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rosen auf mein weisses kleid
2006-07-12 11:22:25
SH108:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: complete
- Clipping: 12/16
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
Despite having to wake up at 4AM this morning to sit around on call for an install that actually didn't end up happening (repeat tomorrow), I did manage to punch through the third DVD last night, though I didn't pick up nearly as many shots as I would have liked to. I've got maybe 30/90 planned shots, and I'm not sure if I have enough suitable or plain random material to fill the rest in.
The great problem with this is the way that anime does shot selection; the video I'm working from is based on a single camera angle, with most of the action in mid-body shots; anime just doesn't do this, because it's too much work for too little payoff compared to either tight facial closeups or long shots, where there a lot of non-moving parts of the picture to spread detail on. Of course, there's the difficulty that a lot of the shots I'm looking for have no reason to exist in this anime, but more often the problem is that the composition is just wrong.
Four vobs left, then a review pass; I'm still on schedule for Connichi and AWA Pro, but it will be damned, damned tight. I still need to buy shipping hulls and blanks as well....
--Kai out
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this is the end
2006-07-11 08:57:47
SH108:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: complete
- Clipping: 8/16
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
Got through the second DVD last night, so I'm ahead of schedule; I only have about 20 of the 90 shots I need, though, so the fact that Thursday and Friday are now free for doing a fast second pass on the source has become a lot more significant. Sure, I've got 74 separate cuts, but only 20 of them are explicitly keyed to one of the entries in the storyboard. Exact 1-1 correspondence is probably not going to happen, but I'm quite surprised at some of the "impossible" stuff that I've gathered so far.
The other good news about the accelerated clipping pace is that now, Saturday night is free for editing as well...and the arduousness of matching stuff in will probably mean that I'll need this. I'm looking much more forward to seeing the finished video than I am to actually editing it.
--Kai out
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reconquering the throne
2006-07-10 10:11:01
SH108:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: complete
- Clipping: 4/16
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
Four vobs in, and I'm doing an okay job of getting the easy shots, but less good at getting the impossible ones. If I can do two vobs a night through the week (easier now that the Cup is over and baseball is on their All-Star break) I'll be in position to start editing Sunday...provided I get all my shots, and this will indeed mean working all day to get encodes done as well to mail to Alabama with blanks and FTP in to Germany on Monday. NO SLEEP TILL......
On the off chance that anyone actually is reading this, if you or someone you know has a four-year degree in a CS- or engineering-related field and a basic knowledge of computer hardware and software plus a high tolerance for short-lead-time international travel, let me know (over email or PM), because my section is hiring. No semiconductor-industry experience necessary, just the basics mentioned above and the ability to pick everything else up rapidly. More details will be provided privately to those interested.
--Kai out
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time to find my brain
2006-07-05 09:01:17
SH108:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: complete
- Clipping: 0/16
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
The source requires very little in the way of cleanup, and I did manage to block out all the shots needed -- even to the point of doing up a scratch/guide track for plotting time/frame equivalence. I think I'm going to just crank the video up to 25 fps rather than mess around with having to plot 23.976 against 25...but this doesn't really solve the vertical aspect problems.
The bigger problem, of course, is collecting all the shots I need to, which will be possible (I think) but extremely difficult. I don't have a checksheet done yet, and I'm going to need one to keep everything straight on this project; fortunately, unless the heat breaks tonight I won't be in much of a mood to cut stuff. 2 weeks to deadline.
--Kai out
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that will quiet me
2006-06-29 08:18:41
SH108:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: none
- Storyboard/planning: none
- Clipping: 0/16
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
Finished ripping and indexing stuff last night, so I should be set to set up my filtering and do the storyboard tonight. Cleanup will be minimal, because the print on this anime is fairly amazing (probably have to kill fucking rainbows, but I can get over that), but storyboarding will be somewhat time-consuming, and I'm not sure how I'm going to track shots. Still, it's only 4:16 that I have to get out of 13 episodes, so it shouldn't be absolutely impossible.
In older news, I figured how to get the number I wanted out of the next two videos, mostly by bending rules and treating them as a single video. Conceptually, Project Haibane is a single video that has four numbers, so these two can be seen as differing sides of the same video, and thus packable under the same number. Unfortunately, they'll be going to AWA Expo rather than Pro, the deadline for which comes hot on the heels of Connichi; if I can finish this one on time, it may go there as well just to weird people out. The concept will be lost on anyone not from Germany, and the release dynamics will mean that sending it to Connichi won't break Pro confidentiality.
I still haven't sorted all my ideas out, but these should provide ample material for a while. I have shows coming up, including one overseas, and new weekend commitments to the tune of 3 hours of Chinese instruction for the next couple months, and I still do have to work at my real job as well. These and a couple ideas that will fall in behind them will probably account for the rest of the year...two "magnum opus"-class projects will go into next year.
--Kai out
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