Yay! For some reason the upload failed the first time, and I was about to blow a gasket, but it worked out this time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx2BqHTE_XY
Again, thanks, guys, for all the support, and I hope you enjoy it!
Ugh. This is how I spend my day off from work. I literally just spent the past eight hours straight working on this video! My eyes are about to dry out. This was a hell of a lot more work than I spent on the ROTJ video. But it's in the process of uploading right now, so hopefully the extra work will have been worth it. And, even more hopefully, YouTube won't get pissy and take it down.
You know, I think I might actually want to visit espn.com if it's like this! I'd take pretty unicorns over sports news any day!
But... how exactly do you put the Konami code into a website?
Well, hot damn, doubleofive! That new lighting scheme really did the trick! The video looks a hundred times better this time around!
I took the lamp shade off the lamp I'd been using before, and I turned on one light of the lamp tree to my left, diffusing it with wax paper and aiming it slightly toward the ceiling, and I think it turned out just great!
Thanks for all the help, guys. I've been fighting random problems like hell, but I think I finally have everything straightened out in order to make my next video. That being the case, I'll go ahead and announce what my next video will be...
Batman and Robin (and, no, it's not what you're thinking)!
Well, resolution matches at 720x480. The frame rate's a bit off. The project runs at 29.97, while the film runs at 23.98. Hmm, I would think the resolution might have more to do with it than the frame rate, though. Sigh. I don't know.
EDIT: If it helps, I'll give a bit more detail. I converted the DVD to .avi format with HandBrake and imported the resulting files into Pinnacle. Well... that's really all the detail I have.
Hmm. Never ventured into this forum before, but I'm doing some editing on my own, and I've run into a bit of a snag. I'm used to editing on Final Cut, but now I'm using Pinnacle. I just uploaded some video footage from a DVD, but the footage appears in my viewer window extremely zoomed in and distorted. I wondered if something was wrong with the transfer, but the thumbnails on my timeline show the complete image. I've even tried the command "Show full image," but it doesn't do anything. Any ideas?
I know. I actually found the remark kind of funny in reference to my response. I thought about how that's pretty much the gist of most funeral services anyway, but it struck me as humorous if someone actually got up to speak a eulogy and literally said, "She was elderly and had lived her life," and then sat back down. Cracks me up.
Nice eulogy there, buddy...
Wow, thanks a bunch, for the feedback and the help! Didn't think I'd get all my answers that quickly/easily. I'd been looking into tuner cards, but the more I looked, it began to seem to me like all they did was turn your PC into a television receiver, but it really can capture footage from existing televisions too? I might have to go with a USB plug-in version I've seen because I don't know if I'm tech-savvy enough to install a card (never done it before).
Weird, though. When I try to go to videodownloadx.com, all I get is this message:
Caught exception:Invalid controller specified (%C2%A0)
That ever happen to you before?
Well, I'm certainly glad to hear that! That being the case, I might as well ask some technical questions that have been bugging me/will bug me in the future in regards to plans I have. Hopefully someone might be able to help me out. Since I'm lacking the more sophisticated equipment I had back at school and now have to forage for myself, there are a few things I need to figure out:
1. Why the hell is it taking me so long to transfer DVDs? Like I hinted at in my video, I would have used my own clips from ROTJ rather than borrowing from someone's screencap website, but I just had the hardest time getting that to work. I had to get a new computer a few months ago, but before my old computer broke, I tested these kinds of things out, and I was able to transfer and edit material from a non copy-protected DVD within minutes. But I tried that for this video, and it was transferring the footage so slowly, it might have taken days to get finished, which is why I gave up and just searched the internet for pictures! I was hoping for full video, but I could settle for still images like this one. That's another problem. My old computer's DVD playback software had the simple ability to make screencaps, but the ones on my new computer seem to lack that.
2. How do you source footage from YouTube or other online videos? I have seen videos all the time, like homage videos, for example, where people take clips from other people's videos to use in their own. How do you do that?
3. What kind of connection do I need to capture video footage from my television to my computer? Say, for example, if I wanted to capture video game-playing footage? The cameras I used at school could be hooked into a monitor to record footage from it, but the camera I'm using at home only seems capable of output to a television but can't receive input as far as I can tell.
Heh, lighting's the one thing that's always pissed me off. I've taken film directing, film editing, and film production classes, know the name and function of pretty much every professional lighting instrument and how to work them and set them up and have had plenty experience doing so, but for some reason, I've never quite been able to figure out how to make a decent lighting scheme.
Hmm, I need re-assert the status quo while simultaneously plugging my new video or else everything that C3PX believed about these boards will slip through his fingers. I'm perfectly fine with you hearing Leia's voice in my posts, though only you could be so bold, so I have to figure out a way somehow for you to remake that connection. But it's really my fault. There's nothing you could have done. Oh, yeah, by the way, I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board.
=P
Oh, and: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlx2ItNLeFM just to make sure it's on the current page. ^_^
I guess that's a reason not to have had Yoda jump around like a maniac in the first place. It would make more sense for him to have to run and hide if his physical strength had been extremely diminished with age.
"Into exile I must go. Requires me to the plot does."
Heh, that fight always annoyed the hell out of me, as did Yoda's sudden compulsion to totally give up the ghost and run off to swamp land.
Haha! Love that pic!
Well, if you're gonna be that way, I'll just say there was a certain PM back in August from a certain new forum member who thought another forum member was female because of this member's avatar... =P
Ringing a bell?
Yeah, and it was some of my favorite filler, to be honest. I rarely make this complaint, but the Saiya-jin saga in the manga seems so empty, and the filler actually did quite a bit to flesh out both the story and especially the characters who we're re-introduced to after five years of peace.
Creaky chairs, hmm? So that's what this demographic likes. I guess my next video, instead of sampling music from whatever I'm reviewing, I'll just loop that chair creak over and over again. ^_~
Ugh, the only thing that annoys me is how poor the video quality seems. You spend $350 or so on a camera... well, I don't expect the kind of quality the cameras I used in college had, but I expect something, damnit! Maybe I should experiment with different lighting schemes.
But the weirdest thing is that all of you OT people now know what I look and sound like. Yeah, as hard as it is to believe, I don't look like my avatar Princess Leia in the least (and I might have been able to keep up the illusion had I not put us side by side in the video, d'oh!). There goes my anonymity. Well, there's only one thing for it: all of you have to die. Sorry 'bout that.