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Premeir is like democracy
2003-08-01 22:52:18
Like Premeir its the worst form of politcs while the better than everything else.
Or at least from what I am known of, see I live in a town where even if you go to the computer wizes of the city and say Adobe Premeir they will say "huh", everyone if not most of the people in this city look for computers just for the reuglar stuff its only me and Reggie that make AMVs.
I know everyone gets fustrated with Adobe on how it all of a sudden terminates when you work on a project and are so into it you forget to save. Its weird I honestly think my Adobe Premeir has a mind of its owna nd selectively picks the best times to shut my project down. When I started today I went 4 hours without a error or any kind. And I did everything I usually do fromt he resizing, transition putting, slowing/speeding, etc etc and no problems. However I go into it to do a little bit before the night is over and after 10 minutes BOOM it happens losing a few seconds of work (I wa sint he middle of practising my lip sync and I almost got it down path when it happen, thank god my desk is one tough old son of a bitch so it can stand me pounding my fist down on it). Try working on it again and I cant even go 5 minutes without something fucking up. Yeah I know I know it happens to everybody. Its jus tlike an article I read today in the paper. If you hate Fort McMurray drives don't look in the mirror. Meaning everyone says everyone else is a bad driver is no better than saying you are (while lets face it I honestly believe most of the people got their license from a box of cracker jacks). I know I am a bad driver but I have only been driving for less than a year. I have never cut anyone off intensionally like everyone seems to love to do. I have stuck by the speed limit at all times when no one else or mos tpeople don't. I try to be as generous as possible in traffic letting people in and out while there are many inconsiderate bastards. Hey I have made many mistakes while driving and I will admit them all but thats because I am a teenager and I bet i am a way better driver than half of the teens in this city who pay more attension to their stereos bass than the driving. Not only youth but it seems that its the old people who are the worst.
But thats jus tme in my constant bitching, sorry I have a tendancy to bitch when I am bored and things dont work out. The only things happy about my day is
Tim Owens is the singer of Iced Earth. While he is no Matt Barlow I can sleep easier knowing he is the voice of Iced Earth. honestly I feel sorry for TIm Owens he always seems to be the replacement guy that no one likes. He goes to Judas Priest and he gets nothing but disrespect from the fans, he goes to Iced Earth to replace Matt Barlow when Halford goes back to Judas Priest and gets some disrespect from Iced Earth fans. First and foremost Tim Owens is a incredible singer an dmy hats off too him for trying his best. I love power metal I think it kicks major ass and honestly I think he could do Iced Earth some good. For the past few albums Iced Earth has been slightly repetitive, not that that is a problem because lets face it my most favorite band in the world is AC/DC and they have been sounding the same for decades. The thing is I guess if TIm stays for more albums and tours, hopefully becoming a perminent singer I feel he can bring Iced Earth too a new level. Call that optimism but that is better than slamming the guy befor eyou hear what he can do. He may never be able to fit into the shoes of Matt Barlow or Rob Halford but none the less in my opinion neither of them could fit in his, all this musically speaking. I have heard excerpts from the new Iced Earth albumw ith him in it and honestly I am impressed I sense a new level Iced Earth is forming and it sounds damn good.
Of course that is only my opinion, no one ever listens to me.
I guess my taste in power metal IS VERY different than most of all of the power metal heads that i know. I must b eone of the only people who think Horror Show is the best Iced Earth album EVER (yes I heard all their other albums, well until The GLorious Burden comes out it is the best) and is the best album I ever heard.
I love Judas Priest music old and new. I enjoyed Jugulator and Demolition is the best Judas Priest album ever in my opinion so far while others just insult it . Yet again instead of listening to it and trying to enjoy it they spend too much time trying to compare and its there that people dont get that effect. Same goes for him and Barlow, isntead of comparing listen as a Iced Earth fan, a power metal fan. If you dont like it fine but give it a chance.
