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QC for MSAMAMV:
2008-04-26 07:47:43
"Felt kinda cheated watching this even despite your mildy amusing self-critique."
Apparently this is one of the individuals who, despite my warnings about not downloading that AMV if you do not want to watch something that's not a real AMV, watched it anyways and was disappointed. It's ok...I felt like a lazy, cheating bum making it a lot of the time, which is why I don't run around promoting it as a worthwhile viewing experience...not sure if that's what this person is referring to, of course. A little more explanation of "cheated" would be nice...I mean, maybe it's something I could have done something about. :|
heh, if I said "felt kinda cheated" to every AMV out there which just screamed laziness, I'd probably stop downloading them. Wait...I kinda sorta already did.
AMV Topic 2: Old project files are completely kaput, rewriting the code made no difference, as it normally doesn't. This means I need to cling to and frantically backup all the uncompressed AMV stuff I have, because everything else is gone forever. :( -
TGIF
2008-04-25 10:07:04
The PC switch-over is nearly complete. Last night I transferred my big second hard drive to an external case – can’t use it internally thanks to IDE outdatedness, so now it’s going to have to just serve as a backup drive. This stinks, because it used to be abused heavily for video editing…but perhaps with my new computer I don’t need to worry about spreading the workload over several drives. I’d BETTER not. I haven’t dared try opening up one of my old project files yet. I’m pretty much resigned to the fact that everything I’ve made up until now is gone forever, but who knows, maybe for the first time in five years I will successfully be able to rebuild a project file…:|
My life just got a little more interesting in that, for the first time since…er…high school…I have time completely to myself on the weekend. It’s just one day, but that’s one day that I don’t have to report to a second job or concentrate for 10 hours on school work. I’m already like...wooo!!! it’s the WEEKEND!! COOL!! I really haven’t said TGIF for over a decade. Flip side is, of course, that my second source of income is effectively being cut right in half…but the job had tripled in terms of the amount of work I was expected to do, so in fact I’m just scaling back my activities to a level slightly above that which was originally expected. It was a hard choice, but I really, really do have things that I need to be doing which I just have not been able to get done. Plus, I don’t know…maybe I’d like to go see a movie once in awhile, go hiking, spend some quality time with my dog, do some gardening…you know, enjoy the perks of working my butt off six (previously seven) days a week?
AMV topic of the week: What movies contain nice clock imagery? Clock faces, clock hands, clock internals…A Clockwork Orange? I don’t remember, I haven’t seen that film for ages…Princess Tutu has some stuff, but I’m not sure if it will wind up being too hokey. Wasn’t there a movie with some kind of creepy clock shop or something…the camera moved through the shop going past all the ticking clocks…does Petite Cossette have clock imagery? Again, my memory fails me (bad bad bad thyroid, bad!!) I think I’ve got that series around here somewhere, though, so I can check. Tekkonkinkreet had a clock…but I think the style is too obscure. -
QC mystery solved
2008-04-24 12:21:46
It WAS my sister!! :o
Apparently she was trying to disguise her identity...which explains why what she wrote only seemed like something she would write if she was trying to disguise her identity. Oy...on the one hand I'm pleased I figured it out, on the other I was really looking forward to tracking down some very old acquaintances and interrogating them about their AMV-watching habits. -
*paces*
2008-04-22 20:33:01
I'm in a bit of a bind right now. AMV-wise. My modus operandi, thus far, has been to only make AMVs that I can get away with making...in other words, make things that highlight my strong points without obviously getting in way over my head. Not exactly like shooting too low...but I know my limits and carefully avoid going beyond them and getting burned. Not just with video editing, with anything. I know what I can't do and I deliberately try to pick an approach that will make the best of what I CAN do.
Problem is, now I'm considering stuff that I really could fall flat on my face with. It's quite frustrating: the kind of AMVs/editors I admire I don't think I could ever could reach the level of, so I have to keep shooting for a lower level. The reason this bugs the heck out of me is that it's completely the opposite of how I've conducted myself in other areas. Generally, I labor under the delusion that I can be as good as the "pros" if I set my mind to something - work hard enough and long enough -and I'm not going to get there if I don't shoot for it 100% of the time. AMVing has, in a bizarre way, disabused me of that notion, nevertheless...
*note to self* Do not make an AMV that will illustrate how bad an editor you really are. You have to keep trying to fool people. This means you have to keep making cheesy AMVs. :(
But I don't LIKE cheesy AMVs. I like awesome AMVs that are NOT cheesy. It galls me to no end that I can't make the kind of AMV that makes me go "whoa....". Then again, if I could make an AMV like that, I would not be saying "whoa" because 95% of the "whoa" comes from the knowledge that I can't make an AMV like that. -_-
My hypothyroidism, I think, is entering its annual getting-out-of-control stage. I'm physically exhausted most of the time, the coherency of my thoughts are - um - not good, suspicious muscle pain is plaguing me of late, skin is dry [insert further bodily symptoms]. Hypothyroidism is BAD. If I meet one more person who says "Oh, aren't you lucky, you can take meds for keeping your weight down" I will stomp on their foot. If I didn't take these meds, I'd be overweight by a good 20 lbs!!I'd be barely able to walk up a flight of stairs!! I'd be kind of...unstable!! These meds are NOT keeping my weight down - it's keeping it NORMAL. I work out five days a week for a reason, people!! Try it, you'll probably be in better shape too! And me "stable" is not so different from me "unstable" so :P.
This, no doubt in some people's minds, explains why I seem rather...odd. Whatever. I prefer not to blame my behavior on bad health. I'll take responsibility for my own actions as much as possible, thank you very much. -
QC for 'Bustin:
2008-04-22 08:01:23
"I'm rather partial to this one for a variety of reasons...that and I think I know the editor."
:| I can think of a few people who would possibly leave that kind of message, and fully half of them I'm like "Crap, they found me!!" (not that it's that hard to do, I've been trying to make sure people can find me, hence my ever-present nick).
That had better not be my sister leaving that QC, that's just not exciting.
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