What the Shite is That?

This number can't be right.

Farg. Need to redo this preset.

If Anything Happens, Jacob is Just A Mcguffin

This Should Be A Fun Movie

The comic book is hella fun. I can't imagine this movie being dull in anyway.


http://onelittleseedling.blogspot.com/2008/10/geekn-out.html

Still To This Day One Of The Best Songs Ever Produced

While waiting for a rending I've been sifting through music samples and just listening to old jams again. This one still holds up today and transports my mind somewhere else.

Speaking of Tweets... Here's the Chirp!

For You Twitwits. Heh. I kid I kid

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/10/twitterpeek-a-twitter-only-handset/

It's only $200 and you can Tweet for life! In the Jungle you can Tweet! Halfway out the door... Tweet! Biting your sandwich, Tweet! Heh.

It's amazing that Twitter is big enough to have a dedicated device. I mean it's got it's own direct channel to itself. Amazing. I can't wait for the Blogger device. Then I could duct tape the device to the back of my phone and clip both onto my portable tape player. I assume this is aimed at kids that don't have the cash for internets on the phone and yet enough to throw down $200 for a singular purpose device. But I'm guessing that these people most likely already have an iPod in their pocket as well. I guess it beats losing minutes directly talking to people and paying text, for a lifetime. Heh. That's what Twitter is like to me, it's like a mass portal of texting gone mad. It's like if you want to see every text in the world. Do you want to see every text just sent a fraction of a fraction of millisecond ago? How about overlapping dialogue on a singular subject intertwined in virtually tagged layers? That's what Twitter is. It's sorta like that late night random drunk texting all colliding in one giant ball. I'm not harshing on it, I just think it's interesting. I mean shit tons of people do it. I'm sure there's going to be a new language developed around this world of short line blurbing. It's one step away from hearing Uncle Owen say "You speak Bocce?"

I Googlizer Eh Googley

It's so funny when you have a sequence of words that end up being googlized then linked and popular. Here's a random few that always bring people to my site.

Nazi Scalps

Die Die Die I Can't Some random artist that people google for but end up clicking my site, then watching the vid.

But the winner of the googlizing fish hook to my blog is
Macross Casting

But people searching for Nazi Scalps seems to be quickly surpassing it, which is a little creepy. Maybe I shall sell them? Heh. But my "100 Nazi Scalps" Google standing disappeared. And My "16 Hotties" has slipped to the middle of the google page. Damn.

Maybe I should write a Flynn returns, Tron 2011 article about Daft Punk?

I Love 5 A.M. and Daylight Savings

It's when I get most of my shit done.

its super quiet

Who Brought The Fuck'n Drunk Ewoks?

Besides the Larry David and Seinfeld duo in Curb, this duo of Ewoks are the second best thing to ever happen to TV. They should get their own show, although I fear it would end up like the Geico caveman show. Anyways, I can watch this all day. You MUST watch the last minute... it's fuck'n great. Well the whole thing is actually friggen funny. But that last half is awesome. That brown Ewok was just like "fuck it, I'm on TV, I'm an Ewok, fuck you!"

I fuck'n love the Ewok noises. Heh. Man, I need to have some Ewok party.

I love how they try to drink all the Vodka. Too bad the grey one got denied by Darth Vader. Never leave Martini's around Ewoks... unless you want to Parteh!

Close The Pod Bay Doors/ A Giant Note To Self

Communication lines are down and I'm hunkered in my little video dome. My own little Nebuchadnezzar:

But I won't let this little dream die.

So it's been a little over a year I got these machines, and I'm still hitting walls on my editing. I spent my time practicing, coloring and learning Motion, but didn't get into the specifics. I've been reluctant to finish these videos that have been sitting around due to the fact I really didn't know where to begin with each project. I ended up getting some hard drives over the past year and slowly loading all the videos one at a time. I've been reviewing each one, and trying to see how I can work around some issues. The problem is that I'm lazy when I get uninterested. I tend to move on and do other things. I need to stop that.

When I first got the machines I was super excited, because it can cut video like butter in 100 degree weather, BUT what I didn't hold into account is what do I do when I shoot on various formats, with different speeds. Do I just drop it in a timeline and let it auto choose? Do I keep everything in SD and conform to those specs? What do I do if I shot one in progressive and one interlaced? Do the cameras even shoot in real progressive? What is 422? Google is my buddy pal. I went ahead and started editing the first 2 videos that I shot with mixed footage. I went along cutting away here and there, but one of the video's sound is a little finicky, so I've been trying to learn ways to fix that. It's not bad, just a little annoying to me and I'm no sound guy. The other video I was cutting I thought looked pretty decent, but when I exported it last week to test how it would look on dvd, it looked lame. It didn't look horrible, but just outputted a frustrating image. The HD footage looked off compared to the SD counterpart. What the fuck do I do? Shouldn't the HD even though compressed still look equal if not better than the SD? Back to google. Some said to just edit in SD timeline and others said up-convert. Since I really didn't like the look of the HD to SD output I decided to do the up-convert.

And here's where even the hulking new mean machine is still brought to it's knees. First of all there's some effects I can't even do on my Mac Pro due to the 256mb video card. I either have to unplug the 2nd monitor, shut down and restart to edit the sequence or edit that specific shot on my Macbook Pro, cause it has a 512mb card. Thank God I went with the 512mb. That thing really helped me out on some spots. Once I get a proper video card for my Mac Pro, it won't really matter. Then there was the problem of the output quality of the video. I really didn't like the look. So just this past week I decided to do a test of uprez'n the SD to HD and cutting on a HD timeline. I did a 10 sec clip test, and boom, it looked hella better. So I decided I'll have to uprez ALL the SD video. And here is the giant buttplug up the old kazoo. 15hr encodes are back! Heh. Oh wells. As much as I'd like to blame technology on my lateness it really comes down to my ADHD and... well MASSIVE procrastination when I run into problems. So this week when I ran into these hiccups I decided to shut off my phone and just plunge into these suckers. I'm sick of sitting with my thumb up my ass on these things. I can be so lame, and I need to grow up and deal.

So last night I got the big guy up-converting the final video tape:
Yup, that's 14hrs of encoding. This is the encode before the re-edit. It's like having to fix a pie by remaking the dough.

No biggie. It's just the way it is. At least now I know what to do in these situations and I know which code to use.

Note to self:
XL2-422 30p with the better adaptive set to on.

Have a cookie.

Well it looks like my encode is almost done. Just another hour left, then back to cutting.

Oh, and on another side note if you were wondering why I have a mixer next to my Macbook Pro, it's cause I'm slowly building a beat laboratory . Heh. The Mench got me all jazzed up on mixing, and if one thing that keeps me sane in this little hole, it is the god forschtink'n music. So I got a used technics, this awesome program on sale and this is how it works:
I wish I could have jammed on it while waiting for the encode, but I had to return the turntable to Guitar Center to get fixed due to a missing channel. At least the fix is free, but it'll be about a week. Oh wells.

Note to self, shut ups and gets a back to it. The video junx that is. Oh and if you're wondering why my phone is out, this is why. I'm really trying this time to get all this shitake done. Email me if you need to. I must say it has been nice with the phone off the past few days. I should rip out my wifi now...