Thats all I guess, just restar tmy computer and go back to work on my revamping of A Boy Named Sue. I am 75% done. All I need to do is the lip sync parts. ALl Ia m really doing is replacing the old blurry audio with CD rip quality audio, the old blurry VHS style video with much clearer DVD footage. Most of it is the same while some changes. I am doing the lip sync now for practise for future AMVs wher eit is vital jus tlike it is in this one. WHen I am done hopefully I can put it up as a local download. I doubt it would do good since no one appreciates old fashion AMVs now unless there is special effects in it too the hilt with picture perfect quality. But I dont care, if I enjoy it first and foremost then thats the main thing. -
SWORDS canceled
2003-08-01 12:05:40
I am swamped the project, I just cant get the ideas flowing, quite disapointing so at this time right now I am just going to remake/revamp some of my old AMVs for awhile till I feel like doing the Bedtime Project which shouldn't be that hard since it is based only on one scene and the song is rather short, the shortest I have used in awhile. First AMV I will be revamping is "A Boy Named Sue" since I got the Samurai X DVDs I can revamp the picture quality of the AMV as well as sound quality since i got the Johnny Cash CD with the song on it however it is still sounding in live format but thats the best I could do. Why am I revamping it, i need practise in lip sync. Some of my future project will have vital lip sync parts and so I might as well get practise now through this AMV. It was well recieived a few years ago when not everyone had picture perfect video quality and special effects too the hilt. Now that demand is high on everyones expectations. A Boy named Sue is a simple AMV, where I take the story of Samurai X and screw around and make a story out of it through the song "A Boy Named Sue" but of course I know some people wont get it because lets face it who reads the description part of the AMV part before they download it? I do and maybe others do but it seems not many do. A Boy Named Sue wont really take that long, after i finish that one I will tyr and get right back to Cat Scratch Fever, then some others. After I finish remaking Sweating Bullets (the AMV that deserves to be remade the most!) I will go after the Bedtime project.
Thats it for now, sorry if I got some people's hopes up for the SWORDS, my hopes were up to but my hopes over ran the AMV that i felt I just couldn't make an AMV of that scale. I gues sit was the fear of screwing up and looking like a real idiot in the process. I much rather make an AMV with the confidence that I can do it and get it done. Hard to explain but its the morning here in Alberta Canada close to the afternoon. I got to work soon so till the next time. -
11%/Sounds Of War Saga
2003-07-31 01:33:03
11% done my next AMV, I worked on a bit today. I only got a few seconds done of it, the percentage is probably less than that since tomorrow I will change the beginning of the chorus I done because I dont think I am satisfied with it. I dont even think the AMV will truly come out well, sort of an true escape from my style yet music taste is back where it should belong, in the hard rock/heavy metal selection but I will always venture off once in awhile but I wills till stick to that root of heavymetal/hard rock.
But like before I am just going to take my time, do a bit at a time I am in no hurry to finish it I just want to get it done by end of September or so.
Watched the Daredevil and I really enjoyed it, as a kid I loved comics to death (but will always be a Wolverine freak, HE CAN BEAT SPIDERMAN) honestly my favorite comics were
1: X Men/Wolverine (movies good but you know there will be a Wolverine solo movie sooner or later)
2: Spawn (the movie sort of sucks but that was because it had to be restricted to PG-13, thats bullshit, I felt it had the right cast just the wrong approach)
3: The Punisher (the movie was ok)
I got into the Punisher first by accident sort of, my parents bought Punisher WARZONE #3 for me, they didn't care about the violence and it didn't turn me into Frank Castle in the end either. I loved comic I read it every day then I got The Punisher War Journals #26. Of course i lost them but I remember the issues like yesturday. Then I got into X Men after by getting into the Wolverine first when I got a Wolverine issue where he was in the Weapon X installation base, the place where they screwed with his mind. In the comic he was getting his mind screwed up while Cyber or Sabretooth I cant remember who was climbing around. Soon after I got into the Legion saga which lead to The Age Of Apocolpyse. After the cartoon I learn more about the past before the stuff I got into. I cant wait for X Men 4, but I am lookign further I amd ying to see them make The Age Of Apocolpyse movie (probably wont happen for years to come). They are making a new Punisher movie, I am totally stoked for it. Then a Fantastic Four movie (jumping like a kid), then a Ghost Rider movie as Nick Cage being Johnny Blaze (hopping like a kid). Oh well yes I am a comic geek but I dont care.
