Yearly Archives: 2006

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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A Conversation, and an Update on Progress

I made a very rough video in 1.5 hours, for a guy who was paying $15 per video you uploaded to his website, which is interestingly devoted to probing the phenomena of online instant message conversations through the medium of user-submitted re-enactment videos. Being somewhat intrigued by this idea, and somewhat poor, I submitted a [...]
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After Effects Introductory Workshop!

Greetings fellow Mediaworks students. I am conducting an introductory workshop on Adobe After Effects tomorrow (Wed 2006-04-26) in the Multimedia Lab, from 11am to 1pm. You can download the PDF version of the handout here. This might be useful if there weren’t enough copies to go around at the workshop, or if you couldn’t attend, [...]
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