Tom is a black hole of luck

(I have a theory that anyone near him gets their luck absorbed by him. NEVER have I known anyone to got out of so many presentations tests assignments skipping class etc. so well and so casually as he does. Things ALWAYS work out for him. So I think he's sucking the luck from everyone around him and fucking us all over. And as I spend more time around him than anyone...)

Why do I always wind up having the weirdest most unreasonable random problems with things? First my capture file refused to save to my external, just wouldn't copy over, other things would but the 4gb video file would get 99% done copying and THEN would decide that though the video played fine and all, something was wrong with the file and it couldn't copy.

Then my second exercise for class? Yeah. Refused to save as a quicktime file for me. Again, got partway through, then decided something was wrong with the SOUND, of all things. Nevermind that, again, it played just fine, and I hadn't done a thing with the audio from any file but turn it off. Tried for like an hour or so, tried again the next morning, on three different computers... so, Matt, that's why that project of mine is in another file format - that's all I could get to work. I searched the internet for solutions, only three people in the history of the internet have had that problem, and no-one knew what to do with it.

Now, for no reason at all, my after effects is being bitchy and won't ram preview things at all for me. Well, rather, it'll do the first 30 seconds of my video. Then just loops back and plays that for me over again. Moving the time indicator will get a bit less than thirty seconds from whatever spot I put it at rendered...at the expense of anything else that'd been rendered out, the lil green line just gets eaten up by nothingness and disappears.

I have no fucking clue.

Sooo we're just going to export this and see how it looks so far...

sigh.

re-touched proposal for mapping video

Overall, I'm largely sticking to what I described in the previous post, but with a few added/altered details. While the idea of doing other points of view in memory is interesting, I think it strays a little from my concept, however I agree that jumping from hazy images in memory to writing would be a bit of a disconnect, visually anyway.

For the first track, I'm leaning toward clarifying exactly what it is that I'm seeing, probably by adding a slight blur to what's visible, except where my eyes were actually looking. This will simulate actual vision, as we can see a good deal but are only ever focusing on a small area of our field of vision.

The second track will remain as described, stills and short bits of motion, blurred and a little less detailed, the colors altered (not sure which direction yet, may alternate). This will represent how memory works, capturing small bits, though not always perfectly accurately.

The third track will be a combination of writing and drawings done from memory of what is shown in the video. The drawings will be sketchy, and not always mirror things quite as they were, both the writing and drawings being derivations of what was actually seen and then remembered, showing evidence of what actual thing they were culled from, but having a distinct nature of their own.

Definitely leaning toward going over to Pioneer Cemetary in town for the subject of this video, I really love it over there.. and it'll look very pretty in all the snow we just got nailed with, I think.