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i've got to get away from here / this is not a place for me to stay...
2002-10-10 02:29:10
Current video status: Dead. Well, it's not _all_ dead. It's only _mostly_ dead.
But I don't have Miracle Max standing behind my shoulder, nor do I have a noble cause to resurrect this video.
I can't get past a still-frame of Shiro, just moments before launch. It's just too hard, and I still have about 15 seconds of music to work with when I really only have 3 seconds of footage. I _could_ do my cheesy frame-editing tricks to get rid of the flapping mouths, but after looking back at the other places where I applied it, I realize that, like everything else I try to do, it looks like crap.
So no more of my stupid editing "tricks". Hopefully.
Compositing tricks can't effectively fill this space, and I can't go back and edit out a section of the video some 2,000 frames prior to my current block. It just wouldn't work; that section, although, chronologically, it WOULD make more sense right before a rocket launch, has already been synched down to the frame/sample level, and you just don't mess with things like that.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: The Wings of Honneamise is -hard- to work with, for dumb people like me, anyway; I'm sure that some of the more 3l33t folk around here could whip out six WoH AMVs out without even scratching their head twice.
I hate this.
It's transformed from a pleasurable hobby to drudge work.
But, for some unexplainable reason, I need to get this thing done.
Argh. If I can manage to drag myself through the remaining 3,000 frames of this video, expect it to (1) be badly executed, and (2) have a scathing description. In other words, if you're one of the people who actually take a look at my work every now and then (and who the heck would ever do that?), don't download this one. It will be but a waste of a precious few dozen megabytes. -
whee
2002-10-02 01:20:30
End of Evangelion DVD and poster arrived today (thank you TRSI!). Now I get to fill my Evangelion AMV quota, which is precisely one.
The only problem is trying to find an original theme for such a used anime.
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On frame retouching
2002-09-27 03:22:51
We are given the following situation:
An AMV editor wishes to communicate a certain mood using clips from an anime. The editor believes that his intentions could be better expressed if he retouched key elements of the scenes he wished to use.
Is this wrong?
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Now, people usually pose these kinds of "hypothetical" situations because they've gotten themselves into just that situation.
I'm no different.
For my third video I've been editing individual frames like mad. Sometimes it's because I want to stop mouth movement, but most of the time, it's for continuity of my video's storyline: the spirit of which, unfortunately, is the polar opposite of the spirit of the Wings of Honneamise. To put it succinctly: the situation is one of a storyline centered around fancy and failure versus a storyline centered around progress.
Is it wrong to perform such substantial edits? I'm not talking about re-arranging scenes or overlaying effects. I'm talking about prodding at the very heart of an anime.
We'll leave the legal issues of doing such a thing aside, because it's quite clearly illegal to do something like this. I'm just interested in thoughts on this subject.
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It's a good thing nobody reads this thing. Otherwise, I'd have to actually follow up by reading responses. (Oh, the horror!)
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- ! 2002-09-14 23:50:28 Ah! My Goddess rules. That is all.
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2002-09-14 15:49:53
Latest news of frustration:
Assembled 5-second sequence frame-by-frame. Used short dissolve transitions every 5 frames to achieve ghosting effect.
Hit "Render". Renderfarm crashes, get large temporary files on disks.
Swear for 15 minutes.
Remove transitions. Render sequence. Looks dumb.
Argh.
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I don't think I made one complete sentence in all that. Just like how I have yet to make one full second of progress.
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