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Old Yeller
2012-10-11 20:08:43
Around 2007 I took the plunge into the wonderful of DIY computing and had a desktop built for Battlefield 2 ( Thats all I really used it for until after AX a year later when I decided to start editing). This old dog has been going strong ever since more or less. Although it not really too old since I swapped out the motherboard, CPU and memory so its basically a somewhat of a new computer...This year however I wanted to build a brand new desktop and trick it the hell out. But you need this thing called money and after losing my job, i'm a little short. Hopefully that will change over the next few weeks...
Vid Progress: 98%
After getting some more feedback from the AWA Pro contest and from Beta tester(s), were doing yet another quality control pass. This will probably be the last one then i'll call it good. Maybe not good but enough that It could be released into the wild. It made finals at Another Anime Con, too bad I can't see the audience reaction which will probably be a mix of "The fuck did I just watch?" and "God, that is some shitty photoshop". Lulz.
Football in Los Angeles? Make it so, number 1!
Funny how I find myself
in love with you
If I could buy my reasoning
I'd pay to lose... -
Dog Days
2012-08-30 15:45:03
August (Especially late August) has to be the worst time of the year. Literally nothing is happening it seems. No good movies, no sports, shitty weather. (Although living in Southern California makes it impossible to have bad weather). Worst part is getting sick and laying around in a muggy house with a fever, yes please. Seems like after Labor Day everything picks up. The end of the world is upon us. Stupid Mayan ancestors, step yo' calendar making game up.
AMV progress whatever who cares: 98%
Its done, its not done well, but its finally done. We have to go back try to fix stuff and improve things here and there as always. I want to try and do something clever for the credits but I don't know if its possible or even worth it since we should probably spend EVEN MORE TIME trying to fix the video. I don't wanna do this anymore *Goes back to editing*
The NBA season is gonna be a joke this year, only three teams are gonna be worth a damn.
Welcome to Rock 'n' Roll Night
Welcome to Rock 'n' Roll Fight
I'm just a Rock 'n' Roll Man
We're just a Rock 'n' Roll Band... -
Decompression
2012-07-04 15:35:16
So the 4 Day party is over and another AX has come and gone. It was overall quite the enjoyable experience and was sorely needed to take my mind off of some things that are bothering me. Besides checking out all the AMV related stuff and the contest, the thing I enjoyed most is seeing fellow editors, be it meeting up with ones I've talked to before or becoming familiar with new ones is always nice. I cant really think of anything else at the moment, im still a bit exhausted so thank God the 4th is in the middle of the week.
Vid reconstruction Progress: 20%
And so we return to this thing after some time off. I will try to approach rebuilding this video on a scene by scene basis and try not to think about the video as a whole since doing so makes me go emo and want to stop editing. We'll try to do all the scenes first that I still have files for than move to the ones that pretty much require that we have to re copy the source DVDs and make clips for and mask and paint and...ugh...
Im trying to decide which phrase I like more "Heaven? or Hell?" or "My favorite AMV is Dragonball Z"...
Prom is coming up
It's on the 17th of May
And ive got a message
That i want to convey... -
Humpty Dumpty
2012-06-25 02:55:31
Rule Number 1: Save often and save multiple copies
Guess who fucked up and didn't follow directions? :)
I was finishing up some minor fixes on the AMV I was working on and After Effects decides to explode.(Which Im sure was my fault, because everything is always my fault) I didn't think much of it at first until I tried to re-open my project and finding out said project file is now corrupt and AE crashes every time I try to open it. Awesome.
Of course, I figure "Okay, I'll just have create another AE file and rebuild the video". Nah, we cant have it that easy. The hard drive that contains all my AMV materials is now on the verge of failure, making a ton of the individual files used to create scenes in the AMV no longer readable. Photoshop files, AVi's, VOB's etc all gone...
As Im going through trying to redo this video with what materials I have left, I constantly find myself groaning discovering yet another file that can no longer be used. My enthusiasm for the project was already waning and now I feel like I just don't even care anymore.
Whatever.
And I don't even care to shake these zipper blues
And we don't know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed to the earth below... -
That old, familiar feeling...
2012-05-16 18:50:41
So a little over a week ago, after several months and a incredibly impulsive and foolish decision, I finished my first AMV in over a year. As usual, the feeling is quite anti-climatic or at least...weird. I tend to throw myself into the production of these things fully. For days, weeks, months, my mind is focused solely on the creation of the vid, nothing else. So when I reach a point where I declare the vid "finished", Its odd going back to a state of mind where I'm not obsessing over something. Long story short, for me, the worse part about making an AMV is, well, actually finishing it.
Vid Progress:Post Production n stuff
So with that said, its time to try and make this thing suck less before we upload here to teh Org. For right now, its just fixing some errors that managed to slip through ( Its really hard to try and see mistakes at 4 in the morning after editing for about 20 hours straight). After that, some beta testing will be in order. I've never had any of my vids beta tested so that should an eye opener. Right now I think I'll just choose a few people whose opinions I respect. Don't know if I'll expand it beyond that. Hopefully, we can have a nice, not so shitty version ready to uploaded in early July.
Just one game at a time, please....
So I went from day to day
Tho' my life was in a rut
Till I thought of what I'd say
Which connection I should cut...
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