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on judgment day
2006-06-27 09:04:45
SH108:
- Source rip: 4/5
- Music: none
- Precleaning: none
- Storyboard/planning: none
- Clipping: none
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
#107 is finished, and the entry at least is up, though the video will not join it for another 2 1/2 months. I took yesterday off to finish it (huzzah for more vacation than you know what to do with), and even did manage to finish the final distro encode last night as well. Source rip for #108 is now under way, and will finish tonight after I get #107 built to convention standard and burnt off.
As stated before, this video is going to be heavily storyboarded, because it's a shot-for-shot remake of an existing text. This is going to be done either tonight or tomorrow. Then begins the much longer and more difficult process of actually finding sufficient shots in the applicable anime to match in, and figuring out a way to tag them so I know what the hell I'm doing when it comes time for assembly. Hopefully I'll be able to leverage some time over the coming long weekend to punch through a lot of this; July is becoming dangerously close and transatlantic shipping becomes prohibitively expensive as t->0.
--Kai out
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bleak roll the cosmic sea
2006-06-23 08:17:02
SH107:
- Source rip: basically complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: none
- Clipping: 5/7
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
Two VOBs cut through today; I'm busy tonight, so the plan is to cut the last one tomorrow morning and then re-rip #5, which does not respond well to either field order. I have like 12GB of source, though, so I'm probably not going to be scraping for shots...though with this video, I don't think that I can relax before having everything I can get at least scanned through.
I have more vacation than I know what to do with, so I may take the coming Monday and the one following it off to be sure I get the next video out for Connichi. This one will probably wrap over the weekend, but this still doesn't leave a lot of time to finish #108 and send them both to Germany. If the submission deadline were a little later, I could hand-carry them over, but as I won't be making landfall in Hamburg until 2 weeks after the deadline, they gotta go per Post.
--Kai out
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witches burn the fatal sin
2006-06-21 07:49:24
SH107:
- Source rip: basically complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: none
- Clipping: 3/7
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
In the future, when the Sox are up by 6 runs in the second inning against one of the league's worst defensive teams, I should just assume they win and go work on the video; by not doing so, I gave away about an hour, maybe an hour and a half of cutting time, which is about a full VOB. I did get some work done, and also some effects work in getting an idea of what I'm going to have to do to get certain shots rebalanced. This is more intensive than fixing the lighting in #105, because the whole point is to turn day shots into night shots, and that involves changing colors correctly, not just making things darker.
I'm still on target for Connichi, though time is definitely running down. If I can finish clipping by the end of the week and then turn around the editing on the weekend, I should be in position to roll immediately over into #108....for which I technically ought to be ripping stuff, but inertial, not workload, has been and will likely remain the major barrier to effort.
--Kai out
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life of death becoming clearer
2006-06-20 09:46:09
The three SH videos that were hosted by Globocide until farlo's domain got jacked are now back up through megaupload; what is more surprising is that there are several videos that I though would have aged out which did not. I'll check again next week, but hopefully these will stay functioning.
As soon as the damned heat breaks here, I'll be back to work on #107. There are videos that I could do drowning in my own sweat, but this is not really one of them. Fortunately, there are allegedly some thundershowers on the way, and a single full night of rain will probably give me enough working time to finish clipping.
--Kai out
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won't take too long
2006-06-13 08:01:58
SH107:
- Source rip: basically complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: none
- Clipping: 2/7
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
I am now really under the gun, given the complexity of the next video and the looming Connichi deadline, so it gets more and more frustrating all the time that this movie will just plain not rip correctly. This pass resulted in only one VOB of material that I have to re-rip, as all the others will respond to either one field order or the other. It's still a pain, and will still require extra time on the weekend, which ought to be pushed entirely into editing.
In preparation for #108, I've simplified the concept a little in order to push clipping faster. It's still 13 episodes, but if I can know to ignore shots in advance, it may go a little better. If this works out, I may storyboard more videos in the future....this one is made infinitely easier in that someone has already effectively storyboarded it for me.
After #108 will come two slightly related projects that will probably burn well into September if they come together at all (still need to survey the video source to confirm). I'd most prefer to do one as #108 and one as #110 (as they'd add to 218, which should give away the musical artist involved to those in the know), but the schedule is just not there if I want to get the video currently blocked as #108 to Connichi. 26 episodes on 13 minutes, none of which I've watched yet; no way to fit even half that in the next 36 days, let alone do another video as well.
This is as far as I'm projecting work; this could drag on to the end of the year if I have to go overseas more than anticipated, and I really need to get my ideas list collated into one place so that I can make proper sense of it and figure out what projects I want to tackle in the future. I don't even know how many ideas I've got kicking around, let alone how many I still believe in and feel I'll be able to deliver properly on.
--Kai out
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