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2011-04-10 19:00:00
You know you're a hardworking anime fan when you use an Excel spreadsheet to chart your progress with each season's series. Just an observation.
Also: The AMV Gods have been conversing with the regular MV Gods. Up until now the latter hadn't been making any trouble for me, but it looks like they were tipped off. Eight hours down the drain today fighting with (and getting nowhere with) Adobe Encore, then various other DVD authoring programs right on down the line to simple, happy-go-lucky DGIndex, which VDM was being nasty with (in a non-sexual way) for no good reason. I guess I need to keep track of this video again, since I'm clearly NOT done:
Memorial Video
Pre-Edit: 14 hours
Edit: 43 hours
Post-Edit: 16 hours
Part of this isprobablymy fault. I made all of my images about 3-4 times as large as they should be since I wasn't going to have perpetual access to the source footage and it was almost guaranteed I'd need to zoom in on something I hadn't anticipated. Consequently, it's taking Premiere about an hour to export a four-minute video with nothing fancier than a cross-dissolve on still images and *checks Encoder* three hours for a 20-minute video of which more than half consists of a single still image. -_- This is *calculates* oh...the 10th time I've had to export it all in the past month, due to glitches of all kinds ranging from my pickiness to that of my programs'. -
Catchin' up with technology
2011-04-03 19:20:20
Don't Tell Me What I Can't Do
Pre-Edit: 10
Edit: 10
Bought myself a flat screen TV last weekend as previously mused. Tonight I hooked it up to my PC for the first time (cord is a tripping hazard, but I think I can handle it). As usual, my life improvements wound up involving AMVs, in that I can now watch them on a 37" screen. Yes, yes - this isn't a huge screen - but when you've only viewed AMVs at cons or on your computer monitor, it's a whole new world. A fun world, too. I got a little reminder of that great feeling it was to finish a video and have it turn out sort of like you intended. HA!
Which brings me to this YCDTTAC (yikkety-tac) nonsense which is my unnamed, but personally highly-anticipated fifth AMV. I went to the Photoshop World conference in Orlando this past week and got some new ideas fordisembowelingworking with Advent Children. I tried a few things today and there's definitely potential here, I just don't know whether it's worth the effort. Good news is that I have a much better grasp of working with 3D scenes in AE, now. Bad news is ..wait, I'm not supposed to do it this way.
The Good: I have a better grasp of working with 3D scenes in AE, now. This is potentially vital to YCDTTAC (or whatever it is), but I am loathe to go down this road. The only reason I'm considering it is because, at the end of the day, animating Advent Children by hand - frame by frame - could theoretically be less frustrating and more successful than working with the real footage.
That is just SAD.
The Bad: Unfortunately, and there always is an unfortunately, I still don't know if it's worth it. I can't afford to waste my time with this stuff, either.
The Ugly: I think my employer is going to be sending me to a Las Vegas trade show in the fall. What does this have to do with videos? I don't know...maybe something about AWA?
The Good #2: I got a bit motivated watching AMVs on my new, big TV (relatively speaking, my old analog TV had a 24" screen). This is AWESOME because if there's anything I need, it's motivation. *DELETES REALLY BAD JOKE* Even I have my limits. :| -
Onwards
2011-03-25 19:19:38
This weekend's plans:
1. Wrassle Adobe Encore. That program just confuses me, which doesn't usually happen anymore with Adobe products.
2. Work on whatever the hell that AMV is I'm supposed to be working on. Obviously I still haven't thought up a title...bad bad bad. Current plan is to skip ahead to the stuff I really do have planned out and can actually accomplish, since there are 20 seconds or so of mind-blowing horror I've been stuck on for awhile. The real issue with that is that I don't want to spend 100+ hours on those 20 seconds, only to discover that it wasn't a good move and I could do something far simpler with better results. :| For the intro of this video, I really want to figure out where my Vincent Playarts figure went and record me dropping a cement block on him or something. Or perhaps just a large shovelful of dirt. Better yet, me kicking him.
3. Get bugged again today by "He's Gonna Step on You Again." If I could just figure out something to do with that song that wouldn't take forever, I'd do something about it. Meanwhile it bugs me.
4. Buy a new mattress. I need a new one quite badly, even though my current mattress is less than a year old. Problem is, I don't want to to give it away for free since it's almost brand-new, but I don't have anyplace to store it. Anyone need a $700 9-month-old Posturepedic® Ultra-Plush firm (don't ask) mattress for $300? Not free shipping included!
5. Laundry.
6. Paste .125" x .5" stickers into 203 corporate brand booklets I authored, because the powers that be decided after they were printed that my original 10 pt. font size for e-mails was - it turns out - the right choice, not the 12 pt. it was changed to at the last minute despite my misgivings. SIGH It is very hard to peel the backing off a sticker that small!
7. Pack for hot weather. I'm attending the Photoshop World conference in Orlando next week (which will be awesome), and I sincerely hope I have the opportunity to implement whatever I learn at work...otherwise it just winds up in my AMVs.
8. Start playing Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, which I got for Christmas and haven't opened yet. I find AC OK, but a pale, boring and corrupted shadow of my beloved Thief franchise.
9. Buy a flatscreen TV? Comcast finally pulled the whole plug on my free cable and I've held onto my analog TV as long as humanely possible. Next step is figuring out whether a TV tuner in my PC is the best option for someone who doesn't watch hardly any TV.
10. There was something else....wash the dog! She jumped into the river behind my apartment this evening and has been very muddy to boot of late. -
There's something wrong with me
2011-03-22 20:34:16
But we already knew THAT.
Got myself to a chiropractor today, who cracked my back and neck and whacked me around a bit. End result was I felt like a million bucks leaving when I felt like about $1.33 walking in. Pondering my hopeful path to better health, I just realized that if I can straighten out my back and neck problems, I will probably be able to hack sitting in front of a computer for even LONGER...like the time it would take to make an AMV!
Don't tell my chiropractor I realized this. - *drool* 2011-03-12 18:59:43 ME WANTS http://www.anthro.com/stands.aspx?computer-cart=creative&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=video-editing-desk&utm_campaign=creative
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