#RIP VID QUALITY BTW

[vaggieslefteye]

HELL'S GREATEST DAD ↳ from Hazbin Hotel Season One (2024): 1x05 - "Dad Beat Dad"

[namespara]

Some of my favourite Jean Vic reactions to Cuno because i dont see them as often

[branzinos]

btw this is a list of all the stuff from Lisa's filmography I have ripped copies of, with the intent to gif the majority of it eventually (with some exceptions). but if anyone has leads on anything I don't have / have listed as only having in shit quality / wants access to any of the files / wants to trade vids lmk (having something to trade isn't necessary though!! I'm happy to share). between @littlebitgarbage and I we've managed to thin the list down considerably but there's still some major loose ends like breaking news and all but the pilot of wildest dreams that are super elusive and I fear may only exist as vhs tapes in lisa's garage like the missing episodes of life's work, lol

[tonydaddingham]

hey….totally unprompted question not prompted by terrible visions but do you have any tips for making amvs / any suggestions for editing softwares (preferabky on mobile but computer can work too) ? 😁

oh babe ive GOTCHU okay so obligatory "im just a girl that can't escape the brainrot" disclaimer. im not an expert, i do not do this professionally in any capacity, and im sure more seasoned video makers and editors will look at this list and think it's horseshit - and they'd be right!!! but for what it's worth here are the things that help me:

okay so first off, i edit everything (inc music, bc i do Not have the capacity to make edits to a full 4 min song) on my phone, so you've come to the right place - this nifty little app here is what i use.

is it good? as long as you're happy with it not being overly flash, yeah sure. does it get the job done? well id like to think so, as long as you're willing to get a bit creative/think outside the box on occasion. is it free? fuck yeah, as long as you don't want the spanglier functions.

okay so as for creating the vids themselves (very good omens centric, btw):

(here is where i wrote loads of shite but i remembered that you, dear anon, would have to read this and probably just want a simple list but always happy to discuss in more detail just lmk)

(edit: turns out, anon, that i still couldn't keep it to a simple list!!! and for that im very sorry)

obligatory start with: get good quality rips of the show. i didn't do this in the beginning and a lot of my old stuff is uploaded in 720p as a result, whereas now i can upload... decently in 2180p. the longer upload time is worth it. oh, and there is a small aspect ratio difference between s1 and s2, and it's the bane of my fucking life especially when i miss it and it's So Obvious To Me that ive missed it post-upload. don't make my mistakes 💕

right. advice. first, storyboard your vid. even if the song is not particularly relevant to the show/story but has Blorbo Potential™. look at the song you've got, and break it down lyrically (if applicable). what are the words saying? what is the story being told? is it thematically relevant/meta (e.g., RUTH), or is it just so applicable to Them that it's a bit embarrassing (e.g., meatloaf)? or is it neither, and it's just a Vibe (e.g., sushi restaurant)? there have been times where ive had to write out the lyrics physically and make notes on what scenes/bits to put to certain lyrics, in order to not feel overwhelmed with the whole thing... even if i change it later on/it ends up not working out anyway. but yeah take a sec to actually look at your song and work out if you have enough material to tell the story you want to tell in it - ie. not just the chorus/a bit of a verse. (ive fallen into this trap Many a time and have a Lot of abandoned wips floating around as a result)

related to the above, and i can't imagine it will be a problem lol, but being Very Familiar with the source material helps. pay attention to blocking and angles, especially if you want to do a cool/slick transition, or want to group together similar shots for a bit of visual interest and satisfying brain itching (e.g., 00:31 onwards of best shot). keep a track of filler bits, like clicks/hand claps/funny faces/dancing/dramatic head turns, because not only is it sometimes helpful for when you've got a musical interlude, but it can help maintain the tempo. (e.g., beginning of darkness)

