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we hate everyone
2005-02-28 09:44:40
INSO5:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: complete
- Clipping: complete
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
INSO6:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: scaffolded
- Clipping: 0/5
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
SH094 is final-compressed and online for preview (not linked from the video entry yet, of course), and at least in transit to the AniBo contest accumulator. It's just gotta get there by tomorrow. Tonight, more recs (now done through Q), and probably a significant portion of the editing on INSO5. I've got the usual lack-of-appropriate-source anxiety on this one, but I'll be getting through that. The plotting is solid and intellectually, I do have coverage. Edit here should go fast, as I'm more aware of the relevant technical limitations, and I won't be doing too much frame-level manipulation.
I also moved in the source for INSO6, which despite being a US DVD was order 1. I don't know what's going on here, but it's a good thing I'm not doing this on autopilot. Could be the import factor, but a film initially made in Germany is going to have to be differently mastered for NTSC distribution anyways, so that's not a clear reason either. Curiouser and curiouser; it's telecided now and doesn't fucking matter.
offtopic:
One of the girls who lived in my dorm freshman year got married recently -- to the guitarist from GWAR. Now *that* is cool. Congrats to India and Mike/BalSac; further proof that not everyone who goes to a SLAC has to end up as a financial broker or something similarly lame. \m/.
--Kai out
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united force - raise your sword
2005-02-25 09:40:21
SH094:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: complete
- Clipping: complete
- Edit: complete
- Postproc: partial
- Export: partial
INSO5:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: scaffolded
- Clipping: 0/4
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
SH094 (at least the version for normal people) is complete and should be open for sneak-peek requests by Monday. The con version is still coming along, because I have to export to AniBo's requirements, rebalance the aspect ratio, and throw it out through TMPEG tonight. That'll take about another hour all told, which won't be a problem, as I'm going in during the middle of today to MITAC's office hours rather than to the showing directly. There's some training I'm going to be doing this afternoon/evening, but that'll probably cap around 3 or 4 hours, which still leaves a bunch of time won back.
Now that this is done, I'm looking at future projects. INSO5 is obviously on-deck, and depending on the load of vids to review and what I need to do to get #94 to the contest coordinators, I may be able to get into editing position on it this weekend, finishing up on Tuesday or Wednesday. Live-action videos allow less in the way of special effects, so there won't be any issues with the editor refusing to load source clips like there were with this last vid.
As close as I can nail it down, beat-flashing in Magix forces the editor to narrow its scope to individual frames (or so). This gives you a frame budget of about 4096 (~2:50) before the editor starts acting weird, probably due to the 4-GB limit on virtual address space under 32-bit systems. I knew I should've sprung for an A64. However, that doesn't solve another problem that I ran into last night: that Magix won't accept AVI files over the old 2-GB limit (probably for Win95/98 compatibility). I ran into this, of course, while attempting to end-around around the frame limit by prerendering stuff. It's in the fishbowl, Bert -- VDub and "save as segmented avi" to the rescue!
Anyways, after INSO5, I'll probably know when I'm going to be in Germany, and how much time I'll have for INSO6 (which I still want to do up) and possibly a remake of #5. I've been kicking that particular idea around since about a month after I made the damn thing, and now that I have the DVD of X and a frame-accurate editing suite, it's something to definitely look into. It'll probably be 90% remaster, but there are always bits that you'd want to clean up or other stuff to add. And then there's that "God Hates Us All" concept still....
offtopic:
For little evident reason, I got two ops within like 5 minutes yesterday. One was on SH093, but the other was on #46, which is going to turn 3 this August. Hen des' yo ne......
--Kai out
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and i'm on my way
2005-02-24 09:54:03
SH094:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: complete
- Clipping: complete
- Edit: 5:47
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
INSO5:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: scaffolded
- Clipping: 0/4
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
#94 is nearly, nearly, done; just have to remake the project file again (got stuck with the same kind of symptoms) and cover the last 13 seconds for the con version, most of which is tentatively plotted, then do the padded export version and the normal one, then go into post. I'm so close I can fucking taste it -- should be done by tomorrow morning.
