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crying tears of a mandrake
2005-05-25 15:05:33
No progress on the video; I was reading Monster (in English) and Gals! (in German, another v1 from Kaufland) today and working on expense reports; I gotta get through this one, but there's more business tomorrow. And I stupidly promised Zarx two AMV Hell 0 tracks that I don't have video source for....
If it's not one thing, it's another....and the new release isn't going to make tonight's shift any easier to take.......unless it runs properly straight out of the box -- like that's ever going to happen.
--Kai out
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wo es still ist
2005-05-24 15:15:49
SH101:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: none
- Clipping: none
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
Waiting on a new release........should have brought my power cord in to the office so I could do some clipping. As it is, I'll probably do that tomorrow night before work. I'm really uncertain about what kind of time and memory demands my system is going to be under; this'll be the first SH video on this station from DVD, so a lot could go quite slowly.
I've also been continuing to re-read Monster, and now have a short list of places in Dresden that have appeared in the story. SOmeday when I actually get a day off, I'll have to go around (mostly just in the Pragerstrasse/Hauptbahnhof area) and take pictures to replicate the panels in question. One of them requires getting rather high up in the train station, which I'm not sure is possible; but if Urasawa-sensei could do it ten years ago, I can do it now........or at least get arrested and have my residency permit revoked trying.
--Kai out
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surrounded yet isolated
2005-05-22 14:41:02
SH101:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: partial
- Storyboard/planning: none
- Clipping: none
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
Did some basic work on this this morning/afternoon, just basically setting stuff up for footage cleaning. I didn't have Smart Smoother on this station, but do need it to really dust up the source, which looks incredible straight out of the box. Again, the field order seems to be bolloxed vis-a-vis Vic's guide, so I'm getting the decided impression that he got it wrong originally, or some logic somewhere in my system is backwards. Once the params are all set, I'll be ready to start chopping, probably tomorrow or the day after; need to run up and do some bank transfers as soon as time allows.
I also laid down some groundwork for the production schedule that is going to run more or less through the end of the year -- a lot of interesting, challenging, and good-looking stuff between here and SH116 -- and mixed a scratch track for a video that probably won't drop much before the end of that. It's not optimal due to the source material, but it's frickin hilarious and should be a good starting point for an even funnier video, which will provide a nice point of contrast to its planned surroundings. (This is another multi-video "epoch project" like SH075-078.) I'll probably be mixing down to mp3 in a day or so if anyone wants the preview.
The machine's doing okay (despite some problems of miscellaneous origin), but I have a bunch of administrative stuff to take care of tomorrow and some fixes to put in tonight. As ever, no rest for the wicked.
--Kai out
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ich bin kein heimkind mehr
2005-05-21 15:06:49
Three good things happened today: the machine accepted the software and started working, SH100 debuted to good reactions, and I found v1 of Yakitate!! Japan at the grocery store. Only one bad thing happened (so far): I got tasked to the third shift, despite having been in this morning, so "today" is technically far from over. Oh well. At least tomorrow I'll have a legitimate excuse to drink beer at 8 AM on a Sunday.
Back to Yaki: Germany is kind of anime-poor, but is definitely manga-rich, which is a good deal, as was this volume: about twice the real content of the fan-translations for 5e. Damn cool. Having seen the anime through this volume and read the scanslations, it's actually like working with three languages at once, making it really interesting to see how the German and English work differently with the Japanese.
Es war nicht von mir bewartet, dass man Manga bei Kaufland kaufen konnte, oder wenn man irgendje Manga kaufen konnte, gar nichts, eine Manga ueber Brot. Aber bei Kaufland gibt es doch Brot, Brotbackmittel, Fettes Brot-CDs, und alles ueber Bernd das Brot, so es ist nicht unmoeglich, Manga ueber Brot dabei zu finden.
I still haven't really done anything on SH101; I've been listening to the track off and on, and working on another AMV-related project, but work is more or less all-consuming right about now, and will make it difficult to do anything productive until about June. We'll see how it goes down....gotta get some time off at least to pay bills.
--Kai out
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ich hab' ein geschenk fuer dich
2005-05-20 03:46:59
I'm starting to get into operational mode for SH101 but haven't actually started doing anything on it yet; I still need to clear SH100 off to the archive drive and it looks like today is going to be another late one.
I'm currently looking it as a challenge parallel to SH001; the idea in question is from one episode originally, and it'd be an interesting (not to mention more space-effective) idea to just cut up that one ep and do the video from the resulting pieces. I've got a 'comprehensive' Hundred Stories video lined up as SH102 and don't want to repeat myself, and also the piece in question (off the Akira soundtrack) is pretty layered and polyphonic, which should support a fair degree of looping and repeats in at least one video track.
The problem is that my current hardware isn't really able to handle mutliple video tracks at once. Of course, there's always the mute-and-check method, but it might be interesting to completely edit the video multiple times....as long as the random-stops thing doesn't fuck it up.
offtopic:
I picked up the new issue of Metal Hammer at the gas station this morning, but have not read it or popped in the CD yet (listening to _Engelskrieger_ again.....). This is probably the most lifesaving aspect of being in Europe: easy access to multiple metal magazines that customarily include free CD-samplers. The commute is long and CDs are expensive; no better patch than 4,80e for 20 tracks and a thick pile of reviews. Not too many video ideas therefrom (I may do a "Get The Clip" thing to decide the video source for "Falscher Heiland", but I may also make a decision myself sometime in the next four months), but with what I have on my plate currently that isn't much of a problem.
--Kai out
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