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The problem doing comedy opv

admin — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:05:04 +0000

After editing for another couple of hours straight you’ll get what we call “this ain’t funny, what was I thinking?” kind of feelings. While this isn’t really comedy comedy, if you enjoy “evil parody” it certainly should be funny. I just can’t see it anymore after eh… 16-20 hours?? I had this before finishing / releasing every video of mine. I couldn’t even see the end result without gagging, only to find them absolutely great a few months afterwards.

Lipsync heavy, chapter 3 almost ready

admin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:01:50 +0000

Just writing in to say that despite there’s a huge amount of lipsync done and still to come I’ve almost finished chapter 3! Sometimes I wonder if I’m not ‘seeing things’ it’s that hard to edit. It’s one of these edits you will need to watch extremely close to see it’s genius I guess. Just casually watching, without reading the characters body movements won’t do. It’s probably a trade of all my videos so far, and the best selling point. I wonder if I’m capable of making OPVs without that type “eye” for even the smallest of movements? *Filled with self doubt*

A quick update on project buzzer beat

admin — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:16:27 +0000

Instead of painstakingly editing second by second I took the time today to explore the concepts for the storyboard and whether they’d work or not with the available footage. At this stage 1 chapter is finished and of the other 6, I’m convinced 5 are going to work. I have my doubts on the last one though, it’s going to be extremely difficult to get the ‘pam pam paaaam‘ in there. It’s a very important one though, because it gives the video it’s ‘finish’.

I spent most of the editing so far on getting the intro right, of which I will give a sneak preview by a screen capture.

As you can see the intro has a pretty big warning icons. Contains violence, sex, drugs, mobbing and swearing.

Generally this OPV is all about exaggerating. I simply took 7 bits of pieces of this story and exaggerated it to no end. The end result will be so evil it has no equal. Especially somewhere in the chapter ‘Meaningful male dialog’, I’m trying really hard not to let Yamapi say the last sentence to that but I make absolutely no promises hahaha. God help me if it fits with the facial expression and mouth movements…

Let’s just say the one thing I’m not exaggerating are the warnings on this video.

Project ‘Buzzer Beat’

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:53:39 +0000

Finally I have begun to edit a new drama! This time it’s this summer’s ‘getsu 9′ drama “Buzzer Beat”. To be quite honest, I didn’t have ideas for it for a long time until it hit me: I could do multiple sections in one video.

So far I’ve edited up until chapter two, and it’s going to be longer than my usual videos because of the massive amount of ideas crammed in there together. I do hope I’m able to get it done in my vacation, when I go back to work it’s going to be harder. ^^; Hope to show it to you soon!

Crashes

admin — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:05:00 +0000

I was underway with the mystery project until Premiere decided to crash on me. Shame on me for editing on Windows. It was the keyframe.h138 error and once your project has crashed on that, the fix no longer works producing the time.cpp-352 error. I’ve had this before and I knew using the fix for keyframe.h138 at least helped to avoid this particular crash, but I forgot (as the wiki page also says).

It’s not bad really, I was merely still experimenting with big blocks of footage. I also did something wrong exporting footage to RAW which I have to do anyways so the program will import it (hates xvid or divx with a vengeance). If you export to raw and you want to use the audio you also have to export the audio to PCM to have the program be nice to you. If you don’t it’s just going to import the video only. Got a couple 100 gigabytes? I luckily do.

Furthermore I had an issue trying to get Premiere to ‘remember’ the edits I made to audio tracks. I dimmed the volume here and there and I’m sure I’ve done it right, but every time I restarted the program all volume was down to 0 db. If I had money growing on trees I would definitely own a Mac as I’ve been hearing so many great things about it. Unfortunately… I must make it happen on a Windoze.

A new mystery project

admin — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:57:55 +0000

I’ve been running around with this new video editing project in my head for weeks now. There was always something getting in the way to kickstart it. Now I’m hoping I’ll be able to start it over the holidays. I won’t disclose a lot of details regarding the project because even though the outline is in my head the idea is still very much open to interpretation.

The only thing I’ll be able to tell you up front is that it’s going to take me weeks/ months to get this done as it’s going to be a full customized dvd. I’m unsure if I’ll be able to release it to public, but we’ll see that when the time comes. It of course depends on how happy I am with the result as well.

In the meantime I’ve been sifting through my mom’s classical music collection for a detail I’ve already managed to work out.