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forever will take what is mine
2009-10-06 16:17:22
SH111:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: complete
- Clipping: complete
- Edit: 2:52/5:01
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
Last entry's "Edit:" quote should have been at 2:46, but losing track of stuff like this happens sometimes when you get sick. Half of my normal working hours yesterday were spent sleeping, and most of the rest watching ZetsuSen and catching up on housework; this should give a rough indication of what kind of energy reserves I had available towards evening to work on the video. Nevertheless, I got another 6 seconds through before heading off to watch most of the (ultimately disappointing) MNF game and spontaneously reenact parts from several Always Sunny episodes at my brother's place. Leave that one lie....
I'm still checking the schedule, but based on current progress this video is going to wrap either this weekend or soon after, probably sometime late Sunday. Physical ailments and the fact that the coming third verse and third chorus are going to be bastard-hard to edit are already figured into this quote; the real issue is if I can throw myself into this one and kill this goddamned project off. More or less, there are six two-hour blocks between where I am and the end; two to three of those in the week and the rest on the weekend is eminently achievable. Maybe output processing will hang over another day, but at this point I prefer to believe that finishing this one will have me snorting fire and unsatisfied until I have something distributable built out....and that seriously, this isn't as hard as it used to be, maybe half an hour, most of which can be spent half asleep.
Realistically, I would be extremely surprised if this did not wrap before the end of next week -- and that's something I haven't really been honestly able to say since February. The process on this has been longer and harder than strictly necessary, but the video is going to finish, and there is almost definitely going to be a SH112 after it in some shape or form. Maybe even by the end of the year. Progress. Renewal. Re-creation.
(of course, nothing says that either of these are going to be particularly good or anything.....)
--Kai out
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tumbling down
2009-10-05 16:29:41
SH111:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: complete
- Clipping: complete
- Edit: 2:48/5:01
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
Despite best intentions, I didn't get the whole chorus done last night. About 12 seconds remain. However, despite hitting Magix's "complexity wall" and having to back out a cut, rebuild the video track, and additionally fix a a bunch of cuts that were frustratingly stuck in interlace mode (hint, don't bump up the speed if you have overlays in different tracks that are not modded to run at the same framerate), I still managed to get about 10 seconds of said chorus finished AND do a preview track at the desired frame dimensions.
This video is, per the source films, being prepared for widescreen. However, because I like being able to do visual effects and see what they look like in that process rather than waiting until post to see what I screwed up -- and because my environment is kind of old and clunky and won't support 848x480 -- it's being done in 640x360 letterboxed to 640x480. (The original source wasn't anamorphic, so no harm no foul.) Also, because I'm lazy and don't want to make a five-minute matte track to block out all the parts of various effects clips that go outside the borders of what's going to be present in the final version, all "dailies" have an unfortunate habit of distracting the viewer with random shit coloring outside the lines, which substantially contributes to the effects fatigue associated with this video discussed earlier. Finally doing an explicit Xvid preview gets around this; the effects aren't as distracting, and I was surprised in one instance that now cuts together very cleanly and obviously that I had apparently edited drunk or otherwise forgotten about after plastering over it with random lines. All in all, encouraging.
Unfortunately, I got sick over the weekend and more progress in the immediate future is not likely as opposed to more sleeping. Completion approaches, but slowly.
--Kai out
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getting drafted set me free
2009-10-04 07:37:38
SH111:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: complete
- Clipping: complete
- Edit: 2:38/5:01
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
The second verse is now done, and after the Rangers game, I hope to put the second chorus in that category as well. Things are looking up, though I'm starting to get a little tired of the effects design. Maybe it's just me and having to look at it constantly, though; every day in the tedious process of actually putting in the effects (and heavy effects work is tedious, no doubt about it), then every night watching dailies.
I'm looking at two potential choices for the next project; one's been on deck forever and the other is new within the last couple days. Both need some evaluation, but that's coming along -- and it's not like SH111 is just going to magically finish itself in the next day or so, so there's time to do the evaluation
--Kai out
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small progress seems futile
2009-09-28 21:22:36
SH111:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: complete
- Clipping: complete
- Edit: 2:28/5:01
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
I'm not going to call it just yet, but it's looking a lot like this video just became half-finished; I'm nearly to the end of the second verse, leaving one verse and two choruses, plus the last bit of blow-shit-up. Five seconds is not a good quote for half an hour, but it's about all the stress I can put on my still-broken finger (I did the Merseburg Charm on it last night, but apparently that only works on horses -- or is complete useless superstition) at one go. Tomorrow is laundry and Wednesday is Revocation; I'm looking at more free time on the weekend, and hopefully the damn finger will be slightly improved by then.
Looking over tonight's build, I really like the way I handled the first chorus. Unfortunately, that means I have to top the explosion of editing and creative effects on the two remaining choruses without using the same or a similar clip vocabulary, something that is already becoming difficult. In a video where memory is a prominent theme, you can get away with a little more in the way of repetition, and I have a good store of untouched material for the last chorus and final scratch break, but that second chorus is going to be troublesome. Establishing flow has gotten a little easier, but this has all been verse stuff: I need to not only pull out all the stops, but be sure that there are still stops to be pulled left unpulled to that point, reserves to be thrown in.
I'm also kind of getting the competition/public showing bug again, but that means taking time out of production to dig out the Lags master of SH110 and massage it to requirements, something I'm not sure I have a lot of patience for. No matter when I finish this, any remotely competitive exhibition outside central Europe is going to be a moot point. When it's done, it's direct-to-.org; when I start doing videos in English again, I can start sending them to US cons.
--Kai out
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i'm broken
2009-09-25 12:30:35
No, literally. I broke the last digit in my right middle finger trying to keep someone from splitting their head open on one of Martyrvore's cabs during Summoning Hate last night, and now have half the fingers on my mouse hand effectively immobilized. Not fun, and it is going to fuck with the schedule.
SH Remasters Project: The Absurdly Long Upload Struggle
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local: 68/69
indirect: 40/40
O-wattan des. No more uploads/deletes till I finish redoing SH038. It's interesting to note that when I (re)started uploads/deletes this month, the system thought I had used about 901 GB of bandwidth all time. Now, despite the large number of videos on the "new downloads" list generating about 7GB more than might have been historically expected for this month, it thinks I'm on 839 GB. Ballpark; 70 GB, or about 2 years of normal operation "saved". I had little patience for idiots who couldn't figure out how to compress their works the last time I was active; with evidence like this I'm going to be fucking insufferable now.
I'm going to try to stay on pace with SH111, but major hand injury means schedule slippage. It's a good thing I don't have a con deadline for this thing hanging over me or anything,
--Kai out
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