Video editing

Getting My Groove Back

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I’ve got all my ducks in a row for work tomorrow; clothes are ready, morning iced tea is brewed, the awesome tablet is ready to join my gaming laptop for tomorrow’s adventures! Now I’m just having some raspberry pink moscato, along with the last bit of raspberry tea in my pot … lotta raspberry beverage stuff going on and I didn’t plan for that. 😛

I did get some audio work done for the upcoming Bayonetta video; shaved the animation audio down to over two minutes, and there are plans in the works for another “special” ending. I have the audio imported into two SFM sessions… I know I probably say this on every single one of these projects, but I’ll be doing a few different things that I haven’t done before. 😛  I’m sure there will be a few happy accidents along the way, but that’s how learning goes with these things. I’m sure I’ll be here bitching about it if I run into any problems. :v

Evening Open Thread

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I don’t have much to write about. Between the last few days of work and some of my project work I’m pretty beat. I’ll have a video to release this weekend! I’m already prepping the second project, and it’s looking like I might be able to get at least two videos out of it. I spent the last hour chopping up video footage, and the new project has about 18 minutes total of content to work with, and currently about 3 minutes worth of animation out of it from the dialogue. This one will take me awhile to do, if I’m lucky I’ll be able to deploy something by October. Much like the last couple of videos I want to experiment with some new techniques that might require learning another piece of software.

The things I do to my brain for entertainment. 😛

Portal 2 Project In Progress!

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It was a fun trip down memory lane going through this little adventure! I had completely forgotten about the time we did a co-op get together in Portal 2’s single player campaign! I’ve chopped it up right where I want it to be, and I’m probably not going to be adding much to the video in terms of animation. It’s one of those cases where the video footage already tells a good enough story on its own, but that said… I could always tie something on at the end. 😛

With the video editing out of the way I’ll begin building my stage sometime tomorrow. Compared to my last video this project should be a walk in the park.

We Have Our Winner (rv2)

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Well, we had our three way duel in space, and the winner is Portal 2! Bayonetta came in 2nd, and Borderlands 2 got 3rd. Tomorrow I’ll begin cutting up Portal 2 footage in Shotcut. I haven’t put out a Portal 2 video in awhile, and it’ll be interesting to revisit some old fun we had. My imagination is already going into overtime trying to figure other things out, like scene staging.

The Choppening Continues

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I’ve been chopping Bayonetta footage for a good chunk of the evening. I’m almost done with my first pass, and I sense much content in this one too, even worth animating! 😛 If I don’t get distracted too much by play I might finish chopping it up, and I’ll start the same process for Portal 2 come Monday after a little bit of RnR. I haven’t been feeling too well these last couple of days. Laying my head down could do me some good, just as long as my imagination doesn’t try to fuck me over while I’m asleep.

Such Editing, Much Future Content

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While waiting to sync up with two important people to go shoot shit in outer space I’ve taken it upon myself to get some video cutting out of the way. I’m contemplating retiring the L4D2 holiday footage to the backburner due to the amount of content I’ve found in it… if I take that on I’ll probably vanish from YouTube for a good year. I’ll stand by the poll, and whatever choice wins during our epic space battle! I finished up doing my first cutup of Borderlands 2, so far that has about 12 minutes of footage, will probably shrink a bit more. I’m thinking of playing with some Bayonetta footage tomorrow, at least until destroy-things-in-spaceO’ Clock rolls around!

Evening Open Thread

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I’ll be declaring a winner tomorrow for the poll tomorrow, though I can already tell that it’s going to end in a three way… tie! Oh well, if that’s the case I have a plan involving an asteroid and a bunch of explosions!

Meanwhile I’ve pretty much wrapped up one holiday project and have started on another… with a problem, kinda. The original livestream was almost two hours long, and it took most of today to shave off an hour. There is a lot of crazy stupid content, giving me crazy stupid ideas, and as I continue to refine and cut I’m noticing this will most likely be a series in much the same way my previous Left 4 Dead saga. I might not be able to get it out this year, but at least I’ll have a holiday video in the pipeline for once.. even if it’s just silly gameplay footage.

Be back tomorrow with the results!

Well, That Was Quick.

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It looks like I won’t be adding any animations to the holiday project I’m working on. This was one of those cases where the footage does a good job without really adding to it. If anything I think it would cheapen it. Of course, this means I might have to delve into my other holiday livestream footage from Christmas past… a certain Left 4 Dead one that holds much contempt and despair. Something to take the piss out of! That should get some creative juices flowing! I’ll look into it sometime over the weekend, among other forms of mad science.

The Preppening

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While waiting on the poll results I’ve already begun work on the holiday video (never too early to start these things). It turns out I already had the game footage mostly cut up! All I had to do is trim out the chaff. Tomorrow I’ll go over extracting what audio I want to animate; currently it doesn’t look like it will be as much as the last project. Quite a bit of the video footage does a good job on its own, even when I’m not stoned.

I’m going to be working on this alongside whatever the poll decrees. I’m hoping we don’t end with a ridiculous tie… I might have to make another poll. 😛

I’m Seeing A Light At The End Of The Tunnel

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Today was a good day! I pieced together footage, trimmed a little here and there, recorded a line with someone, etc. I might have something done by the end of the week (emphasis on might). 🙂 When I post it will be a whole other story.

I’ll start on audio cleanup tomorrow, then the credits, then one last SFM thing. 😛