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The best Hong Kong action French period romantic monster movie evah!
Even though I'm very disgusted with the whole vid sharing thing right now, I've posted a new vid. Yes, that's a big L painted on my forehead.
Fraternité
Fandom: Brotherhood of the Wolf
Song: Blue Lily Red Lotus
Artist: Susheela Raman
File: QT Divx avi, 23.6MB
I recommend VLC media player (there's a link at my site) as always -- makes this look much better.
I can't say that anyone who hasn't seen the movie will be able to get much out of this, but then, I never know. I thought people who hadn't seen Deadwood wouldn't be able to parse Come to Jesus, but apparently I was wrong. So.
In the "because I am stupid" department. Last night when I was making the web encoded version of this, I realized that I'm about thisfar from committing seppuku over this encoding thing. Everyone else I see around me gets these flawless encodes that have no pixelization to speak of, and yet I cannot seem to achieve that. I suppose I should just be happy that I have a way to get a large window file up at a reasonable DL size, but I want these flawless encodes, too. The instructions at astolat's LJ that everyone mentions are for Windows, and I'm a Macolyte. I keep fiddling with things, trying programs, to no avail. These Divx avis are the only thing I know how to make, but they pixelate in strange places for no discernible reason. I don't have a lot of the fancyass programs many vidders do, either. I've literally begged people for their processes to get a better encode, but... they never respond. I find this really discouraging. For the most part this file looks good, I think, but.. it could be a lot better.
Anyway. The one thing I did manage to figure out last night after months of frustration was that somewhere along the line, in DLing all these encoding programs, my settings for the QT player had been pretty much bunged, and that was why they were reading my avi files so poorly. Here I roll my eyes at the people who email me and whine about how their computer won't let them watch my vids (I always say, if you're on a Windows computer, please go into your WMP defaults and uncheck "make WMP your default player" and like magic, it works!), and here I didn't even think to go back and check if my default settings had been bunged up. Yup. So I reset them, looking for the one that mentions avis, and sure enough, it plays the files less herky jerky than it has been recently. You know that thing about how if you give a bunch of monkeys typewriters? Yeah.
So, the dumbass finally at least figured that out. The good news is that I can now check the encodes in QT without wanting to cry, so I can make sure everything's copacetic in both QT and VLC. The bad news is, they still look like shit in the regular QT player -- seems utterly unable to handle a slow pan and certain other types of shots, and it's way, way mushy. But at least the superfast cuts in this don't disappear completely now in the QT player.
But. On with the void!
Fraternité
Fandom: Brotherhood of the Wolf
Song: Blue Lily Red Lotus
Artist: Susheela Raman
File: QT Divx avi, 23.6MB
I recommend VLC media player (there's a link at my site) as always -- makes this look much better.
I can't say that anyone who hasn't seen the movie will be able to get much out of this, but then, I never know. I thought people who hadn't seen Deadwood wouldn't be able to parse Come to Jesus, but apparently I was wrong. So.
In the "because I am stupid" department. Last night when I was making the web encoded version of this, I realized that I'm about thisfar from committing seppuku over this encoding thing. Everyone else I see around me gets these flawless encodes that have no pixelization to speak of, and yet I cannot seem to achieve that. I suppose I should just be happy that I have a way to get a large window file up at a reasonable DL size, but I want these flawless encodes, too. The instructions at astolat's LJ that everyone mentions are for Windows, and I'm a Macolyte. I keep fiddling with things, trying programs, to no avail. These Divx avis are the only thing I know how to make, but they pixelate in strange places for no discernible reason. I don't have a lot of the fancyass programs many vidders do, either. I've literally begged people for their processes to get a better encode, but... they never respond. I find this really discouraging. For the most part this file looks good, I think, but.. it could be a lot better.
Anyway. The one thing I did manage to figure out last night after months of frustration was that somewhere along the line, in DLing all these encoding programs, my settings for the QT player had been pretty much bunged, and that was why they were reading my avi files so poorly. Here I roll my eyes at the people who email me and whine about how their computer won't let them watch my vids (I always say, if you're on a Windows computer, please go into your WMP defaults and uncheck "make WMP your default player" and like magic, it works!), and here I didn't even think to go back and check if my default settings had been bunged up. Yup. So I reset them, looking for the one that mentions avis, and sure enough, it plays the files less herky jerky than it has been recently. You know that thing about how if you give a bunch of monkeys typewriters? Yeah.
So, the dumbass finally at least figured that out. The good news is that I can now check the encodes in QT without wanting to cry, so I can make sure everything's copacetic in both QT and VLC. The bad news is, they still look like shit in the regular QT player -- seems utterly unable to handle a slow pan and certain other types of shots, and it's way, way mushy. But at least the superfast cuts in this don't disappear completely now in the QT player.
But. On with the void!
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So, the vid. LOVE IT! I've been waiting for this since you did your little poll 'lo these many months ago and I'm not disappointed about the wait!
Unusual choice of music but it so totally works. Unusual movie so why shouldn't it have unusal music. The pacing was wonderful. Slow and rather dreamy at first, then the beat steps up and then steps up again. Great clip choices.
I must go back and watch it again. This one ranks up with my favorite vids.
BTW? The coding on my was perfect. No errant pixel patches or anything else.
Well shit! Now I need BotW icons! sigh! an icon junkies work is never done!
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I need some BOTW icons, too. I think I might try to capture some jpgs from the clips I dumped in, and see if I can come up with anything. If i do and you want some, just let me know.