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The Joys of Vidding
Jun. 30th, 2009 02:56 pmNot only did my Vividcon vid FINALLY GET UPLOADED and squared away (afaik) yesterday, but today I also have a working divx version for web release when the time comes. I know what you're thinking: but Andraste, weren't Vividcon vids due, like, three days ago?
The deadline was, indeed, the twenty-sixth. However, when I went to output the vid I'd been working on frantically for weeks, Premiere CS3 had decided that it would neither render nor export. After some attempts at trouble shooting, I established that it wasn't the codec I was using, a particular clip or effect, or the phase of the moon. Panic stations!
The very kind con organisers gave me both extra time and helpful advice, and by going back to an earlier version of the project I had saved I managed to avoid having to reconstruct my work completely from scratch. However, once I had redone more than a week's vidding and exported the final product, LlamaEnc decided that it did not wish to encode my vid, either. Cue much banging of head on desk and frantic downloading of a new .m2v encoder. And then my ftp program decided that it was not speaking to the Vividcon server and I had to get a new one of those as well.
All of which to say: thank goodness it's an Iron Man vid. If I'd been staring at something other than Robert Downey Jr. for HOURS AND HOURS AND HOURS during all of this I might have got cranky.
I have to warn you all that there is a distinct possibility that this vid is cursed. It's entirely possible that a week after you watch it, Tony Stark crawls out of your TV and ... um. OK. I can definitely see an up-side there.
The deadline was, indeed, the twenty-sixth. However, when I went to output the vid I'd been working on frantically for weeks, Premiere CS3 had decided that it would neither render nor export. After some attempts at trouble shooting, I established that it wasn't the codec I was using, a particular clip or effect, or the phase of the moon. Panic stations!
The very kind con organisers gave me both extra time and helpful advice, and by going back to an earlier version of the project I had saved I managed to avoid having to reconstruct my work completely from scratch. However, once I had redone more than a week's vidding and exported the final product, LlamaEnc decided that it did not wish to encode my vid, either. Cue much banging of head on desk and frantic downloading of a new .m2v encoder. And then my ftp program decided that it was not speaking to the Vividcon server and I had to get a new one of those as well.
All of which to say: thank goodness it's an Iron Man vid. If I'd been staring at something other than Robert Downey Jr. for HOURS AND HOURS AND HOURS during all of this I might have got cranky.
I have to warn you all that there is a distinct possibility that this vid is cursed. It's entirely possible that a week after you watch it, Tony Stark crawls out of your TV and ... um. OK. I can definitely see an up-side there.