in the DVD on this one, which ADV did a stellar job with. No idea if this is real or chimerical, based on my own lack of understanding, but I at least think I've seen it before, and hallucinations, especially when they affect your approach to production, can be pretty powerful.
If I end up going out tonight, clipping will finish early on Sunday and the video will be out Mondayish. If not, as is the more likely case, and I stay in tonight blowing sludge out of my cranial sinuses, then clipping will probably finish tonight and the video may get out as early as late Sunday. This would be a midday render, which is a time burden, but would allow me to steal a march on the SH114/115 evaluation sweepstakes. I'm not even sure I know where half the stuff for 114 is; good thing I have many fewer volumes to go through than if I was getting a CD out for that one.
--Kai out
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canaries in the mine
2009-12-10 09:37:10
SH113:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: 4/5
- Storyboard/planning: none
- Clipping: 2.65/5
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
This is the result of waking up at 4 AM hacking slime out of one's lungs, deciding that going back to bed would probably bring on more of the same, and deciding that as long as you're up, you might as well get some video work in. One and nearly two-thirds VOBs done and dusted to add to the other one cut last night, and while I may just zonk out immediately on coming back home tonight, it wouldn't be a disaster, stylistically and frame-of-mind-wise, if this video was all cut in the freezing predawn of a New England December over the next couple days. Under optimistic conditions, I could be editing Sunday again, even scratching Friday and Saturday nights for Christmas shopping, class, and other activities.
Of course, before that, I have to actually do the effects work on this one that will allow me to turn Shinkai's cameras around, and prove that using it won't just make the picture look like crap. The man has never met a sunset -- nor an edge light, for that matter -- that he didn't fall in love with, but while this has produced some beautiful canvases in this source, it's not exactly leaving suitably stark material for this video everywhere. There's been a good lot of good source, though, and I may be at the minimal-satisfaction level already -- estimating about 1.5 spc, and I called SH112 within 0.02 spc last time out, on less source cut -- but all this does is push a tighter, closer focus on selection ahead, to make sure that what I get fits with a view to being better than what I have -- and hopefully, without having to shoot a blue diffusion over too much of it.
--Kai out
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awakened by the hand of autumn
2009-12-09 16:00:36
Diverses:
SH112 packed up neatly onto six DVDs (source + HQ, the MPEG4 didn't fit). This was possible because the Lags master used to preserve the full-weight version of the video crunched down to about 1.5 GB, half the throw weight expected. This is probably because the source is a TV anime with large areas of the same or virtually the same color, especially the 'microbe theater' segments, and not insignificantly because a 1280x720 black frame can be coded by about the same number of bytes as a 640x480 one, assuming the codec is sufficiently intelligent. If I ever found something more creative to do with blastbeats, I'd have a lot more archiving problems than I do currently.
I missed Brutal Truth last night because I didn't want to get caught in the weather, but I didn't make any progress on SH113 and had to drive through a complete shitshow this morning anyway. Take note: this is what you get for skipping metal shows.
Usually, downloads on the bandwidth-used page track those available on the edit-videos page pretty closely. SH112, though, is an exception: as of this writing 21 downloads recorded for bandwidth purposes, but 11 local DLs and 16 previews. Conclusion: there is a significant minority of people out there who don't read and are turning the video off as soon as the band starts playing. The implications of this for a Yucca Mountain-type facility are unclear, but such facilities should be preempted by more aggressive fuel recycling and better reactor design anyway.
--Kai out
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