Becoming a wiz with the tanks in Battlefield 1942, I like playing that game it gets me in the mood I want to be in when I work on my AMV. I am thinking that this SWORDS project will be another part to the Sounds Of War Saga I have through my AMVs
Sounds Of War 1 - Aces High by Iron Maiden for Gundam Wing
Sounds Of War 2: Rush Of Adrenaline - The Trooper by Iron Maiden for Ohta of Patlabor (I will remake tha tone since now I got more Patlabor footage in DVD)
There just might be a Sounds Of War 3: Symphony Of Swords - I Am The Sword by Motorhead for various anime (mainly Beserk and Kenshin OVA/Samurai X)
There will be a part 4 and 5 I already have ideas for them but I dont want to make them till I am ready
SOW4 - Holy Wars by Megadeth - Evangelion
SOW5:War Ensamble - War Ensamble by Slayer - Various (possible used with real life war footage or movie war footage)
But they are years before made happen I am not ready nor willing to do them yet, but hopefully no one will steal my ideas, most likely have or after they read this they will.
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Ready to start
2003-07-28 19:40:30
I am ready to start my AMV but I dont think I will today, I guess I want to be in the right mood before I work on the AMV. I want to take my time and put considerable care to what I want to acomplish. My friend Reggie (Dragon Slayer Productions, guy who was with me at Animethon 10) was talking to Vlad while Iw as shopping around for a good deal. Reggie told me that Vlad recommended me and Reggie (I think I am not quite sure) a program to use. I forgot the name of it alreayd I left a message on Reggie's ICQ to get back to me on it. I guess I might as well experiment with new programs before I start. If I dont find the recommended video editor to be to my liking I will go back to the old betsy Adobe I guess. I have finally got the hang of doing a good amount of stuff on Adobe but I guess it is the hardcore digital effects that many experts are using now with Adobe After Effects, etc etc is way beyond my reach right now, well at least for now. I just watched Vlad's new AMV using Roy Orbison music. I didn't mind the AMV but I guess you can say I am not used to those digital effects that he uses in it, same goes for others. I guess I am too old fashioned I dont think its right to do something like that but hey it was a good AMV none the less and I should shut my trap because I am not even close to make as good AMVs as him. Oh well more experience is what I need and I hope that the next AMV will be another step up for me. I will be changing jobs soon and if it is sucessful I may donate more to the golden dounut than I used to I just wish that their censorship rules were not so with hardcore violence and nudity, oh well I guess. WWE RAW is almost on, I must get a mp3 of that new Motorhead song I heard last week "Evilution" on RAW, theme for HHH's new stable (wrestling slang for gang), but they will probably have it on the next WWE CD I bet. Other than that things have been boring for me, not much work, all I have been doing is ripping and decoding DVDs for my next AMV. Trying to take step by step what ErMaC and Absolute Destiny says at least to my interpretationa s well as trying new things. DVD2AVi doesn't work anymore so I use DVDx and it seems to work for me. I use DVDdecryptor and that one works like a charm most of the time (not for Record Of Lodoss War unfortunately). I took my audio from my "Bastards" by Motorhead CD, the song I will be using "I Am The Sword" I used VideoWave to do it. Turns it into a RAW WAV file I believe. I usually dont use RAW from CD wavs for my AMVs, whyb ecaus emos tof th emusic i use I dont own myself unles sits AC/DC,Megadeth or the sort. Garbage I didn't have the CD for, same with We Didn't Start The Fire but I guess that is why History In ANime doesn't sound too way. So this time around I am trying to cover up as much of my tracks as possible. Using all DVD footage, straight from CD audio, and trying to find the best editing software to do it with. I turned parts of the VOBs into AVI using the huvyui codec and once I did and gathe rup the clips and put them under DV format (I beleive ErMaC said in his guide that DV is good because it keeps the frames) so it would save me alot of space while not dropping frames. Hopefully I am doing things right, someone tell me when I am doing something terribly wrong. So far the only things that maybe a problem is my editing expertise. I plan on my SWORDS project being very fast pased and more split second frames while the AMVs going on maybe to give feel. I am just talking about what I se ein my mind. What may come out will be a different pictur,e hopefully not but that most of the time seems that way. I want to be in the perfect mood to do this SWORDS project but one way or the other I want to start at the start of August and work on it for a month bit by bit, I want to be done by October so I can start to remake some of my old AMVs before its too late to start making the final plans for my next wave of new AMVs to compete at ANimethon 11 and Anime Evolution possibly. Hopefully with my new job if I am excepted I will have enough money to ge tmore anime,music, save more for me moving to Calgary, as well as donate to golden dounut more often.
