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du warst die einzige
2009-01-17 21:23:36
SH111:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: 4/9
- Storyboard/planning: none
- Clipping: 4/9
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
At long last, I am done clipping the first of these two movies. I have no idea how the official print looks on this -- and given the state of the pirate's art, it may be as bad as what I've got -- but the laboriousness of the process here is a firm warning to anyone else who thinks that picking up source at grocery stores in Beijing is a good, rather than merely cost-effective, way to approach AMVage. I still need to get set up to process the other movie, but I think I'm in fairly good shape; I've got about 9 gig of source in the books for a 5-minute video, and the current indicator is that I'll need maybe a gig and a half. This "current indicator" is the Lags conversion of On Your Mark (minus the audio, so don't ask for it to get warezd), which was delivered on this DVD as a bonus. Since I haven't actually released 038 in its current remastered form, I was idly thinking about re-tracking the video after the current project wraps, but the last time I did something like that, I ended up doing more than I bargained for, and something like this doesn't deserve another catalog number.
Upload plan is still up in the air, and I'm busy tomorrow....somehow, I'll make it work out and start getting videos actually out.
--Kai out
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nicht mehr drin
2009-01-13 22:46:58
SH111:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: 4/9
- Storyboard/planning: none
- Clipping: 2/9
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
I'm now reasonably confident that the settings I've got established so far will hold for the remainder of the DVD currently under survey. While it has rather horrid rainbowing and some other color problems, at least it's not changing field order randomly. Of course, the fact that each VOB is taking about 4 hours to completely cut through and the fact that I seem to be incapable of getting out of work and back home before about 19:30 means that clipping on this will wrap on the weekend at the earliest, and likely push into next week as well. This puts the overall schedule in trouble, and doesn't include the knock-on effect of uploads.
Basically, my upload ability is constrained by the weather, the end of my on-call shift, and how close these elements are to the 23rd of each month. Yes, it's bizarre, but the wireless broadband account I use for working from home has a 5-GB soft cap per month before I start getting charged for overage. If I'm not using it for work, I'm paying for it anyway, so after my on-call shift finishes Friday night, I can take stock of how much transfer I've got left, then plan out what's getting uploaded and get it done (including deletion requests) between then and the 23rd, when the account resets. There'll be a second pass in February; all told, I'm looking at about 4 GB of uploads. In with them, hopefully, will be some version of SH111, but I'm not holding my breath on that.
--Kai out
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a request | never to be
2009-01-11 22:19:30
SH111:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: 2/9
- Storyboard/planning: none
- Clipping: 1.5/9
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
So far, I've spent a little less than eight hours clipping a VOB and a half. I'm doing OK on source collection, though, and I think I'm actually getting shots that I'm going to use, rather than stuff that can't fit in anywhere, even if I'm not "cutting in the camera" as hard as I might. Since I have the drivespace for the source, I might as well use it, and this is a five-minute video after all; extra overage to match in in those places where I don't have lyrics to follow is always appreciated.
I lost a little time due to VDub crashing on me while I was trying to establish if the field order had changed on me or not (it hadn't). Fortunately, this was a field order check, so I had the frame number I was going to look at written down, and didn't have to scan back to my last point manually. Unfortunately, Virtual Dub, at least in my version, doesn't really support saving one's filter chain for future use, so I had to rebuild that. Luckily, this wasn't hard; smart smoother remembers your old settings, and SS-IQ I knew was set to "drive over the footage with a truck" power -- the only way to get out the persistent and in places ridiculous rainbowing. Because the frame sizes were different between the sources, I had the cropping params written down as well, so in the end nothing of value was lost. If I was doing this processing in AviSynth, though, I wouldn't've lost anything, and maybe, given my system, this is what I should be doing. Personally, though, I like having the ability to tune filters interactively to get the results I want...even if the paradoxial position of a colorblind visual artist gets me in trouble, as on SH097 where I tried to fix the colors on that ridiculous excuse for a DVD print, and ended up screwing up the HSV so bad that reds were getting rendered green and purple. No idea what the hell was going on there.
This aside, the extensive clip-render stretches have given me a lot of time to think, and as a result, I have a decent idea what I need to do for the beats mentioned in the last update. I'm going to need to listen through the song again to be sure, then actually make the templates, but unlike INSO06, the last time I tried to do something like this, I'm much better acquainted with the idea of a NLE and the capabilities that this particular environment has. Sure, it's going to look played out, but at least it's going to look like something.
--Kai out
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die meisten meiner feinde
2009-01-10 21:02:49
SH111:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: 1/9
- Storyboard/planning: none
- Clipping: 0.4/9
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
I've got about a gig of source so far (Lags, 24 fps for the math-obsessed), but I can state almost definitively that the schedule is going to slip. If I'm going to run this diseased rat bastard operating system, I need to redo my hardware from the ground up. It's technically on schedule to do this -- I rebuilt Keystone in 2001 from a 1998 initial build, and I haven't done anything to Battlefreak since building it in 2004 except throw more harddrives into it. Of course, even with a reasonable operating system on it, I was still only pushing 2 fps with this kind of filter load, but still.
Similarly, if I do another hip-hop video ever again, it will be too soon. Long renders leave a lot of time in the clipping process where I'm not actively doing anything, which is time to listen closely down into the song. There are going to be a lot of cuts in this, and I'm not sure I have the effects chops -- or, hell, even the resources -- to handle the beats that I don't -- or in some cases *can't* -- cut on. One way or another, it's going to get done, and if this wasn't a challenging project, there'd be no point in doing it.
That being said, there's another video off this same record on the schedule already, and honestly, looking at the list, everything else is even harder, either in editing requirements, source volume, or often both. As has been previously noted, if I can do this, I can handle the stuff further down the line -- it just remains to be seen if I can handle this.
--Kai out
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tae think again
2009-01-09 19:54:18
Work (and, to be honest, Higurashi) has kind of prevented me from working on the current video for most of this week, but there is some kind-of video progress to report. Today I got in an eBay order I'd placed a week or so back, and now I have my production slate lined up till about the end of the year. There's only nine videos on it, including the current one, which should indicate I'm being properly conservative about pace, but even at that the schedule may slip.
The DVDs in question are the rest of MB (not bootleg, amazingly -- factory sealed and two still with the pencil board) that I didn't buy because I was in Germany when it was being released. This means that the video in question is an old, old, idea, the correct completion of which will mean that the last of about five ideas hastily scribbled into a notebook in October or November of 2000 is going to be instantiated as a video. What implications this has for my 'career' as an AMV editor continuing beyond that point are kind of in doubt, but the video in question isn't due to start work until October this year anyways, and I still have to prove that I'm active by finishing the project I'm on currently.
--Kai out
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