JOURNAL: Kai Stromler (Kai Stromler)

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  • lift my spirit up 2005-07-09 08:47:08
    SH102:
    - Source rip: complete
    - Music: complete
    - Precleaning: complete
    - Storyboard/planning: partial
    - Clipping: 2/12 (in progress)
    - Edit: none
    - Postproc: none
    - Export: none

    I can't get over how good the print is on this series. I just wish I could say what it was without revealing all for AWA, which would be bad. Though it's not like, on seeing and hearing the video, it would not be immediately obvious who had chopped it together.

    The only problem with this is that unlike Steelplank, Onslaught turns *down* the screen lighting when plugged in. This is retarded and makes using it for video tasks, especially the kind that involve shoving your nose at the screen and peering around for mosquito noise, extremely troublesome. Another dilemma: do I want the power to do tasks expediently, or do I want to be able to see what I'm doing? Dumbasses -- though HP has never been known as the most clueful of computer builders.

    --Kai out


     
  • where nothing | is everything 2005-07-08 15:36:09
    I actually got out of work while it was still light out today, so I'm now attempting to get Outlook set up correctly on Onslaught, and after that, continuing to edit until it becomes "go home late", swapping the power cords in and out as one station or the other loses battery oomph.

    Also:

    SH102:
    - Source rip: complete
    - Music: complete
    - Precleaning: complete
    - Storyboard/planning: partial
    - Clipping: 1/12 (in progress)
    - Edit: none
    - Postproc: none
    - Export: none

    I'm clipping right now, and I have a plan for the edit process that is going to involve a medicine-shaped bottle and a strict schedule; hopefully, I can do that next weekend and meet my deadlines, then get moving on some other videos. I've got an ambitious schedule and commitments to include Wacken, hopefully Summer Breeze, and an important visitor from the US by the end of August. Delays and delays accumulate; fortunately this one is going to be fun, as will the next, definitely; after that the "hard work" picks up, and then I get to do my Monster project(s). There's the huge omnibus one like I did with Haibane (though more varied this time), and another two-video stand that has been taking shape as well. Of course, that's going to depend a lot on how well the TV follows the manga; I haven't been keeping up with the fansubs, rationalizing that I know the story and I'm eventually going to be buying it on R2 regardless.

    I do have other stuff to do over the weekend, but clipping is where it's at; clipping and probably watching Marimite, of which I'm nearly done downloading Haru. I like this show (SHOUJO GOOD! IMPLIED LESBIANISM ALSO GOOD!), and wish that I had had access to the Maria-sama ni Naisho omake clips while AMV Hell was still recruiting. I don't know what I would have gunned up, but I could have done something.

    --Kai out


     
  • down to half mast 2005-07-06 18:41:34
    SH102:
    - Source rip: complete
    - Music: complete
    - Precleaning: complete
    - Storyboard/planning: partial
    - Clipping: 0/12
    - Edit: none
    - Postproc: none
    - Export: none

    It's been more than three years since I last did the radio show, and a long time since I taped myself doing it, and I forgot that my voice sounds like Peter Steele on heavy tranquilizers. (This isn't something that I would have noticed on the various demos that I've recorded, thanks to bad equipment and deathgrowl/blackscream vocal styles.) Postprod time! I really should have gotten someone else to voiceact this, but if I can make Fler sound like Dieter, I can make me sound less like an earthquake.

    So yes, there are probably going to be original vocal parts in SH102. What they are, or how they relate to what the rest of the video is doing, will not be revealed yet. And obviously, I'm going to be digitally tooling on them, so my real voice won't be revealed either.

    Having a working real microphone opens up a whole range of possiblilities -- or would if I had musical gear on this continent. Time to go to Zoundhouse.......

    --Kai out


     
  • descanting the insalubrious 2005-07-05 08:31:18
    Yes, I finally gave in and joined one of those blog/online-life thingies. Despite not having much of an interesting real life, let alone one online.

    http://www.myspace.com/kkstromler

    Of course, this means that all the boring crap that has nothing to do with AMV that occasionally takes this record offtopic will be appearing somewhere else. I'm still going to keep up my usual mediocre standards for writing and newsworthiness, so expect more of "general reactions to living in an unfamiliar country" and less of "man, I could really go for some kebab right now".

    http://blog.myspace.com/kkstromler


    I should be doing the last piece of source preparation for #102 tonight, then setting stuff up for editing tomorrow night, maybe doing some clipping. Work is getting a little tight, but I'm pretty sure the office will be suficiently empty at midnight that I can do what I need to. It's not so much "these rites can only be worked under the light of the horned moon" as "I don't have enough foam and egg cartons to do this at home".

    As should be evinced, SH102 is going to be very strange and on the borders of "AMV" and something totally different that I can't really describe; partly because the video is aimed at a blind-judged contest and partly because even I don't know for sure. It's looking like an experiment in blended narratives, but with the video still uncomplete I'm not sure how accurate that's going to be or to what extent the various narratives are going to be developed.

    I should stop thinking about what this is going to be and start bringing it into existence; I can do cogitation while sitting around the machine, but it doesn't help the video get done any faster.

    --Kai out


     
  • down where i am 2005-07-04 16:59:31
    No video work over the weekend -- too much crap to deal with and then I went a-Wandervogeling over the Heide and ended up in Langebrueck; it's a good thing Germany has such good public transportation, in the case of "foreigner gets lost and ends up several miles further east and less south than intended". In Maine this would have been just a case of continuing to steer by the sun and hope that I hit the river before my legs gave out.

    I did however get the necessary equipment, but setting it up correctly is going to be tricky, and I won't be able to use it properly until tomorrow, postponing any real video work to Wednesday night. All these constraints: time, working hours, and adapter access. I've seriously got to get myeself a new power cable for Onslaught; 1 adapter, 2 computers is just not fucking happening.

    offtopic:
    _Touched By The Crimson King_ is pretty good, but I definitely get the feeling that it's the sort of metal record that I appreciate largely because I've made it all the way to 25 nearly intact. Such is not the same with _Issue VI_; extreme technical thrash knows no season nor tide of life.

    --Kai out


     
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