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worst hobby ever
Aug. 19th, 2012 01:19 pmI just spent a few dozen hours pulling hundreds of HD clips for a movie vid, each of which took five times as long as pulling clips from regular .vob files I DON'T KNOW WHY, and it was my first time using an Avisynth script and apparently I should have been doing some resizing, because I expected that I would put them into Premiere and the editing window would show the clip and then a black area around it, since the movie is not 16:9, but instead--this should probably have been obvious, and I would have noticed if I'd paid more attention when testing the first few clips--it just shows the part of the clip that fits in the window and the rest of it is off outside the viewing area. Maybe this can be fixed without re-pulling every clip! But maybe not! I definitely can't deal with trying to find out.
--no wait, it definitely can't, because NOW I realize that the file I was working with had some weird aspect ratio that I somehow never noticed. And even now, I keep going through the file flipping between its default aspect ratio (which is a little wider than 16:9) and 2.21:1, staring at faces, and I literally cannot tell which is correct, because apparently I'm blind. This is what I get for not just ripping the DVD, but I couldn't bear to spend money on this stupid movie.
This is exactly why I never do anything, you guys. Because I get all determined and I do all the work and I push through and then ALWAYS THIS, always something like this. See also: my newly-discovered ability to injure myself through every form of exercise known to humanity, including swimming.
UPDATE: I went back in and tried to problem-solve some shit, and now suddenly when I try to render I get a "disk write error," which did not happen when rendering the same clips ten minutes ago. Does this mean my hard drive is dying again? I would not be even remotely surprised.
--no wait, it definitely can't, because NOW I realize that the file I was working with had some weird aspect ratio that I somehow never noticed. And even now, I keep going through the file flipping between its default aspect ratio (which is a little wider than 16:9) and 2.21:1, staring at faces, and I literally cannot tell which is correct, because apparently I'm blind. This is what I get for not just ripping the DVD, but I couldn't bear to spend money on this stupid movie.
This is exactly why I never do anything, you guys. Because I get all determined and I do all the work and I push through and then ALWAYS THIS, always something like this. See also: my newly-discovered ability to injure myself through every form of exercise known to humanity, including swimming.
UPDATE: I went back in and tried to problem-solve some shit, and now suddenly when I try to render I get a "disk write error," which did not happen when rendering the same clips ten minutes ago. Does this mean my hard drive is dying again? I would not be even remotely surprised.