ALSO related to the first point, and just a general tip - you don't have to start from the beginning. start, for example, with That Emotional Part where you can Perfectly see a part of the show cut to it. (e.g., cut to the feeling, where i started with the 1941 bullet catch at 1:18-1:27 for the bridge, and then built on it backwards). it helps with motivation too, when you find The Good Bit that you knows others will hate you for 🥰

in general, i recommend to keep the big set pieces (bullet catch, kiss, wall slam, in the beginning, on the wall, bookshop fire) in your back pocket for the Big Emotional, Heart-Swelling points of the song, and build on them from there. if you can, exercise symmetry in your scene choices across the choruses (e.g. dog days), or bookend the vid with the same scene (e.g., bon jovi intro and 1:45); i find it keeps a Theme going and drives up the emotional payoff, and again helps with storyboarding (dog days example: i framed as flashbacks, bon jovi example: i framed it as a flashforward)

i know others do this, and it is Not me criticising it at All because it can be soooo effective, but my personal style tries to avoid mouth movements as much as possible (unless it matches the lyrics, and then i keep it in because it's funny - e.g., "yeah" at 0:39 for bon jovi). so to that end, if you're looking to do the same thing/same style, be mindful of when expressions change/mouths start to move - it can literally be a matter of 0.1s, but be jarring if left in. this does regrettably mean losing a lot of source material (bc. yk. they talk in it, not just make Faces at each other), but i personally try to keep it to a minimum or try to keep any mouth movements out of focus.

now. i love a short cut. i go mad for a short cut. i go berserk for fast, sharp scene changes, they're like crack to me. prefer them to using huge stretches of clips. but!!! when actually editing (especially with the above app that whilst great, is not very good on refresh rate/buffering), id recommend exporting your video periodically or after doing a particularly choppy/fast bit, and Checking if it works/it's in time with the music. rewatch it 5, 10 times to make sure. you will constantly have to adjust stuff if you're creating the vid out of sync, unfortunately, but it will honestly help so much. it'll just give you a "ah yes i have 10 fast cuts there, and sure it only makes up for around 5 secs of actual screen time, but it's perfectly in sync and very satisfying, good job me" feeling, which is awesome. if you have issues with timing, consider downloading an overlaying metronome track in the bpm you need, and match it to that. (that saved in me in more of my vids than i care to count)

that being said, don't use short cuts if it doesn't suit the song!!!💕 or at least try to use a mix of them to give the vid some pacing. i like a pop or rock song, me, so i naturally tend to go for higher bpm songs (rip) anyway, but i try to get some longer cuts in there (especially around the intro/bridge) to give the viewer some breathing room (e.g., 0.00-0.44 for hero)

biggest advice tho: just have fun with it. create what You want to watch. do you listen to a song and think GOD THAT SCENE WOULD BE SO GOOD HERE??? then DO IT!!!💕 it doesn't have to slick or flash or overly clever in the transitions or effects, if you don't necessarily want it to be. don't get me wrong, they can look bloody spectacular - some of my favourite vids are really polished and impressive!!! but some of my faves are technically really basic, but they Understand the material and they Understand storytelling. equally some very kind people have told me that mine are some of their favourites (still makes me grin, months later!!!) and my transitions/effects are rudimentary at best. people will see your Vision because it is a Great Vision and will love your work regardless of the quality. you will improve with time, you will recycle bits and use them in new ways, you will learn skills and shortcuts that you will do better the next time. please pls plssss just create and have fun with it, god knows we need it in the world rn 💖

if there's anything else that i can answer or help with, anon, pls let me know!!! good luck my darling!!!💕

[oblivionbladetd]

Lily Orchard's writing tips, a brief epilogue.

That took so much more out of me than I thought it would. Like I've watched Videos on the list and managed to get good quality screenshots from one, specifically the Diregentlemen's Two Professional Writers react to her thread. Great video btw look it up. But anyway just giving that god awful list a fair shake with my own critical chops is just... Ugh... So much of it isn't even writing advice, it's just a few takes that didn't end up in a Glass of Water and A LOT THAT DID.

I used to be a fan of hers, I didn't want her list to be this fuckin bad. I've seen all of her glass of water vids I've seen her Korra and Steven ar trash and here's why. I didn't make this because I wanted to sit here twirling my dastardly mustache until it catches flame from the friction, I made as a reminder to myself and to warn others. Lily Orchard is not a good critic, she's not a great writer. From a list I think I might have inspired she can't even follow her own advice.

