05 Jun 2006
Consider it under trial. I downloaded it not-from-an-official source because I haven’t got a Windows machine hooked up to this thing and can’t install anything by ActiveSync, so I needed an unofficial package (that, in this case, just happened to be cracked because that file looked like the right approx size on various peer-to-peer nets). If I’m not over it after 30 days I’ll fork out $15 or whatever it is from AstraWare. Which I probably won’t be (nor, I imagine, will various other users of this thing allow me to!)
05 Jun 2006
ΜΥΘΟΣ (μυθος), n. A sequence of words with a particular meaning, a discourse, a story.
Usage: “Any pretense made at study was an object of myth: dubiously historical, heavily distorted by discourse, and of little persistent value.”
04 Jun 2006
Everything transcoded okay, Cinelerra even opened the file, I assumed OSS just couldn’t get a lock on the device because of another sound server, so I edited blind from timings in other playback. It even rendered fine. (Not, of course, in a format everything could read).
Then I realised that there was, in fact, no sound in (what must be) the three-millionth transcoded file and so it defeated me, at last. I was so excited for five minutes there that I’d be able to quickly do things the way I was planning on doing them from the start, but it wasn’t to be. So now someone will have to cue a file manually for playback… but at least it won’t be off a DVD that’ll inevitably take an embarrasingly-long period of time to spin-up.
Time to re-read Philippians 2:14-17 and shut up, I think.
14Do everything without complaining or arguing, 15so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe 16as you hold out the word of life—in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor for nothing. 17But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.
Praying for patience, energy.
03 Jun 2006
There’s something wonderful about a platform where everything seems moronically simple and there are no codecs to worry about, files that can’t be read, and processes that might-just-not-complete and eat your entire day. This isn’t more rampant consumerism… I’d trade in a rather-well-specced XP MCE box for a decent Mac soooo quickly right now. *launches something heavy at computers which will cause failure of exams*
03 Jun 2006
VLC is the world’s most awesome transcoding tool, just for the record, but I can’t but help think there have got to be easier ways to transcode. Things like saved presets/preferences would just make the whole process so much faster. And seeing as there are so many options there already, would it be that hard to add in/out point options to the dialog? That way I could transcode without having to then edit + re-encode. Grr.
And I still can’t afford to build an editing PC so I’m stuck with my open-source craziness for a while yet. Progress is being made on a non-PC hardware front, but that doesn’t really help the editing side of things… which, of late, I seem to be spending more time on without really having a clue what I’m doing. Best way to learn…