Monthly Archives: May 2006

The Last Week + New Title = Transference Simulation

The last week has been good. I took last weekend off, and went to the folk-life festival to hang out with my mother. This is the first break I’ve really allowed myself, and I think it was a good thing to do at that point, to clear my head of obsessing about my project, and [...]
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Rough Cut

You can download my Rough Cut here. It is a 25MiB MP4 video file (MPEG4 AVC standard h.264 video, aac audio), which should play equally well in Quicktime and the VideoLAN Client. You can also download this file from a YouSendIt Post, in case the previous link did not work for you. The right-click, “save [...]
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Compositing

For the past 15 hours pretty much straight (with a brief jaunt over to see how Chloé’s chessboard animations are going), I have been chairbound in front of my computer, compositing, tweaking, and aligning. I have everything pretty much polished and finalized up to 2:15. Unfortunately, I did not anticipate the brute-force labor that this [...]
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Rough Rough Cut

Here is the rough rough cut that I showed at the critique session today. The file is an MP4 video file (24.9MiB), which you can easily download and view with VideoLan Client or Quicktime. I would very much appreciate anyone who downloads and watches it to give me scathing criticism on structure, shots that are [...]
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The Red Camera

I ran across a very interesting thing during my research for my SOS: Media application, which I happen to be currently diligently working on (woo procrastination caused by imminent destruction!). At this blog entry, linked from this blog, found by this google search, I read about the camera Red, which completely blew my mind. Basically [...]
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Witty Abandon

I have decided to scrap my project, which is entirely too much work, and really just isn’t working. In its stead, there will be a 10 minute video quite similar to the following, but likely more seizure-inducing and horrible. just kidding. In all seriousness though, the compositing goes well, and very very slowly. Approximately 18 [...]
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The Real Work Begins

Yesterday was spent fiddling with After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Live, tweaking all of the stuff I have done and making it better. I also experimented a good bit to finalize the process of inter-operating between AE and Premiere. Dynamic Link is nice, but boi do I wish I had 2GiB of ram instead of [...]
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Plans for Next Year?

As a sophomore-level student taking Mediaworks, I am somewhat atypical. Having another two years ahead of me, I have been thinking awhile now about what I want to do next year. I have been entertaining 3 options: Student Originated Studies: Media Electronic Media Internship (or media loan) Another Program(s) at Evergreen to gain a wider [...]
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Roughly Edited Sequence, soundtrack

Here is the roughly edited sequence from my class critique session last Thursday. It is represents the summation of my work up to that point: about 2 minutes of soundtrack relatively complete, and 1:30 of video edited and composited roughly. In the first portion of the sequence of this sequence, the audio was created to [...]
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Visual Kei

Thanks to a comment on a previous entry, and a trip to Jessica / Twigette’s myspace page, I happened accross a rather excellent video (higher quality) by the Visual Kei Japanese rock group Dir en Grey. It is a really inspirational music video, and I laughed out loud several times while watching it. Perhaps you [...]
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