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the root of all evil is the heart of a black soul
2005-01-26 09:33:08
SH094:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: complete
- Clipping: 4/12
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
INSO5:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: none
- Clipping: 0/4
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
It's fucking snowing again, so the chance of me doing more video work tonight is going down precipitously. The early estimate was 8 inches, but it's looking an awful lot like I'm going to have to move another foot once I get home from work. Of course, things are clicking better and I was able to chop through an hour of footage in 1:10 last night, so I'll probably be able to get the first VOB of the second movie cut up.
I should either be starting earlier or going later; I left about 90 to 120 minutes of production time out on the table last night, and that would have been enough to wipe out a major chunk of the second movie had I just been motivated. I'm still on pace to finish the video over the weekend (bye week so I'd better take advantage of it; I'm not going to be doing shit next weekend with the Super Bowl and all), but that's going to require kicking it up a notch tonight and tomorrow -- Friday is still reserved.
I should also be putting more time into finishing this Awakening supplement that's been in the works for the better part of three months; the only problem is that it requires me to do a lot of research and a lot of technical crunching, so I can't really work on it portably. I do have a lunch hour at work, but huge stacks of gun magazines are, I'm fairly sure, considered inimical to a proper office climate. I should be reading Knuth at lunch and working code examples; yet another thing I need to catch up on, but one that when done at home gets in the way of other hobbies.
Only problem is that I might have to bill it as professional development....not so much of an issue since I'm working ridiculous hours on salary anyways...
--Kai out
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in towers of stone | he walks alone
2005-01-25 09:06:20
SH094:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: complete
- Clipping: 2/12
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
INSO5:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: none
- Clipping: 0/4
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
Slowly, slowly, I'm getting more done. It's likely that I'll get another one or two VOBs cut through tonight, depending on how motivated I am to watch The Boy Who Saw The Wind and how long it takes to dig out the fire hydrant, which the city has not yet found the time or equipment to excavate. With 5 GB already in the source folder, I'm feeling better about my ability to keep it all in the same place, as well as my ability to actually make the video. I've got coverage now, but of course, I don't have all the scenes I need, and the idea of "coverage" in a situation that more than ever before is demanding several video tracks is kind of nebulous.
Time is also improving; I managed to go through 33 minutes of footage in 40 minutes, which is pretty impressive, though almost entirely attributable to the reduced footage yield (nonetheless high-quality and useful, but what the hell). Provided I get a good starting time, doing the last hour tonight is by no means out of reach. After that....well, there's two more movies. No rest for the wicked.
offtopic:
I'm feeling fucking old lately. No less than three people I'd known in high school or college got married over the last weekend, I'm personally now closer to 25 than 24, I'm neck-deep in researching/setting up 401(k)/IRA plans, and I'm right at the point in the Touch anime that makes you meditate on your own mortality if you know what's coming. I have a real 9-to-5 job (well, 7:30-to-6, but that's implanters for you), make a real income, and pay real taxes. I don't have to wear a goddamn tie, but again, that's more just the industry. I am a grown-up person, and I don't have a single fucking clue how I got here or where to go.
Sometimes life just happens; I guess I stick around and try to move on, because at least they're paying me all right. And sponsoring me over to Germany for a year, which some people somehow still think is a hardship posting. Whatever; better beer, more better metalfests, and a living allowance paid in Euros sounds pretty good to me.
--Kai out
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take my glasses off
2005-01-24 11:03:05
SH094:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: complete
- Clipping: 1/12
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
INSO5:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: none
- Clipping: 0/4
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
The lack of progress on #94 comes from several sources, mostly having to do with football and some with the weather -- my little corner of the northlands got about 30 inches of snow over the weekend, and the necessity of having the drive clear before sitting down to seven hours of conference championships kind of made clearing it an all-day operation. On the plus side, I've got about three gig of source cut, which may or may not force me to flip the production direction for the coming video; six to seven times as much, additional, may be coming in before everything's collected. On the other hand, I could try just working from the first movie and dump the other source unless necessary.
The song for INSO5 will require some editing, but it's nothing I can't do in place from the video editor. I haven't decided how much I'm going to clean up the video source; it's a TV print of a low-budget '70s movie, and it really looks it. It might help the concept in some regards, and it might just make the picture look crappy in other areas. It's probably going to end up as a case-by-case decision, with precleaning rather than trying to just smooth everything out in post.
The pressing issue for the next week is paying a bunch of bills (loans, rents, etc), making headway on the video, and getting the time to go out and buy some more tapes, as my piles for "pro" and "home" use have both now been completely depleted. With two months to go before Germany, it's also entirely possible that I'll run out the stacks I'm going to be buying this go-round, despite the fact that I'm running out of stuff that MITAC needs and they're running out of stuff I want. One last push, and I can box all this stuff up and go overseas....
--Kai out
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i got my own philosophy
2005-01-20 11:29:03
SH094:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: complete
- Clipping: 0/12
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
INSO5:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: waiting on CD
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: none
- Clipping: 0/4
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
I didn't do any clipping last night, but will tonight, unencumbered of other people's plans and priorities. I did, however, do some work on editing a song for the "God Hates Us All" concept, which is still about 40-60% up in the air as regards source.
"Disciple" was the choice going in, but after listening through the song again, I realized that I had to make some changes. It wasn't fast or brutal enough, and it was too damn long. Raise your hands if you ever though someone would say that about a Slayer song. So I cut out about a minute and a half (from a 3:37 runtime), then did some transpose-processing to bump up the speed a notch. Result: 1:44 of absolute extreme full-bore thrashblast. Hoi-Hoi-san better be carrying a full load of ammo.
Of course, this video will mean degrading myself at club or asking people still at UM to steal for me. Sometimes, there's just a price to be paid.
The other, unexpected, result of the editing was the discovery that Slayer (as might actually have been expected for a band coming out of LA) sounds like Motley Crue when transposed up two steps. It remains to be seen whether the Crue sounds like Slayer when tuned down to D.
--Kai out
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feel the pressure fall
2005-01-19 09:44:52
SH094:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: timed
- Clipping: 0/12
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
INSO5:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: waiting on CD
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: none
- Clipping: 0/4
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
I laid the groundwork for storyboarding on #94 last night (to be accomplished tonight, and maybe some clipping), and discovered that I didn't own the CD that the song for INSO5 (aimed at the "Live in '05" deal) is on. I thought it was a Judas Priest song, and being good, would be on their best of; turns out it wasn't, and I have to go buy Halford's _Resurrection_ disc, which I should have done like four years ago anyways.
It also turned out that I didn't really need to edit down the song for #94, just get dialed in on it, which I had not been previously. If I can stay dialed in, no problem; if not, then it's time to chop it....and readjust the storyboard file. The thing is that there's very little superfluous fat in the song; I might be able to cut out thirty seconds or so of guitar solo, but I hate doing that, and this video affords a fairly rare opportunity to use a really meaty guitar solo as a prime mover.
As for the next SH project, it's kind of up in the air, though I may roll out my old "God Hates Us All" idea with some incongruous sources or do another comedy vid based on the work of some Russian DJs. That one's going to depend on club results. There is the feeling that I need to do more metal videos, especailly before I go to Germany, with one "resurrected" project (something I thought I had killed two years ago) especially coming to the fore. We'll see; the great problem with having drive space is the compulsion to look ahead and rip stuff for projects that are a month or more over the horizon.
--Kai out
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