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now a new path is clear
2009-12-02 10:08:21
SH112:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: 5/12
- Storyboard/planning: partial
- Clipping: 10.75/12
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
The debit and the hidden benefit of the bad indexes observed on episodes 7, 9, and 11 of this project is that the deeper you get in, the longer any operation that requires seeking past what is currently in memory becomes. This is a debit, obviously, because though it took three hours to get through the first 27k frames, it will not take one hour only to resolve the remaining 6000 in this episode, which sucks. The hidden benefit is that every goddamned operation is going to take forever, so I can safely start work on this episode when I walk back in the door at 7:30 and multiplex it with washing up and cooking dinner, making it not impossible that I could start on block 12 tonight. The additional hidden benefit is that even if some of the components of bloc 12 are similarly broken, this "block" is actually three five-minute files, so seek times won't add up to as great a degree as seen previously.
This doesn't change the overall projection, though; think there's a gig Thursday night that might be worth checking out, but I haven't made a firm decision yet. If the reprocessing goes in Saturday after class, edit will probably finish Sunday with a release on Monday -- by which time local may be back accepting uploads and downloads, even. We'll see.
The poll below is still open, still on zero votes. Go ahead and catch up on Moyashimon while local's out of order or just vote low-information style, whichever.
--Kai out
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will come back to you one by one
2009-12-01 18:34:55
Video's still in the same place. Poll from a couple posts down is still on zero votes, much as expected. I probably will not finish clipping ep 11 tonight. This much, as expected. I even may be recovering from sausage-making-induced burnout at a faster rate than expected.
In the midst of this roaring frustration, which is probably a natural result of putting in nearly a full workday's effort on AMVing in one of the last days off I'll have this year, plus reports of other people having similar motivational issues, I somehow happened on the thought that 95% of the time, we hate 95% of what we have to do in this hobby. On reflection, this isn't true: there's a lot of crap that is more to be put up with than enjoyed, but there's still a lot to like as well.
I like the moment that an idea hits, and the scouting process where you determine that yes, this could come together. I'm indifferent to the ripping process because unless it's truly hard, these days I can mostly sleep through it. Even when I had to cap stuff in real time this was largely the case, though I did have to wake up and stop the capture when the DVD finished or the VHS hit stop. Video filtering and song timing are more challenging and interesting than tedious; it's the clipping part, where you slog on for days or weeks on end grinding up video for the sausage, that's a tedious nightmare, but that itself is pushing the tedious nightmare out from the actual edit process, which is where it would be if I used AVS frameserving of whole vobs/eps.
I like editing as I came to understand it initially: selecting video that works in synergy with the music to play against specific sections, and constructing a coherent sequence out of originally unrelated elements. I hate doing effects design that runs independent of this, or requires significant additional work. If I wanted to do massive amounts of effects work, I'd be an animator. I'm not. I don't like fighting with my editing environment to avoid technical mishaps, but I like even less re-rendering shit because one cut was incorrectly flagged and the whole goddamned video is now interlaced. I like selecting complementary music for credits, and doing up typography that matches the video and doesn't come off as too obtrusive, but I'm not a fan of the inevitable compromises needed, especially on the musical end, to get them done and over with in less than 10 seconds. I'm glad that Zarx264gui takes almost all the work out of correct encoding, but I really wish that I had the computing power to make it run faster.
It's far from all positive, but there is enough in there that is *not* deadly dull and intolerable to get through to decide to continue, or at least to justify the logic behind doing so.
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Ontopic:
Given that block 11 is going to take two days to clip, edit is not going to begin before the weekend. Even in the best-case/worst-case scenario where block 12 and the second reprocessing batch go down without a hitch Thursday and Hypocrisy cancels, Ensiferum is still worth going out to Worcester for Friday.
--Kai out
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on your cold remains
2009-11-30 21:08:29
SH112:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: 5/12
- Storyboard/planning: partial
- Clipping: 10/12
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
Six hours and change to cut a single 22-minute ep can officially go fuck itself right in the fucking earhole. The last full-size episode also looks like another disaster area, but fortunately that will be the last one. Edit starts either Thursday after the second reprocessing stand, or on the weekend if there's a gig that night -- still sorting out what the hell goes where on my schedule.
