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we've been battered and we have bled
2006-08-18 08:50:58
SH108:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: complete
- Clipping: complete
- Edit: 1:07
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
What's this? New video work after a month of silence and three blown deadlines? Inconcievable! The video is about 1/4 of the way edited, but more work is not likely in the immediate future, as I still have to do Chinese homework and then write up another full session's worth of material. I may do some more editing Sunday, but the video probably will not wrap until the end of next week -- and from there will probably go direct-to-.org.
While the work is slow and fairly hard, I've managed to surprise myself with the ability, so far, to composite what I need out of the relatively little source I have available. Whenever I start work on it again, I'll be looking at an absolutely impossible cut to replicate, but for the most part I've gotten stuff to match the 'guide track' I've got running at the bottom. With regard to that factor, I'm also glad for the band's design choices in that video and Magix's default bluescreening.
The next stretch is going to be hella difficult, but after that I get a lot more slotted clips, including a lot of apparently impossible stuff. I'm feeling a lot better about this video now that I'm actually sitting down and editing on it, even though I'm almost sure that I don't even have coverage, let alone overage. This is an uncomfortable situation for someone who once generated 4 DVDs' worth of Lagarith source for a five-minute video.
Some way or another, some time or another, it will get finished, then released, and the few people who download it will wonder if it's some kind of elaborite practical joke that they don't get, or just more evidence that 55 years of fascism, war, foreign occupation, and nuclear-driven existential terror have made everyone in Germany go *totally insane*.
The answer to that one, by the way, is YES.
--Kai out
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this is the psalm of lydia
2006-08-10 10:00:02
The six videos that had aged out have been reuploaded. Additionally, in response to Warheart's prodding, I'm going to get back to work on the video as soon as I finish this week's Chinese homework, and continue chipping at it over the weekend.
Reports on the Wacken Open Air festival from this year, which took up a lot of my time going into last weekend, can be found here:
http://munster-iv.blogspot.com/
--Kai out
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i see through you
2006-08-08 11:17:36
No progress on the video (and probably none till this weekend), but I have apparently got to a new level of "made it", with some gimboid claiming one of my videos as their own on YouTube. It's not one of the ones that suck, though, so maybe the internet does have some taste:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SZOJPttAvrE
I'm not going to actively search for other videos that have been (mis)appropriated by other people, partly because it's too much damn work and partly because I did not make them to become famous on the internet, and accordingly did not put credits for myself on anything for a long time. What I do is promote bands to people who might not otherwise be interested in them, and if other people want to continue that mission by pretending they did the editing, fine; people are still hearing Demons & Wizards that might not otherwise because they don't live in Germany, and from that point of view it doesn't really matter *whose* agency is causing it.
This much has not changed since I started; I'm not in this for recognition or accolades, and if people want to front with my gear, my mission is not negatively affected. As lame as it is to try to become famous via AMVs, it's even lamer and more pathethic to try to become famous by pretending you made stuff that was actually chopped up by other people, but if that lameness gets more people into good music, I'll be laughing my favorite bands all the way to the bank.
What has changed, though, is the commitment I have to this hobby and the time I'm willing to devote to it. Work and Chinese lessons keep me on the run, and then there is the necessary responsibilities of keeping house and writing three to five hours of material a week for a very strong and promising D&D game -- which while also nerdy is, unlike AMV, a social activity. Throw in heavy metal shows, some of which require overseas travel, the Red Sox, and occasional attacks of fiction writing, and you can see why and how AMV might fall off the radar. I do want to finish my current project, and a couple others, but I don't seriously watch anime that much any more, and I have a fairly strong installed base of videos that, if people keep filching and third-channel-propagating them, will continue to drive interest in good bands for years to come, and for the "AMV community", there's a strong enough metal presence beyond me that the underground is not going to go silent if I shut up.
I will finish at least one more video this year, though probably not more than one or two beyond that. The current project is a real spiritcrusher, though, and I may feel better about AMVing after just getting it the fuck out of the way.
--Kai out
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back to past again
2006-07-19 08:32:41
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/4376/igoe666br5.jpg
A wee bit of irony from yesterday.
In actual real news, I basically blew the AWA Pro deadline last night for #108, but did manage to export a version of #107 to Connichi-spec -- now all I have to do is get the contest coordinators to ack my submission; no idea why there isn't a FTP supported, given that they're barring uncompressed files. :P
I'm still expecting to finish #108 before Wacken, especially as I get two more weekends, and I'm probably only going to be going to one of Suffocation's two area dates next weekend. Tomorrow night, maybe a speed pass through the vobs, then editing Friday and Sunday night after I finish doing all the cooking for Monday's session.
The radical drop in my AMVing pace is highly associated with this: more work, more shows to go to, Chinese class on the weekends, the work of starting a new D&D campaign, and my tendency to do industrial-scale cooking when given enough free time. At some point, it's going to fall off the end entirely, but I still do have a few projects I want to work through before then. And most of them are going to be more fun than the current one....hopefully at least.
--Kai out
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in god we trust | on earth we die
2006-07-17 08:54:28
SH108:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: complete
- Clipping: complete
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
Finished clipping last night, but I probably won't make the Connichi deadline. The current plan is to encode #107 to their requirements after the gaming session tonight, then register and FTP it tomorrow and/or into Wednesday. If I can get this one edited and finished to AWA standard by Wednesday night, I'll buy blanks and next-day-air it in for Pro; if not, it'll go direct-to-.org and also into Expo to confuse and perplex even more people.
Still haven't started watching the anime for the next project...I'll probably do that while transcribing my Chinese notes/doing Chinese homework/listening to pronunciation CDs/writing out more D&D material while #107 encodes. Wo hen mang.....
--Kai out
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