vid

Now unaccountably late. But then, I think I needed the extra day to figure shit out. I now know exactly what I'm doing for everything.

Things already done -- fiddled with pacing. I think it is now up to your standards gwyn_r. Or as close as I can get it, in any case.

Replaced the anvil at the beginning with something less literal. Thanks boniblithe! It actually gave me an opportunity to clips I thought I wasn't going to get the chance to use.

Figured out everything that wasn't working narrative-wise, figuring out what to replace the clips with, and deleting the original, non-working clips.

Things I still have to do -- do the actual replacing. I also want to try a few different possibilities for the ending.

I figure I'll try to get this up Monday morning. That'll give me a little more time to stare at it and maybe have permetaform look at it once more.

OMG

OMGWTFBBQ

IT IS LIKE MY BIRTHDAY ALL OVER AGAIN!



So permetaform hears tell of some program called avi-synth. Basic principle -- instead of making clips, you write a text file with a few lines of simple programming script saying, in effect "so and so video file, frames 800 through 1040". You give the text file an avi-synth file extension, and with the avi-synth codec, Premiere will open the text file and think it is in fact reading a clip made up of the frames you described.

You can do this with any video file, including DVD's. Basically, if you don't have to make clips, that means you aren't losing any image quality from your original source. If you're source is a DVD, that means you're vidding directly from your DVD source.

So permetaform doesn't have space on her computer for this stuff at the moment. We decided today to get together on my computer and figure all this trash out. It's pretty techno-complicated.



I'm downloading the software. I suddenly see that I'm being asked to install the huffyuv codec.

Wait.

That's lossless compression. Doesn't lossless compression, like, cost money? So we go back to the guy who wrote this big intimidating avi-synth help guide on animemusicvideos.org -- absolut3destiny. If you think you're vids are high quality, go look at his. You will cry bitter tears of gaul. So anyway, permetaform asks him -- did...did...did I just download a lossless codec for free?

No, he replies. You actually downloaded two lossless codecs.

o_0



I can resize without quality loss. o_0

I can deinterlace better than VirtualDub. o_0

I have lossless compression. o_0

FOR FREE.



I've spent the last few hours grinning so hard my face hurts. I only wish I had known about this before I started my vid. This means eventually I'm going to have to remaster the entire thing. Boooooo. On the other hand, now I know I can make it better quality than it is, and I know how. Yaaaaaaay!!!!!



Help website is here. Not for the faint of heart. You're not hardcore unless you live hardcore. I'm quoting School of Rock. I need to lay off the crack.