hellpenguin

So I am getting my VVC post-show vid posts ready so I don't have to rely on the hotel's wifi to upload my vids, so I can just click "make public" (SEE? I AM LEARNING). And I have some questions:

1) Which format would you like to be able to download my vids in: WMV, AVI, MOV, MP4, other: _____
2) Would you want a high-quality d/l, low file size (compromised quality), or a link for both?
3) Would you like the d/l links to be on my LJ/DW or would you be okay if I just put them in the Ao3 entry?
4)I'll be posting streaming links to both vimeo and youtube. Which would you want me to embed in the Ao3 entry?

I'm headed to vivid con next week! I'll actually be hitting up Chicago Tuesday for 2 reasons: 1) I have some friends who live there that I only ever see one convention a year, and 2) GISHWHES.

I'm trying not to think about all the things I have to do before I'm ready to go. Like finish packing, find a bag that is the right size to be a personal item carry-on on Virgin Airlines that will fit my laptop and accoutrements in it, make sure the clothes I want to wear get washed on time, make sure I have enough moneys in my accounts to cover travel expenses, get to know my GISHWHES team, ET CETERA.

Comment if you're going to VVC WHAT WHAT!

( And now for something completely different )

Ok, this was my first speedbump along the way to proper vidding. I had a vid at Premiers at VVC my first year that had different aspect ratios per source, and therefore had border flickering and overlay issues and basically got torn to shreds in review.

And afterwards, thingswithwings cornered me and showed me how to correct aspect ratio in my Sony Vegas software.

And it was all good! Everything was better!

And then I got Adobe Premiere CS4. And everything changed.

I've been pretty great at adjusting aspect ratio thus far. But I seemed to have encountered a problem. I used anydvdhd to rip 3 blu-rays of the 4 I'm using at 1280x720, 1920x1080, and one at 720x480 (i don't know how that one happened). And the regular dvd's at 720x480 widescreen.

Ugh. I am so close to finishing this vid I can TASTE IT. But the aspect ratio! My nemesis!

And it's not like I can just re-rip the blurays...my trial period has expired. and I don't have $80 to purchase it.

What software I have:
Handbrake
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
Adobe Media Encoder CS4
DVD Decoder

Help me! Please!?

ETA: fixed it! googled way too much and figured out how to make handbrake do what I want. And then when I imported it, it was all IMMA GONNA MAKE THE PREVIEW SCREEN GREEN AND REFUSE TO PLAY and also it said the source was at 90000 fps, which, ha, no. And i just used the whole 'right-click footage -> interpret footage -> adjust frame rate' and SHEBANG. it was done.

I say this in case anyone ever googles this problem so they can find out how I overcame my frustration and save themselves at least an hour of frantic searching.

Which TV shows did you start watching in 2012?

Don't Trust the B**** in Apartment 23. I wasn't going to, but I was curious and then suddenly, I was hooked.
IT Crowd (bbc), because my friend D made me watch three episodes and then suddenly, I was hooked.
New Girl. GOD WHAT MORE CAN A GIRL ASK FOR? Jess is so stunningly like a cuter, more socially-ept me. And the characters are so incredibly 3dimensional and I ship Jess/Nick like a fiend.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I know I KNOW but I never really had seen more than the Musical episode until my friend shoved the first two seasons on me when she moved, and they kind of sat around on my shelf until one day when I was bored I started watching.
In the same scenario as the above, Get Smart. Only seen a few episodes, though.
The Nerdist. I've followed the goingson of Chris Hardwick since a long time ago. I will follow him into hell. Where we will play video games and chat about the broken ac. ANYWAY.
The Finder. WHICH I AM TRES SAD ABOUT OK. I MISS THAT SHOW WITH THE PASSION OF A THOUSAND BURNING SUNS.


Which TV shows did you let go of in 2012?

Burn Notice. I just. I just couldn't keep up.
Person of Interest. I missed an episode and never had a chance to re-watch and then suddenly there were five hundred episodes and I just stopped. One of these day I will enjoy some Clams!
Supernatural. I was lagging in episodes and then a family member deleted one and couldn't remember which one but I had gotten distracted by new shiny shows and kind of thought, "I don't need this." but then a friend on the Tumblrs was like "NO REALLY KEEP WATCHING. DO IT. YOU WILL THANK ME" so I started catching up. But I'm a few episodes behind now. Again. UH KEVIN TRAN. I HEART YOU.
NCIS. I used to love the hell out of this show. But when the new season came back, I was just never in the mood to watch, and then all the episodes were piling up on my recorder and taking up space and I just deleted my season pass.

Which TV shows did you mean to get into but didn't in 2012? Why?
Um. Elementary. I was going to give it a shot. I was eager to see what they did with it, and also to use it as a gateway show to get my mom into Sherlock fandom (she loved Johnny Lee Miller in Eli Stone). But we could never schedule time around it.
People told me about how Breaking Bad was SOOO GOOOD but again, time. I would have to buy it.
The Misfits. A coworker pressured me into getting it and I just haven't even unwrapped it yet.


Which TV show impressed you least in 2012?

Supernatural. But then I got back in.

Which TV show did you enjoy the most in 2012?

OH GOD UM THIS IS HARD. I think Once Upon A Time? or New Girl? Or Haven! AHHHH I DON'T KNOW.

I am at my wit's end.

Can someone please find me a dl link for the first season? Preferably Regina-centric episodes? I really don't want to have to shell out $30 for the whole season.

But I have a driving need to publish my Regina vid by my birthday in 3 weeks. As a birthday present to myself. Because there's no better gift than seeing something you've created, edited perfectly, saying exactly what you want it to.

My friends and I are planning a get-together tonight in which we get completely smashed and then read each other's old fanfics and giggle into oblivion.

"Oh, hey," I said, "I have a Black Books fanfic, too." (I remembered because I was talking about Black Books with a friend recently).

"WHAT?" my friend makes an 0_o face. "I don't remember seeing that on your fanfiction page! (we had talked about this once before with our old fanfiction.net profiles).

And then I realized: a lot of my old fics never got moved from my LJ to AO3. Including the Black Books fic.

So I went and uploaded it all, as well as edited a few I had already added to reflect the Collections/Challenges I had done them for.

WHERE ART THOU?!

please to be forthcoming with the linkage, homies.

As with always, it starts out serious and devolves into all caps.

( fashion is danger )

Um, well, I had planned this super-awesome vid for Premiers but I couldn't amass enough footage for the song (it's a 4 minute song; I used 2 movies worth) in time to submit it, so I did a 2-day cobbled-together Lost Girl intro vid that isn't as awesome as...well, ANY vid I've ever done.

So half of my was like, "Just don't submit anything. If you don't have anything good to show, don't show anything at all." but then the rest of me was like, "Look, vidding is a learning experience. What if people don't like it? Well, they'll let you know at the concrit about how it could have been better. If people like it, you'll be happy. It's a win-win."

So I just bit the bullet and submitted it.

So if you see my vid during premiers, and you absolutely think it sucks, PLEASE leave constructive criticism to THIS POST, this post right here. If you liked it, YAY! I tried something REALLY NEW that I've seen other people do, about a show I think everyone should watch.

After it shows, I will update this post with a streaming link and a dl link.