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ice | cold | winterland
2006-04-24 11:22:04
SH106:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: little needed
- Storyboard/planning: none
- Clipping: none
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
I busted out INSO10 for the graveyard contest in a total of like 4.5 hours over the weekend, and while the "crappy" build is out for the contest, I also did a "good" build that I may distro as an extra sometime. This is the basis for SH106, which will use the full version of the same song and a version of the video source without fucking TV timecodes on it. It's going to be, in all likelihood, completely different, so these really are two distinct videos. The video that is going to Connichi will be #107, but I don't anticipate working on that at all until after Fanime's deadline -- May 5th is a short time away, and Metalfest is going to take up literally my entire weekend.
I think I'm done crushing all my old CD burns over onto DVD. If only there was something similar, and similarly easy, that would allow me to similarly compress my VHS fansub collection.
--Kai out
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we are back where we belong
2006-04-20 10:29:06
#106, as being composed of Bruce Springsteen and Initial D, is cancelled. The first part of the song was too literal for what I wanted to do with it, and it just wasn't working. This being said, INSO10 is now on the blocks and may well be edited over the weekend; I have the important task of taking all my empties back to the liquor store and buying new bootlaces tonight, and then probably going in to club Friday night, so there will be time for a spate of clipping, but little else.
After that, "real 106" gets rolling again for Connichi, and then I promise to switch gears and do something else rather than multiple projects on the same anime if there's time before Fanime's deadline. Given that INSO10 is for the "AMV Graveyard" contest, I may just fix and expand it to send in to Fanime before I do the Connichi project.
Source loading for INSO10 is done, song editing will go in tonight, and then after that will be source loading for #106. This is only 5 DVDs, and one of those I'll only need a small part of.
--Kai out
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creating armies on either shore
2006-04-12 10:25:37
This month's swack of re-uploads is going in, fortunately covering only 4 videos, and NONE of the Sentenced ones. Yatta. I'm going to have to keep on my toes in the future, as Megaupload.com's time to termination has dropped from 30 to 21 days. This is entirely reasonable as their server load scales, but makes my accounting for low-demand videos that much harder. I should really be getting my own hosting for some of these, but I've got work to do, shows to see, and an apartment to set up and furnish, so actually getting a site set up is somewhat in the future.
Work on #106 should resume in the somewhat nearer future; I moved the source from the truckdrive to Battlefreak this morning and don't anticipate that being sick and dealing with housing stuff will utterly consume the weekend. Once this is edited I'll put up the catalog entries for it and #105, and as previously mentioned it will be released direct-to-.org.
After that, I've been up in the air, but I'm probably going to come down with a parody video for Connichi that will be absolutely impenetrable to anyone who has not lived in a German-speaking country, and probably to a significant portion of those who have as well. This will be after I get moved into my apartment and dig out the requisite DVDs; I've got one of them sitting by my workstation already, but there's no anime on that.
--Kai out
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reaching for the moonshield
2006-04-05 11:53:13
I'm currently planning to take my work laptop out of AMV service one project early; editing on it is a failed enterprise in my current situation because setting it up for such purposes is a pain, and a time-consuming one at that, which I can't afford in a situation where I go to work at 7 in the morning and usually don't get home till 6. The transfer should be smooth, and additionally ensure that I don't run out of space on here for my actual work data.
The other great advantage of switching is that I finally have free space to work with again; I don't know that I could even put out #106 given only 6GB of workable space. Back on Battlefreak, this will finally stop being an issue.
Of course, the remaining issue is when the hell I am actually going to *do* this editing; normally, the weekend might show some promise, but I'm going in to MITAC on Friday (hopefully a regular occurrance), out to Worcester on Saturday night for Morbid Angel (a mode of event hopefully going to recur more often), and probably spending all day Saturday hunting the elusive Livable Apartment. I suppose that it all comes down to priorities, but if you prioritize slicing up cartoons above seeing live bands....well.....I'm not sure I can understand that.
--Kai out
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it's your decay
2006-03-27 12:22:24
The following is excerpted from the "concept statement" required for Anime Boston this year. How I reacted to the idea of this being a part of the entry form ought to be kind of obvious from the text.
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1) Please provide a brief outline of how you created your video, including how long it took to create the video from start to finish, what programs you used to create and edit your video, and how you decided what footage to select for your video.
This video was edited using an X-acto knife and Scotch tape, over several nights filled with coffee, brandy, and Creedence Clearwater Revival on the hi-fi. There were some groovy tapestries involved as well. No, really, why the hell does this even matter? Time and tools have nothing to do with the final product, and this caption adds basically no value to any rational judging process. If it matters, this video was cut over about 2 months in Virtual Dub and edited together over about a week in Magix.
2) What is your video concept?
See video; if it's not self-evident, then it's either being deliberately obscure and the creator won't tell you here, or it can't stand on its own without a ream of liner notes, and as such doesn't really have a concept in the first place.
3) What are you hoping to achieve?
A video that doesn't suck. Is there any other possible answer to this question? If you watch a video that's trying to achieve something concrete and still have to ask, guess what: IT FAILED.
This entire statement submitted under protest, because I feel it has no point as regards judging AMVs.
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And that was basically it. I did one of the two ops, but also rebuilt my home workstation complex and started redoing my taxes. The last one wil follow tonight/tomorrow, and with it maybe some work on #106. Looking ahead, there's a video on the slate that will probably require me to do some reverse engineering and actual development....I've got the tools in place and it'll be professionally useful, but I don't know how successful it's going to be. Could be easy, could be so difficult as to make the entire project a bad risk.
--Kai out
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