Awkward situations as an editor...?

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:17 am

dj_ultima_the_great wrote:
SQ wrote:That really sucks about your parents, Oto. Luckily my parents supported me ever since I pulled the "I'm practicing for my career" card. XD
(My mom's a gamer too - yay! - so she's pretty "with it" when I'm playing something; she also watches some of the fluffy shoujo anime with me.)

- Jen

Well, actually, my mom is less the problem. She actually watches anime with me on occasion (mostly serious stuff, e.g. Monster, Gankutsuou), though she doesn't quite get the concept of an "anime music video". My dad on the other hand...

The real problem is that my parents don't entirely accept the concept of a hobby (that is not related to my employment). There's constantly clashes I get in regard to this and my other hobbies. They think I'm wasting a lot of time that I could apply to my career.

Actually, other awkward moments come from the fact that I'm not too seriously-interested in video editing, but people assume I'm well-versed with it if I tell them I'm into AMVs. One too many times I started talking to AMVers or non-AMVers well-versed in video and got myself embarassed by saying something completely stupid about encoding or filtering or something like that. It's a fact: an arts/humanities-oriented technoretard is an awkward AMVer indeed.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:19 am

SQ wrote:I meant how you were referring it to the 'hentai section' throughout the whole post. 0o;

ah well its not like they separate out the yaoi from the yuri and the "regular" stuff in the "hentai section" lmao, I'm amazed that they separate it from the non animated porn actually.

but yea lol no stress

SQ · Post by SQ » Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:20 am

Ah. Well at least you're a little bit up to speed on technology, Oto. I'm still on Premiere 6 and the SMart Ripper -> DVD2avi -> Avs script -> Import -> Export huffyuv -> VirtualDub -> screwup the 2-pass encode of XviD

route.

Of course, the fact that I haven't edited in over a year may have something to do with it. But that's besides the point. XD

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:23 am

SQ wrote:Ah. Well at least you're a little bit up to speed on technology, Oto. I'm still on Premiere 6 and the SMart Ripper -> DVD2avi -> Avs script -> Import -> Export huffyuv -> VirtualDub -> screwup the 2-pass encode of XviD

Um.

>__>

that was my route until my HD crashed and I had to get all the new stuff.

Actually, what has saved me from complete retardation is not my own catching-up but hanging around more literate and technically-inclined editors (especially Jasper-Isis, who is probably used enough to my technical-retardedness for me not to feel awkward about approaching her with it

)

SQ · Post by SQ » Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:30 am

I just got a new computer with 2gtb of ram. The only reason I stopped editing for so long was because my 256mb were starting to corrode, or I was using to many efforts or rendering power or something, because Premiere would lock up on me every 10 seconds.

I might try to update myself, but it might be pointless at this point since I have to get Final Cut Pro and Avid and learn completely different ways of things for school, now. They don't rip DVDs, there - they capture them. I can't imagine sitting there and capturing everything I needed in real-time, oh god XD

Anyway... Yeah, I don't know where I was going with that.

ngsilver · Post by **ngsilver** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:34 am

My father just shakes his had and reasures himself that I will one day, 10 years from now when I have a good job, wish I hadn't spent all this money on anime. My mother on the other hand will try to assure me that my father is right... well... when she isn't making a generic "ching chong cho" noise to describe the japanese....

At least my cousins are hooked on The Cat Returns, Porco Rosso, Spirited Away, and a few other titles I've shown them.

anneke · Post by **anneke** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 10:45 am

I've edited the Corn. Actually I'm the first person to edit the corn. Did it years ago before it was on DVD out here.

As for parents...well I live on my own. They know I go to yaoi con but have no clue what it is. I don't hid it, but I don't educate them either. Much more fun this way.

-Anneke

SQ · Post by SQ » Fri Sep 08, 2006 2:56 pm

I think my parents would disown me if I made mention of wanting to go to yaoicon.

I didn't even mention that I won the contest for it in 200.. 1? 2? I forget.
Fan favorite action or something.
still waiting for that tape I was promised....

SsoulBlade · Post by **SsoulBlade** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:45 am

Well my friends didnt exactly seen a video of mine off the net but I did show them an anime of which I was very proud of back then.

I did it in Windows Movie Maker 2. (I'm working in Vegas 5 now)
The timing was on beat. There was a storyline, complete with flashes, fades, etc. but without going overboard.

Did did not believe it was me until I showed them the project files.

I also tested Vegas with wath it offered me, slowing down clips with precision, bloom effects, etc. They were speechless. And so many times I told them to switch to Vegas or Premiere Pro...

Ag, just my 5 cents...
Peace SoulBlade

Radical_Yue · Post by **Radical_Yue** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:50 am

SsoulBlade wrote:Well my friends didnt exactly seen a video of mine off the net but I did show them an anime of which I was very proud of back then.

I did it in Windows Movie Maker 2. (I'm working in Vegas 5 now)
The timing was on beat. There was a storyline, complete with flashes, fades, etc. but without going overboard.

Did did not believe it was me until I showed them the project files.

I also tested Vegas with wath it offered me, slowing down clips with precision, bloom effects, etc. They were speechless. And so many times I told them to switch to Vegas or Premiere Pro...

Ag, just my 5 cents...
Peace SoulBlade

Why don't you have these AMVs on the org then?