The best-laid plans...
Jan. 21st, 2005 10:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynI had this goal of writing up a usage post today, possibly on the subjunctive (which I think to most people sounds like a terrible eye condition), but my shoulders are on fire from this awkward computer setup at home, and I just don't have the strength. I would go get a massage, except I found out my contracting agency didn't pay me for my last week at the Evil Empire, and that my manager never got my time sheet to approve, and that it went to two guys whom I've never heard of who couldn't be bothered to ask, "Hmm, I wonder if this person needs the approval and why I'm getting this, perhaps they may not get paid if I ignore it..." And it'll be a couple weeks before the new owners pay us, since we became employees just after their pay cycle. Yippee!
But I am done with the Mag 7 vid. I just decided that last night. Even though![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
feochadn did indeed make frowny face (I do not like being so lame that she has to make frowny face, because then I fear she will never want to vid with me again) and says there's something bothering her she can't put her finger on (and that it's draggy), I made some tweaks to it last night and am gonna call fork time. Because the tweaks ended up causing me something akin to the old VCR problem of cascade damage -- all the timing went pearshaped after the tweaks and I couldn't get it back right the way I wanted it, so I had to fuck and fuck and fuck with it till I was just fried. I know, I know, time code is my friend. But it's not in a lot of ways -- I just don't respond to numbers. I edit by feeling. I can try to match the exact length of the clip I replace, but if I have to cut instead, then I start getting into "feeling" territory and everything goes to hell. I think it's paced better in the draggy spots, but it's all out of whack in my head-space now. I don't have time to figure out how to make it better since the deadline approacheth, and the truth is, it's never going to be as good as most of the vids there will be anyway, so I just have to accept that it's my little cowboys in love vid and be done with it. With all the cool things other people can do, this just doesn't stack up, but that's okay. It's like the cartoon I have on my refrigerator: The Little Engine That Could, But Was Too Self-Realized to Have to Prove It. The train is looking up the hill, and he's saying, "I think I can, but if I can't, that's cool too."
Question: Do any of the F&F people going to Escapade want to get together and do a dinner or something, a la the dinner the SG fans often do? I may not be the best person to ask this since I seem to be persona non grata these days, but I knowkadymae's got a panel up on the list, and there's enough of us going, I think, that maybe we could figure out a place to have a dinner gathering. If people are inclined, anyway. Just a thought, anyway.
But I am done with the Mag 7 vid. I just decided that last night. Even though
feochadn did indeed make frowny face (I do not like being so lame that she has to make frowny face, because then I fear she will never want to vid with me again) and says there's something bothering her she can't put her finger on (and that it's draggy), I made some tweaks to it last night and am gonna call fork time. Because the tweaks ended up causing me something akin to the old VCR problem of cascade damage -- all the timing went pearshaped after the tweaks and I couldn't get it back right the way I wanted it, so I had to fuck and fuck and fuck with it till I was just fried. I know, I know, time code is my friend. But it's not in a lot of ways -- I just don't respond to numbers. I edit by feeling. I can try to match the exact length of the clip I replace, but if I have to cut instead, then I start getting into "feeling" territory and everything goes to hell. I think it's paced better in the draggy spots, but it's all out of whack in my head-space now. I don't have time to figure out how to make it better since the deadline approacheth, and the truth is, it's never going to be as good as most of the vids there will be anyway, so I just have to accept that it's my little cowboys in love vid and be done with it. With all the cool things other people can do, this just doesn't stack up, but that's okay. It's like the cartoon I have on my refrigerator: The Little Engine That Could, But Was Too Self-Realized to Have to Prove It. The train is looking up the hill, and he's saying, "I think I can, but if I can't, that's cool too."Question: Do any of the F&F people going to Escapade want to get together and do a dinner or something, a la the dinner the SG fans often do? I may not be the best person to ask this since I seem to be persona non grata these days, but I know
kadymae's got a panel up on the list, and there's enough of us going, I think, that maybe we could figure out a place to have a dinner gathering. If people are inclined, anyway. Just a thought, anyway.
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Date: 2005-01-21 07:11 pm (UTC)Dinner - yes please that would be cool. Plus, MacG and Cinel and I have a suite agian, which I hearby offer up one night for improptu room party for speed freaks [g]
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Date: 2005-01-21 08:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-21 07:32 pm (UTC)(And I'm not an F&F person, but still looking forward to seeing you at Escapade :-)
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Date: 2005-01-21 08:20 pm (UTC)Good luck at your convention and in getting your paycheck.
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Date: 2005-01-22 12:17 am (UTC)Fuck I love your icon. I have to put the finishing touches on the Hector sarcastic-laugh one I planned.
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