Having watched here latest Steven video, you could use the same absolutionist logic on most of her works and drudge the horridness straight to the surface. As an easy example the poke-madhouses mating bond concept and even Bonnie. There was no consent either time, but fuck it G just knows what's best for her and lily and nobody will ever be upset with that implication... But both that and her Steven is the worst video are cans of worms I don't particularly want to rip open right now, leaving the Steven Universe defense at none of the diamonds knew better, just like 90% of the gems they made. Probably recontextualizes that video a bit.

I'll admit now that I am a bit embarrassed with how clear it was that I lost my patience near the end of the list, but will leave it be as it is my truest felling on the matter. I do sincerely believe what I said In the beginning, sifting through her content for meaningful takeaways is filtering a sewage outflow pipe for clean drinking water. Believe me it is perfectly possible, but the effort it takes is better spent looking for cleaner water. The way she structures her everything is so absolutist it make her good takes only decent because they heavily miss the qualifiers needed, and the bad takes are said in such an unwavering confidence it comes off as just outright stupid. The dire gentlemen said that only 15 tips were good advice, but I'd argue that you could pair it down further as only like 5 are just that good right out of the box no extra thought needed. That's 5% basically golden rules, 10% things you'd really need to think on though are otherwise good and 85% padding, ranting, or just straight up bad advice.

In summary, Lily Orchard is a hack critic, a hack writer, and honestly a terrible person if you've seen anything about Lily she can't carefully curate. If you're gonna trudge through the sludge bring a good pair of waders, because to get her nuggets of gold you'll have be up to your tits in bad takes.

[kumoriyami-xiuzhen]

Hakuoki Reimeiroku Saito Final Chapter

have i ever mentioned how i’m a masochist when it comes to this stuff? like, i will freely admit how i actually don’t like translating and doing more unnecessary work, but I when I do something for myself, I tend to want a certain degree of quality.... which is why i decided i’d do some video editing for this... a decision that I really regret now though i can say that it’s something that i know hate more than photoshop lol. 

after i finished my yuugiroku 2 vid, i figured i might as well try to install Visual Novel Reader to see if that could offer me better visual and audio quality for this... but before I finished installing it, I went and checked what videos were available that I could use for assets and found a video made through vnr had about the same audio quality as to ppsspp... along with videos from someone other psp emulated version of this... which i then clipped for audio. 

between visual and audio quality... i’ll pick audio any day so after deciding that i’d be using some of the less grainy audio i found along with my ppsspp footage... i set to work trying to layer the tracks.... but since the audio didn’t match the visuals’ timing, I had to manually cut pieces of my screencap video up so that it matched the audio timing, while also making sure that the visuals looked like they were still continuous (damn  circle icon which wouldn’t go away and caused problems)... on top of which, i had to deal with removing a number of random black screens that would just flash on screen for less than a second when i ran reimeiroku through the ppsspp emulator.... then i also had to find the song that plays towards the ending of this cuz the audio i had cut before the end of my screencap vid which was also a pain because i couldn’t find the damn thing anywhere on youtube so i had to go find the game rip audio (thankfully i have a site for that. also in the game, that song doesn’t naturally fade out and i manually added in that effect cuz i felt like it and thought it was better than the audio just cutting off) so i could put that in and align it so that track matched the audio timing for the vita audio track.... and then i also had to do something about the interval where i had to increase and decrease volume since the end kept sounding off no matter what i did....tho i kinda think the video still sounds off in 2 places.

once i got all the damn visuals and text properly lined up, i gave up on having to deal with the the stupid circle icon in that was originally in the bottom right hand corner since i got pissed enough seeing it and cuz it was no longer continuously in motion so I decided to remove it entirely along with the auto-play icon (at this point im on about version 10 of the video).

