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one long sharp tooth
2009-11-25 10:03:32
SH112:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: none
- Storyboard/planning: partial
- Clipping: 4/12
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
The process goes faster, the rate of source addition slows down. Full day today, so this is probably where things are going to stand until the weekend. Fortunately, my best-approximation calculations show I have about 1053 seconds' worth of video collected, out of the approximately 165 needed. I think the math may be wrong somewhere, and a lot of these cuts are going to be shortened up due to musical necessity reasons, but I still have the option to take long stretches and intercut if that's what's going to work. As somewhat anticipated, I *could* do this video right now, but cutting through the rest of the series with the same selectivity will make it better.
The regret, though, is that this is the only video I'm going to do with this title. This clipping effort needs to be too directed to get things to come out properly and in a timely fashion, so I can't fuck around and waste time taking more Hasegawa cuts to do a second-run video with "Sentenced To Burn". Other people can make domina-themed Cannibal Corpse videos, but I'm (to the best of my current knowledge) the only one who's going to dive into slam up to the elbows, like Sawaki into the cow's asshole in last night's episode, without enduring a similar reaction.
Of course, this may be overstating things a little; Parasitic isn't by any means the slammiest band out there, and this song is not especially slam-ridden. There's a Dysentery idea hanging around at the periphery of the to-do list that would take this further, but this one is the current video, and it'll make a decent introduction to slam for those still in the shallow end of the death metal pool. This is pretty much the original intent of SH, but the events of the last eight years have gone to advantage in that people are actually in the goddamned pool already, and have convinced themselves that they want to swim.
--Kai out
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close your eyes and dream | of the plague
2009-11-24 10:12:35
SH112:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: none
- Storyboard/planning: partial
- Clipping: 3/12
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
Weekend, fun but useless; shows seen, zero; alcohol consumed, immense. There is a definite correlation here.
Last night, though, I kicked the rust off and passed ep 3 through the wringer in about 2 hours, so while source volume is dropping, time clipping is dropping faster, and I had a good lead to start with. After tomorrow night -- another gig im Plan but also perhaps an early off from work given past history and the fact that I'm on call this week anyways -- I may be in (theoretical) execution position, and in any case will be poised to do a condensation step Thursday before I head over to the folks' for dinner and football. This video is not going to drop this month, but if INSO15 is counted, I'm still on 1 VPM since deciding to work seriously on AMVs again, and there's going to be two videos in December, this one at the start of the month and another one closer to the end.
I'm also getting more sanguine about having to treat Avidemux with kid gloves. The path of least resistance runs through it, which is a significant concern being this pressed for time. Life presses too, and then it becomes a question of how much do I want to finish this, and how much do I want to sleep this week.
--Kai out
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to those who know
2009-11-19 10:55:08
SH112:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: none
- Storyboard/planning: partial
- Clipping: 2/12
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
Avidemux needs to get punched in the face. I have no time for video work tonight, but tomorrow in the day, I'll hopefully have the time to do a refresher course in AviSynth Real Programming(TM) (and if not, Saturday morning before class) and write up scripts to load this shit into VirtualDub which a) supports Lagarith; b) doesn't crash if you scan more than ~100 frames without taking your finger off the button; and c) remembers where you write your fucking output to. I lost about fifteen minutes of work (having, of course, to redo it) due to the usual crash->program defaults to writing stdo to its own directory->smart OS setup doesn't allow writing there. DIAF.
Anyways, another 2.5 hours, another episode gone, another ~6GB in source and now up to nearly 200 cuts. This is closing in on the old days, when I could take a song, a four-episode subbed tape, and a self-contained editing environment, and grind out something workable in the space of a week, except for the part where this has tighter clipping requirements (= practically no Hasegawa in the video = ;_;), more source under survey, and is in HD rather than 320x240. I may even have some clipping time tomorrow, though the balance of what I have to cook before leaving for Marduk probably dictates that I do the Lags reprocessing instead. Though the overall volume trend is down, there's still enough good footage remaining that it's necessary to reprocess what's currently available in order to have any drive space at all by the end. The gears must turn, and the machine must roll on.
--Kai out
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know they'll come again one day
2009-11-18 09:41:32
SH112:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: none
- Storyboard/planning: partial
- Clipping: 1/12
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
Good news: despite clipping only one of the twelve episodes/blocks under consideration, I have about 1/4 of the source, volumetrically, that I think I need (116 of an anticipated 408 clips using some back-of-the-envelope math) to do the video, and realistically, no less than 10% of the content that is going to end up in the video, which is also ahead of the pace.
Bad news: that episode took nearly 3 hours to cut, involving several Avidemux crashes, and this encoder apparently doesn't know about Lagarith, so I have 7.6 GB of HuffYUV source that will probably need to be reduced to Lags in order to manage space. I have about 55 GB left on this drive, but anyone who passed the fourth grade can see that 7.6 x 11 > 55. Again, this is 116 clips to throw through the editor and turn into something smaller.
Good news (for me): Marduk and Nachtmystium Friday, booze-enabled Thanksgiving Saturday, Revocation and Panzerbastard Sunday.
Bad news (for video progress): Marduk and Nachtmystium Friday, booze-enabled Thanksgiving Saturday, Revocation and Panzerbastard Sunday. It's all a matter of perspective, and from this vantage point, it looks like a good weekend. I should be able to do another episode tonight, do condensation Friday during the day while the nikuman cook, and clip another ep or two on Sunday between whenever I stop feeling dead and when I have to leave to get in to O'B's. Next week, more not so much of the same, and then the 30th I have off again the whole day, so I ought to be able to get something done by then.
I wonder at times why I appear to be the only one who sets up their AMVs as an industrial process to such an extent, rigorously scheduling stuff and plunging directly into the next job as soon as the serial number is stamped on the one before, but looking at this pileup of other stuff in the context of a to-do list still about 15 videos deep, it starts to make a little more sense. You don't end up working on video #112 if you don't have ideas pouring out every which way, and you don't get to that point if you don't put some kind of rigor in your process to ensure that things get instantiated.
--Kai out
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that water rushing in
2009-11-17 11:22:11
SH112:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: none
- Storyboard/planning: partial
- Clipping: 0/12
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
Having gotten home late, washed the dishes from the weekend, and burned off five DVDs worth of source and ancillary files from the drives involved in video production, I didn't have a whole lot of time remaining, but I did manage to get the remainder of the source scouted and the song timed, as well as the clip selection parameters established. It's going to be interesting re-learning how to cut source with the new toolset that I have to use for this project, but hopefully I can get into a good groove with it and not have to do too much cleanup in VDub. I have effectively tonight and tomorrow to cut source; Thursday I have to start cooking, and Friday I may not be finished cooking, or have the drive needed to cut video, and then the weekend is probably going to be a total loss from various factors. We'll see.
Song timing was made significantly easier by the intervention of three facts:
- I, and even less so everyone else, can't understand what Tim is singing
- This video has nothing to do with the lyrics of the song
and, most significantly
- Parasitic didn't put a lyric sheet in with the demo
All I have available lyrics-wise, therefore, is the start of vocal blocks, which is going to be about enough. The flow of the song is pretty basic and elemental, the breakdown is a slow breakdown rather than a fast one, the division between riffs is transparent and makes good logical breaks, and most of what comes after the second stop at 2:00 is heavily influenced by Morbid Angel, and I have experience with that. This video is going to be either easy or completely impossible, and though I have no source cut as yet, it's definitely leaning towards the first.
--Kai out
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