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2008-01-13 20:37:39
'Bustin
Pre-edit: 39
Editing: 89
Unofficially finishing an AMV is a REALLY dangerous thing. On the one hand, I have soooo much unpleasant work left to do...on the other, I could just say the hell with it and wash my hands of the whole project. Yah, that's right, all of my enthusiasm has completely gone down the drain, not the least because:
1. I spent about four hours today on 5 seconds of footage. This is footage that, the first time I messed around with it, I got looking exactly the way it should. Then, of course, I messed around some more, ruined it...etc.
2. In an effort to make sure my pet project within this project is not left on the cutting room floor by myself or others, it's now stuck squarely at the end of my AMV, shortchanging my more creative, more impressive, more interesting funny sauce I was so pleased about spending four hours or so on yesterday.
3. It's not good when you can barely stand to watch your own AMV, but that's where I am right now.
I need a drink. -_- -
Phew
2008-01-12 21:51:15
'Bustin
Pre-edit: 37
Editing: 85
Bustin' is, unofficially, done. If I was some crazed individual who would spend over 100 hours on an AMV and then release it before it was officially done, it would be uploading this second (or not, can't do that from home). Fortunately/unfortunately, I have approximately 4 weeks and an untold number of hours to see how far I can go with what I've got.
Sooo..since I haven't done so in awhile...
The Good: IT'S DONE, YEAH! And my last hurrah funny sauce looks fantastic, if I do say so myself. My original plan didn't work out, but I've learned by now not to try and force things (though one could say this is exactly why I'm so slow at editing, I believe I CAN force things and 9 times out of 10, I'm not the one who surrenders first).
The Bad: I'm so enamored with the finale saucestaticness that I'm leaving it on screen far, far longer than anything else...so long that I'm getting the unpleasant feeling I need to do something about the brevity of all the rest of the sauce. This is a comedy video, I'm not relying exclusively on the concept/music to get me by, but it's an unfortunate fact that, if you do not have time to swallow the funny sauce, it's kind of a waste. Worse...well...no, that's about as bad as it gets: 95% of my funny sauce potentially being a complete waste, or even detrimental to my AMV.
The Ugly: Now that I'm unofficially done, I realized I not only didn't work in one fantastic idea I was given (thanks Amo-Chan) BUT I didn't do a THING with the very first, very awesome, very funny ... thing ... that started the ball rolling on this AMV. And I KNOW if I leave it out, someone is going to say "Why didn't you do X? That would have been perfect!" Well ok, there one place I can easily it in, but it means taking something else out that I really don't want to take out. And, again, sauce isn't getting enough screen time. It's not MY fault this song is so overpowering that I can't get creative with my synch. If I do that, it just does NOT synch - no ifs, ands or buts about it.
This AMV clocks in at 6.7 GB, uncompressed. This is interesting, to me, because my other AMV with AC, which was exactly half as long, was exactly 2 GB in size. 'Bustin, I noticed, started snowballing size-wise when I had about 3 minutes on the timeline. Huh. I highly doubt it's my sauce... -
Advent Children + Ghostbusters = GOOD STUFF (promise)
2008-01-11 10:16:55
'Bustin
Pre-edit: 35
Editing: 81
Funny sauce is simmering on the stove, now I'm trying to figure out what my priorities are. Obviously, #1, FINISH the sauce that closes out the AMV (I'm really dreading it, because it looks pretty good without sauce, BUT...this is a sauce fest, so there must be sauce). #2 fix the intro. #3 fix that wretched track matte scrolling text thingy that's got to look good or it just looks lame, #4 make sure I know how to export this AMV properly.
#5-#33 are just going to have to wait their turn.
And my computer's doing that really, really annoying thing again where it plays my AMV at inconsistent speeds. Sometimes I'm horrified at how fast it's going, other times I'm wondering "Is this song REALLY that slow?" I'll have to compress it and bring it in to work, I guess, to see what's really going on. -
Rural Vermont is nice and all, but...
2008-01-10 15:15:11
Today's rant is brought to you by the friendly municipality of Randolph Center, Vt., which has a serious problem paving its roads.
You hit a pothole that ruins your car's front end elignment, pops a tire or otherwise screws up your vehicle and it's generally accepted that you can complain to the town and have them foot the bill. After all, it was THEIR negligence which caused the damage.
I live on a 2-mile dirt road up which, during mud season, is probably in the worst thing one can drive a Toyota Corolla over and live to tell about it. Our recent 60-degree January thaw turned the road into a mid-April quagmire, I'm talking ruts over a foot deep, and put a whole ****load of mud IN my tires. Yes, mud can get IN your tires.
This becomes obvious when, the next morning, you attempt to drive to work on the highway and around 40 MPH your car starts shaking so bad you can barely hang onto the steering wheel. This is caused by the mud that sat and froze overnight in your tires, which also causes you to call the local mechanic and sheepishly explain that you have a mud problem and they need to flush out the offending sediment. This costs about $30, because they have to put the vehicle up on the lift, remove the wheels...the whole nine yards.
Now, if I have to do this every day becase, after all, I might want to spend the night at home, that's $150 a week for mud removal. That's almost half my weekly paycheck. All because the town won't get with the 21st century and PAVE. I am seriously considering mailing them a very nasty (but in a sweet way) letter outlining my situation and inquiring about whether they can reimburse me for mud removal since, after all, it's THEIR mud, not mine.
My poor car. :( -
It’s rather depressing, you’re kind of excited about your own AMV, then you go watch someone else’s awesomeness and there’s the audible sound of FIZZZZzzzlllleee…in the air.
2008-01-09 08:00:28
'Bustin
Pre-edit: 34
Editing: 80
Rented Ghostbusters again, just to make sure I'm not missing anything. Watched it TWICE last night while feverishly working on finessing my funny sauce - once with the regular track, once with the commentary. I always wondered what all that scaffolding was outside the NYP Library...now I know, it was there because the building was being cleaned - it was not a prop for the movie. @_@ What personally cracked me up was that when the theme song starts in the movie, all I could envision was scenes from my AMV. LOL I guess the song is ruined for me forever, now.
In an effort to make 'Bustin a little more technically ... acceptable ... I'm tossing out some of my old text-based funny sauce in favor of a more hardcore tabloid gimmick. This is the big special thing in this AMV, so it needs to be highlighted better. The tricky part is making it work ... alternative funny sauce was originally used to give flavor to scenes that otherwise are not inherently funny and have no place on a tabloid. A side benefit of removing the old sauce, despite the problems it causes, is that - now that I pretty much have the whole AMV done - I can see how uneven the sauce is spread and take steps to fix it by ripping out anything unnecessary - which happens to be 85% of the text sauce.
It's kind of amusing that I don't like cooking...what with all this talk of sauce recipes and whatnot. Yeah, I make a DAMNED FINE SAUCE...for AMVs. ^_^
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