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[lierdumoa]

On Hold by silk_knickers
Fandom: The OC
Rating: NC-17 overall
Pairing: Ryan/Seth
Why you should read it: Ryan angst at it's best. And for this one, you don't even really need to know the fandom at all.
Parts: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 *complete*



Last night I read elynross's post on The Evolved Vidder. OMG, it's so *true.* vidding really does turn you into a mutant, able to discern nanosecond flashes of stray clips or pixellations and hear when a cut is imperceptibly off beat. We see more than can be seen with the naked eye. We are freaks of nature.

Also? We're obsessive. Obsessive as fuck. A typical day in the life: Hmmm...this source is too dull in color. Maybe if I mess with the brightness/contrast. Right. I'll render it, and then adjust the brightness/contrast. No, because some clips would end up overadjusted if I did them all together. I know! I will go clip by clip! No, I can't possibly adjust the brightness/contrast on every single clip. Well, technically, I can. *three hours later...*

Then there's my personal horror story. In Premiere, you're looking at 30 frames/sec. When you render it, depending on the format, the framerate can be lower. The thing about rendering at a lower frame rate is you sometimes end up with a one frame overlap. This means that if you have a jump cut (strait from one scene to the next, as opposed to a fade transition) you get one frame that's actually a combination of the first frame of the scene right after it and the last frame of the scene right before it.

Now a while ago, I was rewatching my Superman vid for the enth time. I wasn't thinking about differing frame rates. I just wanted to check my vid for errors. I happened to notice that one scene transition in particular seemed too abrupt. Awkward. Like it does when there's a stray frame. I actually thought this single frame overlap was an error. At first I went back in my vid project looking for the error. I found that the last frame on the first clip was maybe 10% darker than the rest of the clip, and thought perhaps that was what I'd seen (and if it had been, I figure I'd probably have been able to detect that too). Eventually I double checked with the exported video file and realized it was an overlap thing. After spending a good hour laughing at my own freakishness, I closed Windows Media Player and decided to pretend the whole thing had never happened.

The law states that any clip under four frames in length is officially in subliminal message range.

I want my sanity back.



So I downloaded and watched A Cinderella Story last night. It was as stupid as I thought it would be, but Chad Michael Murray was hot. Yay for hotness! I want to download Catwoman now that Ted said it was so bad it was awesome.

Comments

[tehshiny.livejournal.com]

Aww, you didn't enjoy A Cinderella Story? But it's so charming in its predictable, corny, numerous plotholes way.

Do let me know when you watch Catwoman. :D

[on-the-ground.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, you recommending "The OC" fic... I've seen just 4 episodes and I have LOTS of B/J to read... but maybe I'll give it a try...

[permetaform]

...what does it mean when you can see subliminal messages??

::quavers in PH34R::

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Well, I couldn't see it. I just knew it was there. And come on -- I'm sure you could kind of tell too! It's more noticeable in that vid, I think, because almost all the cuts are jump cuts and it's six minutes long.

The overlap frame I saw initially was between the two coffin scenes, and I'm fairly positive there's one between the last two clips of Brian's jeep pulling up with the word FAGGOT sprayed on the side, though I haven't checked. There are probably more, but if I keep looking at my vid that closely my eyes are going to fall out of my head.