Day of rest
Jun. 29th, 2012 01:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arduinnaAlmost two months ago, I asked for today off from work, because I know what Vividcon deadline day is like, and there is no way a few hours in the evening is enough time. This was meant to be a day of panic and flail, with last-minute fixes to the vid (or, worst-case, still filling in black space), and then dealing with exporting and aspect ratios and tech fail.
Instead, it's day of rest*, becausetherienne and I finished our vid last night, exported it, and uploaded it more than 24 hours before the deadline.
Vidding Deadline Threat Level: KITTENS.
Unfortunately, Vidding Deadline Threat Level Adrenaline Reaction: BEARS
So we spent the next hour having little bursts of panic at each other, because how is it possible to be done and uploaded before the deadline? Vid farr is not over till the deadline passes!
Then I went home and we got on the phone and panicked at each other more. See above, re: vid farr and bears.
Then I fell asleep in my chair before I could manage to write a post. I may have been a little tired.
And now? I am home, lounging about my apartment with my cats for the first time in weeks. I can clean my pit of a place, and buy groceries omg, and maybe watch some tv, or read...
I still don't quite believe it, and am braced to find out thattherienne has gotten word from Lum and Ian that we screwed something up horribly, and need to fix it right damn now.
But until that email comes in, it is kittens all around. Yay!
* It is not actually that restful a day so far. I got home last night after midnight to the sight of a van from my oil company pulling away from in front of the house, and the scent of oil in my apartment, but no message from my landlord's son, so I figured it was a problem with his tank that had been handled.
Then this morning I got woken up a bit after 10 by a call saying that he'd found a leak in my tank last night (just a tiny pinhole leak), which had been plugged, but today they were coming to drain & remove the old tank, and install & fill a new one.
So now the basement under my feet is full of oil-company guys yelling and banging and drilling and otherwise using implements of destruction to scare the hell out of my cats.
But still. I am not at work! And I am not over attherienne's! I am HOME! \o/
So have some kittens:
Instead, it's day of rest*, because
therienne and I finished our vid last night, exported it, and uploaded it more than 24 hours before the deadline. Vidding Deadline Threat Level: KITTENS.
Unfortunately, Vidding Deadline Threat Level Adrenaline Reaction: BEARS
So we spent the next hour having little bursts of panic at each other, because how is it possible to be done and uploaded before the deadline? Vid farr is not over till the deadline passes!
Then I went home and we got on the phone and panicked at each other more. See above, re: vid farr and bears.
Then I fell asleep in my chair before I could manage to write a post. I may have been a little tired.
And now? I am home, lounging about my apartment with my cats for the first time in weeks. I can clean my pit of a place, and buy groceries omg, and maybe watch some tv, or read...
I still don't quite believe it, and am braced to find out that
therienne has gotten word from Lum and Ian that we screwed something up horribly, and need to fix it right damn now. But until that email comes in, it is kittens all around. Yay!
* It is not actually that restful a day so far. I got home last night after midnight to the sight of a van from my oil company pulling away from in front of the house, and the scent of oil in my apartment, but no message from my landlord's son, so I figured it was a problem with his tank that had been handled.
Then this morning I got woken up a bit after 10 by a call saying that he'd found a leak in my tank last night (just a tiny pinhole leak), which had been plugged, but today they were coming to drain & remove the old tank, and install & fill a new one.
So now the basement under my feet is full of oil-company guys yelling and banging and drilling and otherwise using implements of destruction to scare the hell out of my cats.
But still. I am not at work! And I am not over at
therienne's! I am HOME! \o/So have some kittens:
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Date: 2012-06-29 07:52 pm (UTC)And then: KITTENS. Omg, they are so cute. And just from these two pics, you can tell that you have chosen the PERFECT NAMES. Sneaky undercover spy versus laid-back, long-limbed layabout limbs! *eg*
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Date: 2012-06-30 03:27 am (UTC)And heee, yes, re the names. Even down to Hobbes needing more cuddling/comforting when things get scary...
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Date: 2012-06-29 10:40 pm (UTC)*waits for Compressor*
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Date: 2012-06-30 03:30 am (UTC)(Seriously, I think of dealing with manual exports, and could weep for the joy of Compressor and Adobe Media Encoder on the Premiere side.)
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Date: 2012-06-30 07:33 am (UTC)I ended up having what looks like interlacing, but deinterlacing didn't fix the problem, so I have no idea what it'll look like on a big screen -- probably total crap. The tech side of vidding is such a nightmare for me. GAH.
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Date: 2012-06-30 06:51 pm (UTC)Oh, huh, on the fake interlacing. If it's interlacing it shouldn't be a problem on the big screen, since DVD players are used to handling interlaced source. (As long as the field order isn't reversed, but Ian will notice that and let you know.)
But! Also if you want, S and I will let you know -- she has a DVD authoring program, so we always test our vids on an actual tv before we upload 'em, and if you want us to do that for you tonight, we're happy to. We're heading out shortly to see Avengers again and then get some dinner, but we'll be back by ... er, let's say 10pm our time at the latest, and then we can test it. (If you'd rather just wait for Lum and Ian, that's fine -- however you want to do it!)
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Date: 2012-06-30 08:25 pm (UTC)Unfortunately, that's why I know the lines are definitely there. But couldn't figure out a way to fix them, dammit, and I hate that. Deinterlacing actually made it look a little worse, and I couldn't think of anything else to try. I just hope it doesn't look totally horrible on a giant screen.
It's ironic that when I was vidding with off-air S-VHS or VHS source, and losing quality duping down another generation, I *dreamed* of having DVD-quality source. And now I realize that introduces a whole new set of issues, like freaking digital artifacts, and a boatload of other headache-inducing crap. BLEH.
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Date: 2012-06-30 11:08 pm (UTC)Oh, huh! Okay, that's odd. And completely frustrating, argh.
If you're at the point of "it's done and gone" and moving on (which, I know that place, and it is a good place to be!), ignore the rest of this; but if you do want more eyes on it, we can either try poking at your uncompressed .mov to see if we can smooth it out somehow, or you can email me your export/compressor settings and I can compare them to what I used last year, see if there's something that might be causing it.
And man, seriously -- the further we advance, the more places there are for complications! At least capturing off tapes, everything was in the same size, even if the quality was fuzzy. Now there's artifacting and compression and different sizes from different sources...
But hey, at least this year S and I finally learned how to work off ripped source, which we have been utterly unable to do for years now. Lookit us, rocking the 2004 tech skills! \o/ *g*
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Date: 2012-07-01 02:29 am (UTC)You don't mean still poking at it for VVC, right? Just to solve the problem? Because, yes, I'd really like to figure out how to get rid of them, and would love some help.
I'm still capturing. The one time I got all ambitious and tried to rip, the DVD was one of the rare ones that foiled ripping and re-encoding, so I abandoned learning all of that out of frustration.
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Date: 2012-07-01 04:17 am (UTC)We're around for a bit longer tonight, or we can look at it tomorrow afternoon/evening - it would be sooner, but I have to see my dad tomorrow.
If you toss it up somewhere for us, we'll give it a shot!
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Date: 2012-07-01 05:05 am (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2012-07-01 05:24 am (UTC)Hmm - email me and S both, to be safe. vids at trickster org will get to us, or the more standard first name at trickster for us both.
And no worries on size/time; at this point, we'll be tackling it tomorrow anyway. *g*
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