Remasters of old Media Cannibals vids

[gwyn]

I posted about this to the Vividcon mailing list, but I realize not everyone may read or get mail from the list (and no, I didn't post to the LJ because... um, I'm not a member of the community, I just have it bookmarked). I've been working with justacat to get some workable, iDVD-ready copies of some of our older Professionals vids for a Media Cannibals digital remasters disc.

As it stands, it looks like we will definitely have A Fire is Burning, Detachable Penis, 500 Miles, and Tender Comrade. We may or may not be able to pull off one more. I'd hoped to get the Wiseguy vid Lives in the Balance, but I can't seem to get a copy of it; if I do, I would love to include it. There will also be some of my older vids, though I realize those aren't selling points like the Pros vids: There's No Way Out of Here (mm), Fall in the Light (XF), and Do What You Have to Do (BtVS). It's a WIP disc, with more adding as we go along.

I'm asking people if they think they might want to get a copy at the con. I don't want to even think about mail order right now, because after the thankless, bitter hell of doing the mail order for the #$%!@$# MCs last tape, I never ever want to do large-scale orders that way again. But I may have to consider it; I just don't want to right now. I need to know how many I have to make, because I might have to enlist help on it. They'll run in the same price range as my usual on discs at cons -- $3-5 depending on quantity. I've heard from only about 10 people so far. I'm really serious when I say: If I don't know if you might (you're not under obligation at all, I'm just getting a head count) want one, you probably won't get one. I'm only going to make enough to cover the general count I get from responses (give or take a couple), though you can certainly have a friend claim one for you if you're not going. You can drop me a comment here or at gwynethr at gmail dot com. Again, you're not under any obligation, I just need a sense of whether I can burn these myself or if I have to scramble a way to get more made.

(Also, does anyone know if the hotel allows us to ship things to it in advance? Have you done this?)

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In other vid news: I hate capturing clips. I just hate it. In the olden days, adding clips was part of the whole process -- you sat there with your box o' tapes and looked for clips as you laid them in. It's a lot nicer to do it on a computer, but... goddamn, I hate it. It takes forever, even for a little eight-ep series like Life on Mars. I just want to viiiiid... /whine

Comments

MC remastered vids

[taverymate.livejournal.com]

I would kill for a copy of the DVD, but I won't be at VVC (it's a physical impossibility these days even if the con didn't sell out so quickly due to the small attendee cap). However, I am trying to find someone who will be at VVC and willing to pick up the VVC DVD set for me. If I can find someone, I'll definitely ask if they can pick up the MC remastered vids DVD, too. So, not so helpful a response as it all depends on if I can find a kind VVC attendee who's willing to help out. Fingers crossed, but no sureity.

I know that there a number of Pros fans on the Pros-Lit list who'd be extremely interested in the MC vids DVD (vids have been a hot topic lately and the MC vids were spoken of longingly). Would you be OK with me posting this info to the list so that if anyone is going to be at VVC - or if they've a friend attending - they can add their "Yes, please!" to your count?

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[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

At the risk of seeming churlish, I'd rather not make this too public right now. My DVD burner can't handle doing large scale runs, and I have to make copies of other discs as well for the con. The last thing I want is a bunch of maybes and then breaking my burner for nothing (I find people to be increasingly unreliable in fandom these days, and it's really embittering me).

They will be going up on the Circuit archive in online form as soon as Justacat and I get everything together. I'm doing this kind of on my own because I never get any responses from other people about making the disc, and Justacat is recutting them all under my aegis, so there's a lot of work involved right now and we don't have much time to do it in. So, I guess what I'm saying is that I want people to get the disc if they want it, but I don't want to have people rustling up one of the other 125 attendees or whatever the number is, because I really can't handle that kind of traffic right now. Maybe after the con, Justacat and I will be able to figure out some way to distribute them on a larger scale without me becoming a raving lunatic again.

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[taverymate.livejournal.com]

OK. I know that you're feeling stessed at the moment, so offering a suggestion for AFTER the con, when things calm down and you have a chance to catch your breath. I think it would be worth asking on the Pros list if someone, or a couple of someones, would be willing to help out with duplicating the vid DVD. As you know, Pros fen have a long history of working together to make fannish items available to other Pros fen. And while duping and mailing out DVDs is quite a project for any one person, spreading the workload would help save your sanity *g*. And since the list is international, finding someone willing to dup the DVD who lives in Europe would greatly simply postage and currency issues.

This worked out rather well recently with getting DVD copies of Judge John Deed out to Pros fen - and the genesis was quite informal. Both American and European fen (German and British, IIRC) helped out.

As I've said before, several times, I'm thrilled that you are remastering your vids and the MC vids. I do think there is most definitely an audience for them, and the effort is much appreciated.

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[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think that sounds good. And I think some of my stress is that I work on a Mac, and I don't know what capabilities Windows machines have for duplicating a disc created in iDVD. In Macland, we can make what's called a Disc Image Copy and it not only takes up less space, all you have to do is open the Utility program, and click burn, and it uses the stored "image" copy of that disc (a read-only, so you can't make changes to it) to create a new disc. I have no idea if Windows has anything compatible, or if they, in their shitty "Microsoft products only" narrowness, will allow something created on a Mac to be copied this way. I will have to find out afterwards so that I can see what can be done.

I'll have to rely on you and Jessica to point me toward the reliable fans. ;-) I've really lost a lot of touch with people in the Pros world, sad to say. Well, everyone except my flist, these days.

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[taverymate.livejournal.com]

Wanted to let you know that there shouldn't be a problem with a PC being able to copy a Mac-created DVD. Bill Gates must be furious *g*. Emailing you with details.

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[(Anonymous)]

Hi there--

Hijacking Gwyn's comments to say that I would be willing to pick up both the VVC DVD set and the MC one for you, TaVeryMate -- and Gwyn, I'd like one of the latter for myself too, absolutely! I'm so very glad this is being undertaken, despite all the aggravations.

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[katallison.livejournal.com]

Arrrgghhh --- and damn, that's me with the anonymous comment above. I KEEEL LJ now for automatically logging me out all the goddamn time . . .

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[taverymate.livejournal.com]

Excuse the deleted comment; I started it before your identity was revealed *g* and when it posted, I found your reply which made it moot. I'll email you to find out the best way to get you the money for the DVDs and postage. Words cannot express how happy you've made me - really!