Other that I can work on the AMV right now if I want to. But i am not like before.
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Some up to date stuff
2003-07-28 01:05:33
For the whole day just like yesterday and probably jus tlike tomorrow I have been doing practically nothing but getting clips for my next AMV. I rented a few new anime todya I didn't see Adam there but I think he started work at 6. He complaining he works too much, I wish I could trade jobs with him. So he can work little hours and bust ass for 8 dolalrs while he can make 8.50 and do practically nothing. Call that jealousy, go ahead at this point i doubt I would make a 100 hours this month while I bet most people make more than a hundred each month. One way or the other I got to tell my bosses and stop waiting for the right moment.
Well dispite that shit while getting clips and waiting to save them I watched Hellsing ep 1-6 first the first time. It is my show and I claimed it part of the Corey shows ever since ANimethon 9, yet i never seen any of the show beyond ep 4. Well I did now and I really enjoyed it, I guess in the end i wasn't in the mood for it before but I was today and I was glad I did. I am surprised that the voice of ALucard is the same voice for the guy who plays Zelgadis, hmp go figure.
I also watched more of Beserk, I rented the Beserk shows 1-3 on friday and sent them back today and got the new stuff to rent. I have to say the Beserk dubs are pretty damn good, of course what I like most of the anime fans hate, and what i hate they love, same goes for my music tastes it seems. One thing I like is that unlike all the other anime distributors who give little or no special additions to their 40 dollar or more anime these Beserk DVDs have something special in every DVD that I WISH others would do I mean it isn't so hard for them to do it. They are outakes, you know when the vioce actor/actress is voicing out a scene and they screw up and etc, I mean that stuff. This DVD shows that in the special features as well a sjoke splayed on the dubs as well saying stuff not meant for to be said just to get a laugh. And i must say they are hilarious. espacially for the fifth CD, I busted a gut from beginning to end. The voice for Caska is the most funniest one, the one for Grifith does make mistakes but he likes to sing alot after he fouls up or doe sit on purpose for funny sake, the guy who is the voice of Guts (I used to call him Gats but oh well) gives one hell of a Butthead and Arnold impresonations and has his fair share of funny screw ups. Not to meantion the voices for background people and non main characters. But as said before these out takes are fantastic I wish other anime distributers do so.
I watched a bit of Amon Saga but it sucks royally I am only putting it in my AMV because it has some good "gibbing" scenes, for those who dont know what gibbing means it "Triad (me, Rj and Adam)" slang for cutting apart body parts of chopping up people,things, animals or horses (namely usually jus tme killing them) in which may seem impossible ways. The AMV will be full of them, I watch the AMV and it is the first itme every that I am thinking of two ways to approach the AMV. Two ways
Seizure Way - I was planing of the ultimate texturizing of the AMV. This was the original idea I was planing on, a Symphony of Swords and killing with so. Mixing guitar riffs (guitar meaning lead,rythum and bass together when in unison) with sword play of any kind I see fit, texturize it with drum beats with sword play. Alltogether texturizing it with sword play or actions tha tmove well with the lyrics/words that the singer is singing. Putting all of this together sound slike a good idea but the more I think about it the more I have my doubts, one is too much imagery for one person to interpret at once at many times over, another is it may not look very good when its finish. Good point is its never been done and there is a good chance it will look good, in the end it willa ccomplish being the most violent AMV EVER.
Murger Way - This one is merging the best ideas of all of the parts i have for it as well as new ideas. This one seems the best way to go but in the end it may be the worst way. One is it may not break the record for most violent fast pased AMV ever (which is held in my opinion by Jesmaster for the most heaviest, fastest, violent AMV eve rin Rapid Fluid) but in any other case my song is slightly faster in rythum but not in heaviest and rum beats, etc etc. However with this way it will be clearer for the audience to see the actions and intrepret their opinion on it. This one will take much longer though, since I am going to have to use ALOT of fade ins and outs, they are seeming to be the only effects I use anyway. Thank god a fellow AMV creator told me of a method to preview special effects without trusting Adobe's preview window for transitions. If it wer enot for that technique I learned "the World Was Never Enough" would not be as good as it became). I will have to put it too the test with this one.
