{"id":310,"date":"2019-01-31T11:06:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T11:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/?p=310"},"modified":"2019-01-31T11:06:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T11:06:48","slug":"i-really-thought-i-was-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/01\/31\/i-really-thought-i-was-done\/","title":{"rendered":"I Really Thought I Was Done!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nope.\u00a0 I previously reported I was just about finished<\/a> with the Treasure Hunt movie.\u00a0 Well, the universe is not done f-ing around with me yet.\u00a0 After getting all the chunks rendered in high quality (which takes much<\/strong><\/em> longer than before) I assembled them together, along with the audio, and now the lengths no longer match!<\/p>\n

It’s possible I messed something up when I was ‘chunking’ things, I didn’t look closely as I was really upset when I discovered this, but I did very quickly try to sync things at the very end of the flick and wasn’t seeing things line up there.<\/p>\n

So, clearly, the open source<\/a> Linux-based<\/a> software I’m using (Kdenlive<\/a>) is not ready for prime time.\u00a0 In order to get the high quality renders, I had to get the latest ‘appimage<\/a>‘ version, but that version couldn’t reread it’s own files after upgrading from the version I had used for all the editing.\u00a0 Fortunately, the file is in (mostly) human-readable XML format, so I edited it so the stupid thing could read it correctly (imagine if I weren’t a professional programmer).<\/p>\n

The core of the problem seems to be my initial decision to cut the library scene as an independent project. Since there’s no option to copy\/paste (at least there wasn’t in the old version, I should try in the new version (multiple versions because all the various Linux distros<\/a> update things asynchronously; yes, there can be an, at times very heavy, price to use Linux)), I was thinking I was going to have to reedit those scenes.\u00a0 However, I found out I could include another project as a subproject.\u00a0 The wrinkle?\u00a0 The renders weren’t high quality for those subprojects for some reason (though I thought of something this morning I’ll try this afternoon).\u00a0 If the copy\/paste doesn’t magically start working, I don’t know how else to get things to come together.<\/p>\n

Professionally, I used to ‘straddle the fence’ between Windows and the various flavors of UNIX<\/a>, but when Microsoft decided to go to Vista from XP and renamed\/moved so many of the administration applications, I decided, if I’m going to (re)learn a new operating system, it might as well be a free one.\u00a0 Since then, I’ve only become more and more allergic to Windows.\u00a0 Sadly, the most popular editing packages are all Windows-based, so I pretty much cut off my nose to spite my face before I even got started.\u00a0 That being said, I never wanted to do editing, but was persuaded<\/a> doing at least my first feature would be an invaluable learning experience.<\/p>\n

The problem with bringing in someone else is they’d almost certainly be using some Windows-based software that’s totally incompatible with the software I’ve been using, which would most likely mean they’d start the edit all over again.\u00a0 Not only can I not afford this financially (likely to be thousands of dollars for someone experienced), it’s likely to take several more months, and I want to put this puppy to bed.<\/p>\n

Well, maybe I’ll get lucky and one of the ideas I came up with since I had to walk away last night will work.\u00a0 I’ve managed to overcome all the editing obstacles up to this point…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nope.\u00a0 I previously reported I was just about finished with the Treasure Hunt movie.\u00a0 Well, the universe is not done f-ing around with me yet.\u00a0 After getting all the chunks rendered in high quality (which takes much longer than before) I assembled them together, along with the audio, and now the lengths no longer match! … Continue reading “I Really Thought I Was Done!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-treasure-hunt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}