Raw hatred of the sausage-making difficulties on this video aside, things are going well; without the Thanksgiving weekend and taking today off, this would have definitely dragged out another couple days and pushed any thought of SH114 out past the new year, where it would be interfering with SH115, which needs to a) be decided on and b) have enough lead time to cut 13 to 24 episodes for an AniBo deadline. As things stand, 112 and 113 will drop in December, and I should be far enough into 114 by the new year that even if it hangs over, it won't fuck anything up.
No, I'm not quite keeping the original schedule, but I've had bad illness and injury luck the last two months, and that's got to turn around at some point. We'll see how this goes. The poll mentioned a few posts down is still open; not completely sure about votes yet, but it's likely still on the expected zero. Today's clipping-environment-induced-downtime also led to a productive run of album archiving: the figure now stands at 43, though some of those were sides of splits that could be separated, rather than the mostly-inseperable ones from yesterday. As it goes; the stack of clearoutable ones is growing, the yet-to-be-processed stacks getting shorter.
--Kai out
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fear my captor
2009-11-29 18:27:07
SH112:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: 5/12
- Storyboard/planning: partial
- Clipping: 8/12
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
A touch over seven hours expended. Two episodes cut, negligible source gathered. Another poorly indexed file on deck, probably forcing me to call it a night and burn the morning of my day off tomorrow on it. This is fucking garbage, but the video keeps creeping closer to the finish/starting line; even with shows at the end of this week, it's hard to see this not going to edit within a matter of days.
Additionally, I got 13 CDs boiled down to archive formats, which means that after another 200 days like this, I will be done that project. And yes, that is just about as hopeful of happening as it sounds. This is about 10% through one of five stacks of stuff I decided I wasn't going to keep; we'll see how many survive from the 11 similarly-sized stacks of stuff I was planning on keeping when the time arrives to handle those.
--Kai out
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never see the sun or breathe the air
2009-11-27 19:45:35
SH112:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: 5/12
- Storyboard/planning: partial
- Clipping: 6/12
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
Another six hours clocked, and two more eps are in the books, along with the first half of the reprocessing. This took a lot of time but resulted in a source volume of half the disk weight that it was originally, so this is going to need to be repeated at least once more before the actual editing process starts. By frame count, though, I'm more than half done, and for various reasons the next two to three episodes are expected to be light on source, so the pace may pick up as well. Depending on how hard I lean on it, I may finish clipping by the time I have to go back to work on Tuesday.
The problem with this video and this source (Moyashimon -- no point in really concealing anything now; wiki page is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moyashimon) is that while this cuts together pretty damn easily for a concept that can basically be summed up as "wicked brutal", there is no room in this video, really, to showcase the ways in which the cast provides strong (and also hawt) manifestations of the death metal worldview. Accordingly, the credits sequence is going to focus on "Miss Death Metal" as a contrast to the unending brutality of the previous 2:45, and since the counter indicates that people for whatever reason are presumably reading this, I get to ask for reader participation in picking between Hasegawa Haruka and Mutou Aoi. Please bear in mind the following strong points as to why each has a case to be Miss Death Metal.
Hasegawa:
- smart
- independent
- takes no shit from anyone
- dresses S&M
- often uses violence to achieve her ends
- when drunk, flirts by maiming the object of her affection
Mutou:
- free-spirited
- alcoholic
- unfazed by getting drenched in slime and other gross shit
- believes in weird stuff
- unafraid to travel by sketchy means
- probably bisexual
As you can see, there is a lot to be said for both contenders. The series is unlicensed, so investigate on the usual channels if you care to, or just go ahead and vote low-information style. Votes accepted via PM (see forums) or email (see profile page); should any actually be received, a running total will be posted at intervals as they come in.
Future video work this weekend depends on Celtic doing up St. Mirren quick, train timetables, and other things; I'm not going to promise to be in edit position by the end of the month, but as things stand it's not impossible either.
--Kai out
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