This leaves the weekend for INSO5, if I'm not heading out to Germany Saturday (problems with the sim automation stuff...maybe going to be couriering a release midweek). If I do go, I'll still have time to get the source and some prod tools loaded, and then we proceed as normal. Regardless, #94 will be in proper format and in the mail to AniBo no later than Saturday morning. I don't think I've ever cut it this close on a con before.
Further video directions will be decided on the fly when it is determined how long and when I'll be in-country. Dependent on process speed there may be another SH vid before I ship out, but this is not enormously likely. I still have those recs to do, and M is about 40 videos that all need to be watched and rated yet.
--Kai out
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there's no time to prepare
2005-02-23 09:10:27
SH094:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: complete
- Clipping: complete
- Edit: 3:45
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
INSO5:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: scaffolded
- Clipping: 0/4
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
The basic trick worked, so I didn't try the advanced version. I also blasted through nearly a minute of the song and put myself in position to rip down the solo section and maybe a later chorus tonight. It's looking decent, and I'm getting good effect with fewer video tracks, so maybe I won't get stuck again. If so, I've got the corrective measures in place.
I also finished I and J, making it likely that I'll be able to get through the rest of the vids I downloaded over the weekend by the time I go to Germany. There's something wrong with the site's calculations for average scoring; by my own count I'm running at about 3.05, but they've got me at 2.99. Must be some statistical curving procedure or whatever.
If I don't load anything more for the time being, I'll be able to carry the source for INSO5 over to Germany without difficulty. The problem is going to be doing anything coherent with it there, because there's only so much diskspace on this laptop and burning CDs isn't an option. It's probably going to come down to a time/space tradeoff and a lot of time spent writing and archiving clips to perfect-quality xvid. A *lot* of time, as this machine is only marginally more capable than Keystone, nowhere near the AthXP-fueled goodness of Battlefreak.
Of course, this brings up the elephant in the room: do I keep editing for the year that I'm in Germany? It's pretty clear that if I do *not* keep editing for at least 10 VPY (as I did in my least productive 12-month stretch, 10/2003-10/2004), I'm not going to pick back up again. It's hard enough to get in editing mode *now*, with the pressures of a full-time job and after a long quiet period, that getting back to a high level after a year layoff would be more or less impossible. And in the end, I'm extremely impatient at editing and like doing it much less when it goes slowly. It'd be nice to finally justify using 3-digit numbering for SH vids, but it's not a be-all-end-all. Much of the equation is going to depend on availability of source materials and time, to say nothing of a competent system. This is an open question, and like a lot of stuff, it's wait and see.
--Kai out
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repression and the trailing strings
2005-02-21 16:32:06
I was recovering last night and did no video work, but that has to change. AniBo's deadline is 1 March. I have four working days to complete, post-produce, package, and mail the video in oder to make the cut before I go to Germany. I'll probably throw in an hour or two tonight and review some more of I (I did about five videos out of 20+ this morning) afterwards; multiple hat crunch time on both work and home fronts. Here at the office I'm supposed to be fixing documents, getting equipment running, and making arrangements for hotel accomodations in another country; good thing these all take outside input and other people's schedules give me the latency to parallelize.
The upcoming overseas assignment means I will probably be out of contact for the better part of two weeks. In that time I'm going to be working, sleeping and writing, definitely, and possibly also clipping for the first of my "live in '05" videos -- possibly the only one dependent on timing after I get back. It should be a good acid test of how much work the later extended deployment is going to be, and how much free time I'll have outside of weekends and holidays for hobby purposes. The flights and airport-bumming alone are pretty significant chunks of time, which will hopefully translate into a sort of grand scale of sitting around waiting for the train on Friday nights, which is where I do most of my decent writing and get nearly all of my ideas started.
Forking the recs forum, advocating removal of opinion scores....I don't do anything *but* stir shit on the forums, do I? Verjagerter kakdroogmaker.....
--Kai out
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