This weekend I...

[lierdumoa]

Did about half of my clipping for my Rodney vid. The rest of this post is me complaining about vidding tech in what looks like English, but really totally isn't at all.

So basically, I managed to acquire high definition broadcast rips of the episodes. The real deal, 3-5 GB per episode mpeg-2. Some of them are 1920x1088, 29.97 frames/sec., others are 1280x720, 59.94 frames/sec, interlaced. I also have some 960x540 progressive avi's that I haven't acquired yet, but will be using for the vid once I have them.

So I got about half an hour's worth of clips into avisynth scripts and wrote hideously long strings of code to get them 1) progressive, 2) 23.976 frames/sec, 3) 960x540 and shoved them into Premiere Pro 1.5. The files were too slow working with without rendering first. They were huge to begin with, and add to that what the script is doing to them and I can barely play the avisynth scripts, let alone edit with them.

So I dragged them onto the timeline and started rendering. Half hour's worth of clips -- 25 hrs worth of rendering on 1.5 GB RAM. I am *this* close to breaking Premiere.

*this close*

My plan is to do the actual editing with the render files via avisynth scripts and then substitute the high quality files back in for my final export. Supposedly there's some way I can do the export outside of premiere if I have some fancy plugin, just by sticking my project file into VirtualDub. I'll look into that when it becomes an issue. Hopefully that way I can have my nice, shiny, super duper high quality vid without my computer giving me the blue screen of death or Premiere crashing without warning.

I'm hoping to start some actual work on the vid tomorrow. In the meanby -- sleeeeeeeeeep.

And since permetaform asked for the code:

1280x720 59.940 fps = mpeg2source("D:\Downtown\1x03 Hide and Seek\1x03 001.d2v").Telecide(order=1,guide=1).Decimate(cycle=5,mode=2).Decimate(cycle=2,mode=2).ConvertToRGB32().LanczosResize(960,540)

1920x1088 29.97 fps = mpeg2source("D:\Downtown\2x10 The Lost Boys\2x10 002.d2v").Telecide(order=1,guide=1).Decimate(cycle=5,mode=2).ConvertToRGB32().LanczosResize(960,540)

Comments

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

A propos of nothing in this post -- got my mail? & :-)

[astolat]

OMG where are these HD rips? *begs for more info*

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

There are torrents available for the 960x540 avi's. I've seen them on at least two invite only torrent sites. I can invite you to BitMeTV(dot)org. Look for ones with *HR.HDTV.AC3 in the file name.

morgandawn mentioned she'd seen some of the 3-5 GB episodes in torrent form, I don't know where though. You can ask her for more information about that.

I get all my 3-5 GB episodes off the newsgroups, which is a different thing. Paid service, more anonymous than bit torrent, much faster downloads than bit torrent since it's not peer-to-peer (omg so shiny!). As I understand it, it's basically an e-mail service -- the files are converted into a bajillion e-mails with the code in plain text, then you have a software program on your computer that downloads the e-mails and links the file pieces back together. For more info on that you're better off asking fashes. She's my roommate, so I don't need to know this stuff, I just mooch off her mad bootlegging skillz. Maybe if you ask her it will nudge her into writing her newsgroups guide for greedy vidders. ;-)

Also, I'll be able to burn copies of my eps by the time VividCon rolls around, if you want to wait that long.