Either way it may just be a Samurai X/Beserk AMV, why because both of them have th emost useful gibbs and actions equences that better fit my image of what the AMV will be like and what it will need. Record Of lodoss War would have been good for the beginnings and endings of stanza "I.... I am The Sword" or the parts wher eit start to slow down just to get fast again when change the scene to move witht he speed again. However i can use Record Of Lodoss War on DVD since the only thing I can use to decode it cant decode it. So if worst comes to worst and I need a scene from ROLW I will just get it off my VHS, and have to handle being crucified by the critics. Honestly when it comes to bigging and killing I feel I have WAY MORE than enough and will have to pick our the best ones. However as for actions other than that I feel I may not have enough.
But like I said Amon Saga has no stances I want other than the part when the main guit slices the monster in half. the Kenshin shows show Kenshin pretty much just using the double edged sowrd, using the side that doesn't cut which means it wont give blood and doesn't show the realistic effects of a sword. However i can probably use it for very very fast shots to make it look like he slashed him hard jus tnot showing blood yet. However the Kenshin movie I think has some gore, in fact more gore and slices than the episodes that Rj lent me.
I have pretty much finished the second wave except for Amon Saga and this new anime i seen at Roger's, its supposed to be a samurai show, so hopefully it will have some good fighting scenes in it for me to use. If not then my capturing is done less than a week before I wanted to be done.
Speaking of RJ I have decided to keep the DVDs he lent me till I am done the AMV, WHY? Because you never know when I may need to look back into the anime for more scenes, just in case. Also after I am finished I will probably make three AMVs of the same song. One int he mErger style, one in the Seizure style, and another which I am contimplating as the second merger (not to sure yet, maybe of things where in the first merger I wa ssecond guessing either this scene or another, first would hav emy final, second merger would have the other). I would put all of them on tape as well as some other AMVs I dont think he seen which I beleive he may like from others and from me. Mail it too him with his anime and wish that he either e-mail me back or mail me back with wha the thinks of the AMV and what he thinks should be changed. I will tell him to be INSANELY harsh on it. Lets face it, when it comes to symbols in anime, I am the Vampire Hunter, he is the samurai guy, so if there is anyone who knows the sword play more its him I guess. Also its his second opinions I trust usually th emos,t however sometimes he tends to be very lazy and just says its good not to make me feel bad or because he wasn't in the mood. Either way I know what he will say either way.
"Corey, its good, but........not as good as Aces High (Which is called Sounds of War, well I call it Sounds Of War)."
Just to piss me off as well as being honest. But to be honestly i will probably ask to send the AMV to other people to. But I guess it will be to people on AOL messanger since sending files through ICQ and YM doesn't seem to ever work. I would like to send it to Cindy I know she will cut its head off 9meaning critize it to the hilt), send it to Adam and he will always say its my best yet, send it too Reggie and while i usually have. Reggie gives at times good hints of what is better, however mos tof what he thinks should be different play not part to what I am trying to protray. He is a tougn and cheek style, which means go by how the lyrics say it, nothing else, he is not 3rd or 4th dimensional with his AMVs like I always do I always tyr to put in hiddne message through the scenes I am putting in, sort of situation foreshadow, try to show ther eis more to that scene that just what it sees and the lrycis say it. But look further to what the lyrics say and mean and interpret it through the scene like a painting. However no one ever does that with AMVs they watch it for a reaction. But with my SWORDS project there will be enough reaction, since it is a reaction AMV in most ways.
Either way I am starting to regains ome confidence that i can do it, it is just what way. SInce i didn't play Battlefield yesturday because i was bored out of my wits and Battlefield is getting boring I am playing now anyway. I jsut nee dto do Amon Saga and the new anime tomorrow, I should get it done tomorrow.
Bottom line the AMV will mostly be of Samurai X and Beserk unless I find other anime in DVD format that has scenes I want.
JOURNAL: MetalWolf (Corey )
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