Date: 2008-06-24 12:34 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public Tags: augh augh augh, doctor who, i like music, vids

You know, I don't believe I've made a vid yet that didn't suffer from horrendous technical difficulties--although A Day in the Life really only suffered an inability to find the bits I wanted amidst all the inexplicably ten-minute-long clips WMM had handily cut the episodes into--but this, oh, this takes the cake. This is not something I can blame on a faulty computer. This is just really, really, completely unexplainable. So let me elaborate!

As I've mentioned, the song I wanted to use was an m4a file which turned out not to work in Windows Movie Maker; this made me sad and upset, but shizuka_blooms gave me a link to a website that converts media files and thus allowed me to make it an mp3 file instead; this made me happy and not-upset. So I started making the vid! And it was going very well. Except I noticed a bit of lag time with the audio--if I started it from the top, there wasn't a problem; if I started it even a second later, it would inexplicably be a little behind where it was supposed to be. For example, if at twenty seconds in, there was supposed to be the lyric "it's time to shine", it would for some reason be playing a lyric that came a few seconds before that. (This is purely an example. I am far from twenty seconds into this vid. I haven't even gotten to the lyrics yet--still on the opening instrumentals, which still suffer the same problem.) This was very annoying.

So I restarted, because, hey, restarting cures many things. Nope. Still there. Take out the song and put it back in again? Nope. I checked another vid file--that one was working fine. Restarted again. Nope. Closed down all other programs. Nope. Hey, that K-Lite Codec thing really has an insane amount of icons on my toolbar--uninstall that? Nope, and now even starting at the top doesn't work, so reinstall. Hrm. Ooh, there's a new Windows Update! Will that fix it? That will probably fix it. Installed. Did not fix it. Made things worse, actually; for some reason, everything was reeeeally slow when it finished updating, and the tablet function of the laptop was barely working, and then it just sort of froze, so I did a forced restart. Everything seemed to be back to normal after that--except, no, for some reasons all my Collections folders in WMM have been completely wiped, so I'm going to have to reupload...let's see...52 episodes of Doctor Who, plus 34 of Heroes and 16 of Life on Mars...and every episode takes anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes to upload, so, uh, at this point this whole thing is getting kind of ridiculous. WHAT IS GOING ON. And, no, it still doesn't work. Tried putting the song in the other vid file--same problem. SO.

1) shizuka_blooms, have you ever had any problems with a song converted by that website?
2) Has anyone here ever had similiar problems with Windows Movie Maker?
3) Will anyone buy me some ridiculously expensive new movie-making software?
4) Have I offended God in some way? Does He have some fundamental objection to the song, or perhaps vids in general?
5) Is there some physical representation of Windows Update that I can punch in the face?

EDIT: FIXED YAY

Date: 2008-05-13 20:49 Subject: the bit with the necklace: you can't deny it, that was pretty fucking well-done Security: Public Tags: augh augh augh, episode ramblings, house

So, uh, House!

...hurry up and be next week.

I DON'T WANT TO BE TRAUMATIZED

(I also don't want to be confronted with ships I don't ship, but I probably can't avoid it at this point.)

Date: 2008-05-13 16:33 Subject: they don't even use the lyrics of the song. what, do they think we don't know who david bowie is? Security: Public Tags: augh augh augh, doctor who, i like actors, i like television, life on mars, terrible us life on mars is terrible

Oh god, they've released the trailer for the US version of Life on Mars.

...he's too muscular.

And he doesn't wear the hair nearly as well.

And Colm Meany, I'm sorry, you're trying very hard, but you're no Phillip Glenister.

And the voiceover and the background music just make me wince.

....and is Annie blond?

*sighs and goes back to Doctor Who, which has already gotten over its thankfully brief bit of Americanization and will never suffer from it again*

Date: 2007-12-03 19:45 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public Tags: augh augh augh, heroes, no no no no no no no, omg petrellis

AUGH

OKAY, I AM NOT READING EPISODE POSTS YET, BECAUSE I HAVE NOT SEEN THE EPISODE YET

BUT THE TITLES AND CUT TAGS AND, ER, OTHER THINGS, THEY ARE MAKING ME VERY NERVOUS

oh god