My kingdom for a mac
Sep. 29th, 2006 06:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I've been up all night editing.
A TWO MINUTE VIDEO.
And when I say I've been up all night editing.
I really mean I've been up all night watching windowsshittymaker crash.
And sitting through rendering time,
and uploading to youtube,
and then discovering something wrong,
and fixing it, and waiting for render,
and uploading to youtube,
and discovering my carefully timed fade out got cut off,
by youtube.
And then watching the editing program crash, again.
Again I bitch about the thing,
which I knew to be inferior software,
and really have no right to bitch.
I'm getting it to do what I want,
just have to remember to save every five seconds.
It doesn't give me tight enough control over the audio,
but I've managed to mostly get around that.
Some more precise things I can't do,
because I can't say to it:
"at 54 seconds of clip 2 begin playing specified song starting at 15.33 seconds of the song clip and ending at 34.89 seconds of the song clip"
Glory be, that would be nice.
Frame by frame control would also be nice.
Alas, alas.
So I've got two new videos sitting in private mode,
the 2 minute one that I spent my whole night on,
will likely be posted here later today.
I lie a little about the ALL NIGHT,
there was also rebooting,
and spitefully turning my back on it and reading.
I bitch, but it's totally worth it,
to look at a bunch of clips, see how I want them to end up in my head,
and then make it reality.
A TWO MINUTE VIDEO.
And when I say I've been up all night editing.
I really mean I've been up all night watching windowsshittymaker crash.
And sitting through rendering time,
and uploading to youtube,
and then discovering something wrong,
and fixing it, and waiting for render,
and uploading to youtube,
and discovering my carefully timed fade out got cut off,
by youtube.
And then watching the editing program crash, again.
Again I bitch about the thing,
which I knew to be inferior software,
and really have no right to bitch.
I'm getting it to do what I want,
just have to remember to save every five seconds.
It doesn't give me tight enough control over the audio,
but I've managed to mostly get around that.
Some more precise things I can't do,
because I can't say to it:
"at 54 seconds of clip 2 begin playing specified song starting at 15.33 seconds of the song clip and ending at 34.89 seconds of the song clip"
Glory be, that would be nice.
Frame by frame control would also be nice.
Alas, alas.
So I've got two new videos sitting in private mode,
the 2 minute one that I spent my whole night on,
will likely be posted here later today.
I lie a little about the ALL NIGHT,
there was also rebooting,
and spitefully turning my back on it and reading.
I bitch, but it's totally worth it,
to look at a bunch of clips, see how I want them to end up in my head,
and then make it reality.