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  • Member: Yogurtron
  • Title: Masters and Slave
  • Premiered: 2002-04-06
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  • Song:
    • Cherry Poppin' Daddies Master and Slave
  • Anime:
  • Comments: Ah, this was my wonderful 7th music video. This one was my FAVORITE one to create (sarcasm intended). This was my first attempt at doing a true AMV using.... oh yeah, actual anime (as opposed to the lunar cutscenes what were drawn anime style, in my last AMV, heh). That wasn't the hard part. The hard part, was that this was my first AMV to use DVD footage.... and that was a pain in the arse, at least with this video.

    One thing I want to say, that part in the middle of the video, where you see clips of shinji, asuka, and eva units 01 and 02 a lot, right in the middle with the instrumental... that was orriginally supposed to be my attempt at making it look like the two were fighting (by showing scenes of one attacking the camera, and the other eva or person reacting to something else that would make it look like the other one did something to it)... that's what it was supposed to be... but after all of hte problems I had with making this video..... I lost patience to do a very good job on that part. It's well timed and everything else (in my opinion)... but my attempt at making them fight failed miserably. If you read on, you'll see why I lost patience with doing anything TOO special with this video, primarily that seen. Nonetheless, that's my only real comment on the video... if you want to read the following few paragraphs, they are the story of my finicky computer and video editting. I think it's rather funny to read, especially if you're an editor, and I know a lot of you are, heh. Anyway, onward!

    This was before the AMV app was created, i was trying to get AVIsynth to work... it worked without a problem. Later, I had to reformat my computer, because I got a new Hard drive (for all that VOB space, hee hee). So I reformat, reinstall windows, reinstall AVIsynth... it doesn't work. The D2V files hadn't changed, nor had the locations of the files, or the AVS files i made.. but it didn't work.... I still don't know why it didn't work, but after re-making the d2v files.. it finally did... for some reason the first didn't work, i tried using a later version of DVD2AVI to make the D2Vs.. and that didn't work.. then i used the DVD2AVI version that i had to created the first D2V files with.. and it worked (i think i tried the first DVD2AVI sometime before i tried the later version, to remake these things.. and it still didn't work.. hence why i tried the later version). SO something that didn't work... later did... I don't know... Maybe it was after the VFAPI plugin was installed for something else.. I dunno... but it worked again... and there was much rejoicing. *yay....*

    Okay so I edit the video, and make most of it in 29.97 fps.... i realise i should've done it in 24fps... so after much contemplating... i tell Premiere to retime it to 24fps. Now I knew I'd have to go through and retime the stuff... and I did. I stayed up all night retiming the thing, and I was happy when I was finished... and then went to sleep. Now another problem with Gainax's DVDs... is that whenever there is a scene change (this isn't on all of them.. but about 95% of their scene changes), there is this white film goop on the top of the screen. You don't see that on TV usually.. but on a video montior, that shows all of the video data... it stands out like a monkey in a roomful of... um... bannanas or something... Anyway, so i took screenshots of those frames, brought those over to photoshop, and blurred out the film goop, and then put the screenshot back in for 1 or 2 frames (depending on what the source showed me). Okay... so the video editting is complete, it was retimed to 24fps, and and the editied frames are put back in, to get rid of the goop. All is right in the world. I then tell premiere, to render the mofo, so i can see the "glory" that is this video. I go to office depot or something.... I think I needed CD-Rs or something..... and I come back to my comp. The premiere screen is back to standard editting mode, which means that the video has finished encoding. I load up the video and watch.....

    I then promptly kicked the computer repeatedly. .... okay.. maybe i didn't kick it repeatedly.... I don't remember anymore.. but I was pissed. And why was I pissed? Because..... something.. I don't know what.. had moved my retimed stuff... I don't know how it happened, but everything was off by a frame or so. Each clip was moved back about 4 frames... and on the same video track, the video managed to overlap other things on that track.... this left black frames everywhere, early screen changes, or none at all (depending on my computer's mood.. I guess), and those Goop-Out frames were placed long after the scenes I put them on to cover. I have no idea why it did this. I started retiming the video, and took about a week break or so, from video editting, because of frustration. I eventually went back to retime my retimed footage.... all is well in the world once more.... everything, was as it should be. I gave the computer the pre-rendering reboot, then I went to premiere to render the project. I then watch the completed project....

    If I lived on the second story of a house, you would've probably seen my computer fly out the window after that. For at the begining of my video... I saw 3 fades, a wipe, and some other transition... right after the other. I look back at my premier project, and find that my 4 or 5 transitions I used were starting on the 1st, 2nd, and so on frames, respectively (overlapping themselves there too). Luckily, most of my fades were handled with the opacity rubber-band, but some I couldn't, because of how the film was placed, or something of the sort. Now... since this project had been going on for the past... month or two.. I couldn't remember where all of these transitions were, which pissed me off quite a bit. Nonetheless, after a little while, i put them back where I thought they should be. I did my pre-render reboot (to clear my RAM, and make the computer run better overall), and rendered. I watched the "finished project"

    I then ran for the garage to get the sledge-hammer, and BAM!... well, I wanted to do that, anyway. For lo-and-behold, I saw the exact same video that I got on the last render.... the transitions didn't keep their time-code, or whatever it was that kept it from staying where it should be in the timeline. I retime a few of them.. and because I was suspicious, saved it, and closed the program. I open it up, all of the ones I moved were back at the begining of hte file, again... they were unable to keep their time code... for no apparant reason... that pissed me off a lot. So I fix any thing else in the video I thought and/or had the patience to fix. I then save, do the pre-render reboot, and then move the transitions back to where the should be and.. render. I then watch the video.

    I went insane with joy... the video.. after about 2 months of dealing with my computer's temper tantrums... had finally... FINALLY allowed me to create my video! I then work on compression. That had a few problems, but those were just because I didn't really understand IVTC at the time, until I finished the compression (I make my videos in premiere, export as unstripped AVI (you know, the 5 gig video for about 4 minutes), then compress that with TMPEGenc). Nonetheless.... the video was finally done.... and there was much rejoicing.... well, not a lot, but I rejoiced anyway.

    Nonetheless... that's one reason I didn't edit the insrumental scene like I wanted too.. because I was having far more trouble just getting the clips working in the first place, much less doing something really.. well... difficult than to make it look like two eva's were fighting, that really weren't. Anyway, all in all, comparing it to my other videos, I say it's my second.. maybe third best. But just when I think of the video outright, it makes me cringe, too see all the stuff I wanted to do that I just didn't, and to remember the horrible ordeal of rendering..... scary thoughts... evil thoughts. But anyway, that's just because I'm overcritical of my work, and I know what parts were left less than what I had wanted them to be "in my vision." So yeah. Anyway, if you did read this, congratulations, and I hope you had a good laugh. Besides that, if you haven't watched the video, watch it, and leave opinions, tell me what ya think. And just remember... next time you make a music video, make sure that your box of magic is securely connected to your computer when you edit... otherwise, what I told you above will happen. (I heard about the box-o-magic thing somewhere in the forums.... I'd give credit to the one who said it, but I can't remember ^^; anyway, I'll put that in if/when I find that out).

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