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the seed awakening begins
2005-09-12 05:58:49
SH104:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: roughed
- Clipping: complete
- Edit: 0:06
- Postproc: none
- Export: trial intro
Please xcuse any ltter omissions in this post; the 'e' key on my keyboard is not working consistently right now. Stupid HP POS laptop -- th processor's quality, but that's about it.
I wasn't planning to do any editing last night, but did anyways and got ahead of schedule. The resulting 6-second trial is available on request, but unfortunately will basically give away the whole joke of the video. I may change this, but it's pretty damn funny right out of the gate, and if I can keep it up, the video will be pretty sweet.
The rest of the source was not as overwhelmingly crappy as the first DVD, and I was able to scale back to 7/60 on smart smoother. I think I actually took it back to 7/40 on the last two discs, because I was actually losing some detail (on scenes I didn't end up clipping). It doesn't look either gravelled or oversmoothed at export resolution, which is what's important. I'm probably going to end up editing the song to remove some repetitive crap -- the whole song is crap, but this part is particularly unnecessary, and gives me less music to have to cover by nearly 30 seconds. I don't think it takes out any of the vocals, though -- and that is going to be the main challenge as I move forward, trying to at least stay on schedule, if not ahead like I am now.
--Kai out
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generation we should have known
2005-09-09 05:03:13
SH104:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: roughed
- Clipping: 2/20 (in progress)
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
This source looks like absolute dirt -- or would if I did not have Donald Graft's Smart Smoother, also known as the destitute man's digital remastering system. It's also fortunate that there's basically no detail in the original drawings, so I can smooth like hell (using 9/80 for settings) and not worry about losing line and color information as was the case, notably, on Requiem. This source is just not oversmoothable -- though all the smoothing in the world won't get all the interlacing out. Of course, the people this is targeted at really don't care about video quality, but that's no real excuse for making it look this bad.
Distribution has some more game trials, and there's a lot to do on the video this weekend. I should try to get out at some point, but the schedule (still on schedule) and the prospect of gaming in a language I don't understand may be too strong a counterinducement.
--Kai out
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many times before your birth
2005-09-08 05:29:26
SH104:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: roughed
- Clipping: 0/20
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
For this project, which is using PAL source from something done in analog and not very well mastered to digital, I'm using smart smoother settings at a larger radius and nearly as strong as I did to clean up X/1999. Fortunately, this show is at a low natural framerate, so more of the interlacing gets lost on still frames, but it's still probably going to lok like crud. I may try redoing these settings with different parameters for telecide(), as it's likely (given the audio involved on the discs), that this was ground into 25FPS PAL from 30FPS NTSC. <shiver>.
It's a good thing this video isn't serious, because if it was I wouldn't do it. To any unconvinced Euro editors out there: stay away from PAL like a nasty disease, and order discs from somewhere where the TVs do 59.95 fields per second.
I am actually ahead of schedule on this one, but more surprising than that might be that I have an actual schedule, written down, and am following it. That's way too professionalesque for how I approach this hobby, but this one does need to be done by the 20th, so breaking down the process and sticking to it is kind of necessary. There's about five days of give, so accounting for work, soccer, and recently purchased Wes Craven movies, I should come in right under the wire.
--Kai out
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junkmail for jesus
2005-09-07 04:14:11
SH104:
- Source rip: none
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: none
- Storyboard/planning: roughed
- Clipping: none
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
So I decided on the "Kaufland special" as SH104, because while xotox's "Rhythmuskaputt" is an interesting piece of music, it'd be very difficult to force people to play the video loud enough to take full effect (and as a side note, I need better headphones). This is pushed into the future, so I do the 'fun' video now and the two dark and depressing ones after.
Of course, this has some major downsides as well: I have to work with PAL footage, probably with full-interlacing instead of a proper 25-fps-accelerated-film presentation, and the end product will make everyone in Europe want to kill me. It starts tonight -- we'll see how far into the 15 eps I get.
I may also need to score some downloaded combo scenes or ROMs for a certain section, so the source may not be completely assembled yet, but I'll try to avoid it; the related video games were out when the Vorbild for this was done, and were not used, so I technically shouldn't either.
--Kai out
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did you remember to feed me
2005-09-05 05:01:29
SH103:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: eh
- Clipping: complete
- Edit: 4:09
- Postproc: none
- Export: 1:53-preview
SH103 is within striking distance of completion and will probably wrap by the time I go in to pick the necessary files off the machine, with upload to follow sometime tonight. This is after being nearly cancelled Sunday morning due to a confidence crisis Saturday night. It's probably not going to be a good or great video, but I do feel that at least in part, I'm getting back to the flow and off-the-cuffness that got me started in this hobby.
I'm currently undecided on what SH104 is going to be. I have a standing idea that I want to do, but I need to listen to the song again, and it's going to probably be bastard hard. On the other hand, I have a "Kaufland special" idea that I picked up over the weekend that I should not make, ever, but will probably end up doing so because I worship the devil. And if I want to do that, I kind of have to finish and upload the video by the 20th. Congruences and stuff.
After that, two beastly hard, long, serious videos that will probably take nearly all of the fall. All I need is an "up" video to do after them; these two will turn out brutally dark and mournful and I'll be needing something fast and whack. I'm sure I've got some kind of suitable idea on the schedule......
--Kai out
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