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Regarding effect craziness
2002-08-18 15:30:19
OmniStrata: Read your little blurb about multi-track video effects -- hehe. You've joined the insanely-dedicated-to-a-few-seconds-of-screen-time club.
Something I did in "Family Matters" went along those lines...six tracks, dozens of layer masks...all for about 3-4 seconds of footage. Fleh. -
To the future
2002-08-18 04:20:14
Completed Metropolis project; it's available for download, and it seems to have made hardly a ripple. Whee.
Starting a new one using Wings of Honneamise -- I plan to do things RIGHT this time, which includes not having to improvise quality cleanups. What's really cool is that Cinelerra can edit natively @ 23.976 FPS just fine, unlike Premiere, so I don't have to do any sort of crazy tweakage.
Plus, my sources are much, much smaller now -- 1.8 gigs per file instead of the 5+ they used to be. :)
As far as I know, neither the video concept nor the music I'm planning to use have been done before, at least not among the videos on AMV.org (which is a pretty healthy subset of all existing AMVs). Well, I know the music isn't in the database, but as for searching for similar concepts -- reading the video descriptions tells me that it's not been done before, but who knows.
No, I won't tell what it is, which kind of makes this journal entry rather useless and self-serving. Then again, if I DID reveal what it was, I'm sure somebody would do it far better and faster than I, and although I do think the primary goal of AMVs _IS_ self-satisfaction, there's always something to be said for the ego boost of being first.
If I could tell you to ask Shirotsugh Lhadatt, I would. :) -
It is done
2002-08-15 12:17:30
Exporting latest project to an uncompressed RGB Quicktime master as I type this. 1.4 gigabytes, and it's not even done a minute of footage. I'm willing to bet that the final movie is going to be around 7-8 gigabytes when it hits the 3:24 mark...
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2002-08-12 06:26:32
Good God, is it just me, or is EVERYONE now making Metropolis videos? I gotta get mine out the door before people start calling me unoriginal...
...or something.
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rants and raves, what did you expect
2002-08-11 00:54:56
(accents on words omitted because I'm a lazy bastard)
Anime Jedi: Not sure if you're gonna read this, but yes, Cirque du Soleil does rock. I've seen Mystere and Alegria -- not Varekai, though. I need to. :)
I've been planning to somehow do an AMV to Alegria's theme. The music of Cirque du Soleil is never bad, but the lyrics usually don't mean anything. However, in the case of Alegria, they _do_ mean something, and I've got what I think is a decently good translation of them -- my Spanish is a bit rusty after a couple months of disuse.
Anyway...
Three hours to mask a 1.635 second sequence at 2:04 in this Metropolis project. Not sure how many points were present in each mask, but damn, it was tedious. The result is pretty good-looking, though. :) I just wish that I could actually GET somewhere (i.e. beyond 2:06) with this damned thing.
And ARRGH!
This is a small code snippet that uses the Boost::Threads C++ threading library to place that instance of a class in its own thread of execution:
Constructor::Constructor()
{
...
boost::thread mthrd(*this);
}
This works fine on Linux, but it deadlocks on FreeBSD. I haven't a clue why, or which OS is giving me the correct behavior. I suspect fBSD is, though...the FreeBSD guys aren't the type to leave broken libraries around. Still, what frustrating behavior -- this code is the only way that I can get some classes to execute in their own thread, and I'm not in the mood to re-do my entire design!
Threads. What a pain in the ass.
And yet, they can make so many things easier...well, conceptually, anyway.
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