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shoot me once shoot me twice
2005-03-14 08:44:07
INSO6:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: complete
- Clipping: complete
- Edit: 2:06
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
SH095:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: scaffolded
- Clipping: 0/26
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
I'm not happy with the degree of progress on INSO6, but given that I had to basically write off Saturday for production after a major freak machine accident, it's not that bad. The video is flowing fairly well, and if I have enough scenes to cover (still likely despite the degree of multi-tracking that's going into this so far), it looks like it'll turn out pretty good. The last minute (done yesterday) comes off really well.
Though I thought going in that I would be able to edit faster, the reality is that close attention to editing is close attention to editing: try as I might, I can't get down below 1 hour per minute. Part of the problem may be source volume and the lack of instant-preview ability, but part of it is also modifying source on the timeline. There are no hard beats in this song, but there are a lot more -- and, accordingly, more prominent -- open instrumental moves that still need to be videographed. A disciplined attack tonight should get me through the end of the vocal section, and then I can do the coda and some post tomorrow. Of course, this is contingent as always on me not getting stuck at work all hours.
offtopic:
I got DT's new disc _Character_ over the weekend, and while it's good, solid metal with the right amounts of both adherence and variation, it doesn't have the same immediacy as _Damage Done_ and probably will not have the same radical impact. Contrary to what some critics have been saying, though, it's not _Damage Done part II: The Songs We Didn't Put On The Last One_.
In Flames definitely needs to start making decent records again: DT, to a small degree, (like Opeth on _Deliverance_) is resting on their best-in-class laurels and needs a competitive-pressure kick in the ass -- and we certainly can't rely on the likes of Soilwork or Gardenian to deliver it.
--Kai out
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i decide not you
2005-03-12 08:56:12
Obviously no video work; I was out at club last night and then had to come in to work this morning into a hurry-up-and-wait situation; I should probably put some time in out on the floor while I'm here, just on general principle, but then I'd have to assiduously avoid getting roped into staying all day.
Club was cool, with a good haul of stuff that is probably going to get duped rather than watched, as my schedule is probably going to get even more crowded. It never fails: as soon as it's decided that I'm splitting from some location, I meet some girl that makes me say damnit, let's stick around and see if this one works out. It was kind of a weird situation, but Liz and I hit it off pretty well, and if nothing comes of it, oh well, I'm off for Deutschland with no regrets.
(have to give her a call...today or tomorrow, maybe Monday....need to find out when the hell I'm coming in to work.....)
Club had MB last night, and I was getting kind of steamed about Tokyopop's tendencies to, you know, *not translate the Japanese*. And when they did translate it, on several occasions it didn't make proper sense. In the middle of this, I was struck by the observation: is it more fuckin'-otakuish that I get steamed about crappy translations, or that I get steamed about crappy translations *principally because I fucking MEMORIZED the Tomodachi fansub translation*? (recall that this is a 76-ep series ^^;;;;..........)
offtopic life lesson:
In every situation there is both good and bad. I was mad at myself because I only had the money to buy the first disc of Slam Dunk last night (due to pressing engagements with the third volumes of Worst and W Juliet), but then this morning discovered that Toei had munged some of their early discs, so I might be better served waiting for a recall and reissue of the second disc. But even still, it has a Japanese language track, the subtitles, while potentially crappy, are removable, and the source is DVD-quality, so I may not really want to turn it back after all. This comes up a net win.
Similarly, the first thing my brother did after I got in was get after me for going in to club rather than out to see Motorhead at the Palladium. Motorhead - cute girl. Motorhead -- *cute girl*. *MOTORHEAD* --- *CUTE GIRL*.
That one, not so easy to resolve without further results.
--Kai out
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and feeling no wrong
2005-03-11 12:13:30
INSO6:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: complete
- Clipping: complete
- Edit: 1:05
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
SH095:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: scaffolded
- Clipping: 0/26
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
Got through the first minute last night before losing motivation and deciding to just watch Fanboy Bebop again; I'm not happy with the MPEG2 output I'm getting from Magix on this title and may need to do some investigation on getting the AVI output to not interlace stuff. Regardless, it'll probably finish up over the weekend, but slower than expected due to other demands.
