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You WOT~?
2003-02-15 17:21:04
Misty: I'd like--nay, I -demand- to see photos of guinea pigs playing in snow. :D
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I love the white stuff, baby/in the middle of an Oreo
2003-02-15 16:02:17
Getting home from work last night was fun. I had a great buildup: our entire set of newscasts was all about how we had a big storm rolling in, up to 11pm when the story had angles on how people were actually pulling off the highways and staying in motels.
Now, I live about 30 miles from where I work going from major interstates to large routes and highways. It normally takes me 35-40 minutes to get home at night. Friday took me an hour, crawling along at 45 miles per hour on snow-covered roads. The little Suzuki wagon held up as best it could, with its lightweight front wheel drive and four-banger engine. Never spun out or bogged down, but it did track a little squirrely through the ruts on tires that are due to be replaced in a couple months.
Today was spent digging the driveway out of over 4 inches of snow, with more forecast for today. I got my exercise out of the way! The PT cruiser, by the way, is enjoying a couple of days in the garage until some of the worst starts to melt. I'd feel a lot better about getting the user $5000 wagon in a fender bender than our year-old bought-new PT that's worth about 4 times that.
In other news, "Yuji's Defense" should be part of Anime Boston's AMV contest, and -might- make the cut for Sakura-Con, if its arrival date doesn't disqualify it.
I've ripped the Crusher Joe footage I need for my Disney DDR project track, and after that will either go whole-hog on the Columbus Crew highlight reel or an Excel Saga AMV for ACen, perhaps. -
Please Mr. Postman
2003-02-06 14:48:11
Today my entry for the SakuraCon contest gets into the mail, and I'm hoping a postmark before the deadline is good enough for inclusion.
Spent a good three hours trying to get it to play out to tape after I got home from work...
Tried doing it directly from Premiere using Print to Video, and while it started my camcorder via FireWire, I got no picture. Rather than muck about with it further, I instead exported the video to AVI and used Pinnacle Studio 7. Actually, I exported three times, because Studio 7 does NOT like HuffYUV. The second export was at full-size uncompressed, and cut off at the magic 4 gig limit. Third export was the charm, but at a sacrifice of half the resolution I wanted.
Took the audio from CD and loaded it into Studio 7's timeline (I'm not sure if I can make it take WAVs or MP3s, the bastard) and then played out successfully after adding in a pad of black at the start before the video proper.
It may have been a roundabout way, but at least with Studio 7 I can easily add titles (like, VERY easily) via TitleDeko. I 'm at work and have the final product dubbed from MiniDV to Betacam SP with the proper amount of black bed as called for in the rules. After I finish the 6pm show it'll go to VHS and then off to Seattle.
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Die Another Day
2003-01-24 14:57:46
Utilizing another method detailed in the guides, I've exported seperate video and audio files for "Yuji's Defense", and it appears to have worked. I'll have to check the video file to make sure it didn't get truncated, but I think a 640x480 HuffYUV AVI is going to make all the difference in terms of a good-quality master file.
In other news, I've finished watching the Evangelion TV series, and can't wait to grab End of Evangelion. It's changed my ideas around a bit in terms of how I want to approach the Eva AMV I want to do, but only who I want it to focus on--the underlying theme will be the same. -
Never Say Never Again
2003-01-22 14:21:12
Had to export "Yuji's Defense" in 320x240, uncompressed AVI because the 640x480 AVI maxed out at 4 gigs and cut off at 3:12. The smaller resolution bumps it down to 1.2 gigs. -_-;
I'll ruminate through the guides and see if there's a better archival format I can use for keeping a "master" copy.
It looks good, though. It did allow me to see two bits that needed to be tweaked after I used the low-res work file bait-and-switch method.
I'll play it out to DV next and see if I can keep a max resolution copy in that way.
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