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2008-01-28 10:11:37
What the HELL someone nominated SEPHIRATION ANXIETY AS BEST FIRST VIDEO???
How the heck did I miss that?? WAAHHHHH??????? I'm confused. OMG I NEED TO FIX THE ASPECT RATIO!!!
If they'll let me. OMG...*freaks out*
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This wound up being more involved than I intended. Drift's journal: Chicken Soup for the AMVer's Soul...not.
2008-01-28 10:09:26
I had an awkward discussion last night with someone who’s a fervent believer in alternative … ways of thinking about one’s personal demons. I consider myself a fairly open-minded person in a close-minded sort of way – tell me I’m close-minded and I’ll take offense - however, discussing things like religion, politics, philosophy, etc. with people who – for whatever reason - are desperate to cling to their own point of view is uncomfortable for me, since one of my main tenets in life is to accept that my own tenets in life may be completely wrong and that I must embrace new and better things as I see fit – even this very tenet may become passé and that’s ok. Anyways, this person was trying to convince me in a low-key way that we are all struggling against our own inner pathologies (aka inner devil) which are trying to control us and we must resist to find true happiness and peace. Now, I understand what this person was trying to say – that we’ve all got issues and they are a source of many of our “problems” – however what I actually HEARD was someone blaming something else completely apart and separate from themselves for their problems. They are pathologically disorganized, for example, because it’s a subversive and destructive … thing…that’s out to “get” them and they must struggle constantly to hold it at bay. The devil made them do it, in other words, and it’s not their fault they’re disorganized.
@_@ What struck me about the conversation was the difference between what this person was saying and the impression I got about what they actually BELIEVED. It is, apparently, easier for them to conceptualize “pathologies” as evil forces out to “get” them than a part of themselves they have to accept and take responsibility for. Hey, if it works for them, fine, I just don’t like it when other people try to force their views onto ME. Live and let live, folks.
Mmm, yes, so anyways, yesterday ended on a colossal down note and I forgot give myself props for a couple things:
1. The AE effect – this was a big, daunting thing hanging over my head for months now and succeeding gave me quite a boost in confidence. 2/3 of it came out great - CHA-CHING instant crowd pleaser - but 1/3 of it needs some work.
2. Obtaining non-Advent Children footage and managing to process it, script it and work with it on the fly without accidents. I was literally like “oooooo!! It WORKED!” Apparently I have learned something from all my past failures.
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This is going to be long and not very sweet
2008-01-27 21:31:49
'Bustin
Pre-edit: 45
Editing: 122
Finally succumbed to the necessity of using AE. Results: gave a somewhat impressive boost to a scene that otherwise lacked a very obvious element of funny sauce. This would be adding images to Cloud's cell phone whilst it artistically drowns. In with the amusement, out with the angst. CHECK.
Or that was the plan, anyways. Some time between bringing my AE work into Premiere and getting the clips arranged properly, something happened to the timeline. Something shoved ALL my other clip instances around by teensy tiny little margins. I don't know how, or why, or even when or where, but it did. Threw everything off by fractions of a frame. I didn't discover true horror of this until I exported the AMV (took an hour) and prepared to watch my 99% complete project with a great deal of satisfaction. YEAH RIGHT.
Now I've got to resurrect my most reliable auto save and see if I can get my AE work into Premiere without it destroying the synch of my entire AMV. -_-
oh yes, and I screwed up my track matte even more. Took me about two hours to do it, but I did. Ah, and this project is becoming extremely unstable - Premiere crashed on me about six times today with various degrees of severity.
My fingernails are completely gone. I've basically got two weeks left to finish this. -
Two weekends left to screw up my AMV
2008-01-25 10:21:56
'Bustin
Pre-edit: 45
Editing: 111
Ending – check (FINALLY…though I’ll probably succumb to its possible potential – which continues to linger just out of reach - and continue messing around with it) Also may adjust the end of the end, which was a semi-copout designed to appease my pet project of getting WCWSWKIA in there no matter what. I can do better, it’ll just really depend on the pacing what I can or cannot do. Current ending works fairly well, pacing-wise. I also don’t want it to get so fancy that the rest of the AMV pales in comparison.
Track matte – uncheck. Screwed it up some more this morning. I am seriously considering scrapping it altogether and probably would have by now if I hadn’t at one point had it exactly how I wanted it – I can’t figure out how to get it back to that point, is all.
News feed – uncheck. The challenge here is that when the AMV is played – because of the aspect ratio – it’s not being viewed with the video right to the edges of the screen, there are black borders. Consequently, those borders interfere with the impact of this effect, which can be summed up by saying I’m applying black borders to something which already has black borders.
GB sign – mostly check. Almost forgot about this, but if I HAD forgotten it completely and it got into my AMV without being fixed, I would have been quite embarrassed. The sign still needs a little tweaking, but the worst part is over with.
It’s kind of depressing, looking at ‘Bustin, one gets the impression I’d only recently discovered the cross dissolve and think canned effects are da bomb. It could be worse, though, I could be making unoriginal use of 3D environments. If I see another AMV that does that I'm going to be seriously annoyed. All I get out of the experience is a sense of nausea, a desire to fast forward the "real" part of the AMV and a feeling of resentment that the editor's computer is so much better than mine. -
After a brief hiatus (all of four days...)
2008-01-24 10:13:23
'Bustin
Pre-edit: 45
Editing: 109
Screwed up the ending even more. Yay me. -_- It’s interesting how the very same qualities which give a certain clip the potential be perfect in a certain place also can doom it to failure anywhere else. And by anywhere else I mean one or two frames else.
There now are three, wait four, big outstanding issues that need to be resolved by Feb. 17: track matte, cell phone, news feed and ending. This is a big improvement over the 33 things that needed fixing, however I’ve been trying to fix the track matte for weeks, I attempted to fluff the phone and didn’t get very far, the news feed I have no idea how obstinate it’s going to be and the ending, well, see track matte. Somewhat amusing is that all of these items can make or break this AMV, since IMO 'Bustin is teetering on the edge of nice try/nice job.
I really wish I had two monitors, it’s very difficult to preview some of this stuff at 1/5 screen size. I do have another monitor…but it’s 252 miles away and cannot cohabitate on my desk with all my other junk.
Dabbled in my 'Bustin banner yesterday, the key is to make people realize what 'Bustin is - Advent Children + Ghostbusters - without giving away too much, but giving away enough so that it piques their interest. I want the unsuspecting forum-goer to experience something along the lines of:
*sees banner*
"Oh no, she didn't..."
*clicks on banner, reads info page*
"No way...she COULDN'T have!"
*downloads AMV*
"OMG SHE DID!!" XD
That, folks, is exactly the reaction I'm looking for.
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