My brother's coming home today, and I'm going in to club tonight, which will handily smash up my video work schedule: 6-9 tape-equivalents to watch through, plus getting tapes to dupe stuff (ran out, anticipating that I'd be going overseas) and the inevitable mission north to buy random crap on Sunday. It fun to hang out, though, and I get to hassle him about making the same mistakes coming out of college that I did -- unless he's fixed them in the last two weeks. And that's without the possibility of coming in over the weekend to babysit the machine -- not real likely, considering where we've been test-wise, but I've been a first-line contact before.
I've done a couple articles on hardware for the new AMV wiki, and apparently most of my stuff has been passed in as correct. I've still got stuff to learn about style and formatting, but more pressing is the need for actual technical knowledge. The one major hardware area left is RAM, and I'm not close to qualified on that. Of course, a deep understanding is not necessary, but I want to be fair and give it the same depth of attention that I did for processors.
probably useless:
INSO6 has some "cutout" effects in it so far; future viewers should be cautioned that these were done solely by the native capabilities of the editing software and through no art of my own.
--Kai out
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no secrets left
2005-03-10 10:10:27
INSO6:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: complete
- Clipping: complete
- Edit: prepped
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
SH095:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: scaffolded
- Clipping: 0/26
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
Finished clipping last night, and I'm in excellent position to do a major portion of the editing tonight. The complete absence of hard beats will make things much easier in terms of time commitment; if I'm not zooming in and out on the timeline and looping to make sure I got the cuts in the right place, checking transparency and level, I can actually put time into editing rather than to stolidly turning a repetitive technical crank.
I always get burned when I try to look ahead at anticipated-completion schedules, but for now it's likely that editing and post on this one will finish Saturday (if I don't have to come in to work), if not Friday night in the case that I don't go in to club. By Monday (again, assuming no significant work commitments over the weekend), I should have INSO6 available for submission and preview, and a fair chunk of the clipping done for #95. With disciplined practice, even a 26-ep series will go quickly.
Of course, it's possible to go *too* quickly, blowing off rigorous source collection with the excuse that it's a 26-ep series, ofcourse there's going to be enough. The problem with that attitude is that of COURSE there's always going to be enough -- but without rigor it is not guaranteed to be the RIGHT enough.
--Kai out
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and simply let it be
2005-03-09 09:39:49
INSO6:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: timed
- Clipping: 2/5
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
SH095:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: scaffolded
- Clipping: 0/26
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
The resolution on K&K may be badly structured, but the transfer is incredible. Sharp picture with proper color balance is cool stuff, and could not be more different from the last two projects. With about an hour done of about 2 and a half, I've already got nearly 6 GB of source and major coverage of a large portion of the song. Compositionally, it's not 100% there, but I very very seldom have a strong idea of what I'm going to do with a video before I start laying cuts into the timeline.
The song also adds some flexibility; it's about five minutes long in the full version, but if necessary I could cut out the instrumental soul of the piece and finish in under four minutes. Really, though, the song's not the same without the instrumental coda, and it'll severely impair the pacing and feel of the video if it gets cut. The obvious solution is just to keep collecting good source, taking advantage of the trypically incredible German art-house cinematography, and obviate the volume problem.
Clipping should finish at least by tomorrow night, maybe tonight allowing edit time tomorrow, as the process is flowing quite smoothly. That's NGC for you: it takes forever for the movie to go anywhere, but it just flows and flows like an unending stream. I'm not sure whether the video will include this film's best example of this -- the most moving, beautiful, erotic emergency-tracheotomy-under-an-18-wheeler ever filmed -- as it's kind of offtopic, but it may sneak in somewhere.
No, I'm not kidding. If you think I'm kidding, you need to watch more movies from central Europe.
--Kai out
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