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Hrm, I need more cognac.
2012-09-30 18:52:26
So here it is fall again, and being a resident of New Hampshire who doesn't ski or overly avidly snowshoe, I'm looking at a long, cold winter with not a lot of outdoor recreational options other than weekend sledding and possibly some ice skating, should the weather cooperate.
Time to make AMVs, I guess. I was trying to get myself psyched up this weekend for it, but it all just kind of fell apart. I need inspiration, motivation, a better set of editing skills... someone HELP ME!!
We have a craft/art show coming up at work on Friday. I've been challenged to share my videos, but haven't decided if that's actually something that would be such a hot idea. It's bad enough in the AMV community hearing "You spent how long on that video? Are you crazy?" never mind from people who have no idea what's involved in my videos.
Stupid lip synching. Stupid Sephiroth wink. *waves fist* No one cares, AC is sooooo last decade! -
A pause
2012-09-12 20:58:18
I've been thinking, nay, deliberating, about the future of my AMVing. I cannot make videos unless I am supremely motivated and inspired, that is just a given. So, given this, I don't really have any videos in the works. Yeah, there's three or four that I'd like to make, but one I've tried and failed to make three times, another I'm tryING and failING to make, and the third I'm rather terrified of even attempting.
I think I will attempt it, though. The only thing that inspires me is a challenge. Worst that can happen is I quit, right? ^_^
Oh...I'd like to go to AWA this year, but I just don't have the time off. :| Next year I'm planning to really set aside time to hit other cons on the East Coast. Can't see me traveling to anything else unless I had a super-duper AMV in the competition, which is unlikely to happen.
Speaking of which, there's another AMV I've had in mind for a long time, which I began, but abandoned. It's Advent Children again, which I am thoroughly sick of, but if I could pull it off, it would be quite good. The other day I realized I could rationalize it as the third in a trilogy of AC AMVs, a.k.a. The Last One. Then I felt slightly ill, thinking about what would be required...a good six to nine months worth of eye-gouging rotoscoping, at the very least.
Oh well. I will continue to putter about and maybe make something again, and maybe not. It doesn't matter too much any which way, although if I no longer make AMVs as a hobby, that means I have to find another uber-time consuming creative hobby. :| -
*thud*
2012-09-08 18:13:10
In the Key of D
Edit: 25 hours
Post-Production/Special Effects: 0
Percent Completion: 0%
Today witnessed a return to DriftRoot Editing: Classic Edition, in which our heroine pursues every household chore and runs every errand in attempt to stave off the inevitable fact that yes, she should be editing. Classic Edition also means the AMV.org journal eats journal posts like a starving puppy in a Purina kibble factory, so there you go.
Picture this, if you will: I sit down in front of my computer. I open up Premiere, then my project file, and begin to reorient myself after more than two months of AMV neglect to the unfortunate status of my current AMV project. The timeline is streaked in yellow and red, the only evidence that my computer has recently undergone reformatting and has failed to cough up the project file previews it once possessed.
First I just spend a half hour or so making sure everything is as it should be, and then begin redoing the first five seconds of my AMV's for the fifthy-ninth time, even though it's technically "ok" and I should be working on the other three minutes, which I have no clue what to do with. This cross dissolve doesn't look right, it needs to be a bit longer. What is this clip doing here, why is it disabled? And why is there a black border around my video? Wait a second...I'm working in the wrong sequence, I should be in the one labeled "FAIL." These clips need to move over a frame, and I think this one would look better if I switched the blend mode to multiply. Hey, what is this keyframe doing here?
/me closes Premiere.
No...must edit...
/me opens Premiere
And HEY, why does this sequence have the wrong AR!
/me closes Premiere and goes candy shopping
That's it. I'm done.
*shakes first at Journal* This was waaaayy better the way I wrote it the first time! -
Drat!
2012-09-06 19:56:07
For the first time in 10 years, after at least four attempts, I've managed to reformat my PC while also keeping my Premiere project files intact. Opened up my latest project this morning and, despite a little fussing about missing temp files, Premiere loaded all the footage, all the clips and in general regurgitated 24 hours worth of editing.
Drat, I say, because there goes one excuse for further delay on this AMV. -_- -
The black screen of death.
2012-08-28 18:52:42
This was not the easiest reformat I've ever done, I don't even have all my programs reinstalled yet, but at least my PC is still alive. Unfortunately, I came home today and it was stuck on the same unresponsive, black screen it was becoming stuck on BEFORE the reformat. Time for some more serious diagnostic work, I guess. *sigh*
In AMV news....Reformatting is always kind of like when I go on vacation - I always forget something, until it's too late. This time I remembered - right before reformatting - that there were three prototype AMVs I haven't touched in more than a year that I really should save. Did I save them? No. Heh, there's three videos which are never going to get made.
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