then, to cover up the right side of the video, i figured that’d i’d just stuck up an image over top of that section.... but after several tries i gave up on that since every damn picture i imported regardless if that was a screenshot of the game or a screen capture of the video from the editing software itself, nothing would match the colour of the text box for some infuriating reason... which ultimately led to me redoing everything so i didn’t have the stupid text box then stringing together clips between those stupid bouncing icons to erase the damn thing entirely though i thankfully didn’t worry about the auto-play icon the second time around....

however, doing that in itself posed a whole new problem since what i could effectively clip was less than >0.5 seconds each time to create cropped video layers that would hide that stupid icon, and my comp reaaaaaallllly started to issues when i did more of this and when i copied and pasted too many of those millisecond clips together... it got to the point where i was waiting 15 minutes for about 4 seconds of copied hide-the-damn-icon-video-clips (or about 8 hours for 40 seconds worth)... which pretty much crippled my computer..... 

this resulted in me having insane amounts of segments that looked entirely like this^, which occurred whenever there was an icon to hide... or text shake for some reason.... which caused me to create +20 openshot files for editing...(btw this is 138 tiny clips over the span of 6 seconds)

in the end, over the course of a fucking month, which i can honestly say that me finishing this for today was a complete coincidence (i barely managed to finish Warframe’s Scarlet Spear event cuz of how bad this was lol), i lost count of many versions of this video I made sometime after I reached version #32, openshot crashed on me at least 15 times (gave up counting that too), and my laptop crashed twice.... 

after i finally finished my video, i thankfully didn’t spend that long on subtitles but it took me far longer than i’d have liked to get the damn positioning right since potplayer is annoying when it comes to single lines and i had to guess and check the positioning almost every other time for some strange reason whenever i had a single line... which was never a problem when i had 2 or 3 lines of text... but editing was a slight hassle cuz i wanted the text used to be as accurate as possible... and i checked 3 reimeiroku tls of this chapter and the JP mtl of a bunch of sentences just to be sure. 

anyway, thanks to doing all of this unnecessary torture, i am absolutely never going to ever be repeating this experience ever again even if someone pays me because video editing is a serous pain in the ass and I hate it more than photoshop (also why the hell does ppsspp have so many issues with reimeiroku when compared to yuugiroku 2)!!!

also, learned my lesson and didn’t write this post this after staying awake til an ungodly hour lol. my attention to basic grammar plummets like a rock if i stay up past 4 am.... so i decided to write out all my grievances beforehand.... and put my video for this at the very bottom cuz im terrible like that and want everyone who sees this to deal with a massive wall of text xD! suffer! suffer as i have dammit lol!

enjoy the fruits of my damn labour! i’ve passed the point of caring if there are errors in this so keep anything you notice to yourself!! goddammit i noticed something wrong that i couldn’t ignore... namely the chapter name and my credit.... fixed that now.

on a final note, it’ll probably be more than a year before I touch Reimeiroku again because of my commitment to what I am able to translate for SSL so don’t ask lol.... 

[attract-mode-collective]

Yup, It’s A Drum Machine That’s Controlled With The NES Zapper Alright

The above is Russell Kramer’s entry for the 2017 Moog Circuit Bending Challenge. His goal was to create a drum machine that didn’t rely upon dials as an interface but instead produced dots that he could interact with the Nintendo Entertainment System’s light gun. Or something like that.

To be completely honest, I have no idea how it all works, despite the video above being a rather thorough how-to. It’s mostly for people like my pal Mark Kleeb, since he’s a circuit bender by trade, and is also how I came to know about the video in the first place. Yet that doesn’t mean I still can’t appreciate a such thing, right?

Anyhow, and long story short, I’ve got a ton on my plate at the moment, which means I simply don’t have the time to put towards a proper game culture recap this week. Sorry! Though instead nothing, I figured a quick and dirty post of just videos couldn’t hurt, especially since some are a bit on the longer side.

Also, given how I wonder if anyone actually checks out everything I pass along, maybe the chances of everything getting the attention it deserves is increased in this case? Plus, there’s a bit of a theme that connect everything! So moving on is something I first spotted over at Prosthetic Knowledge, of a C64 demo that’s both a technical marvel and simply f’n fantastic…

Next is an oldie but goodie, and also yet another example of Nintendo hardware being turned into a music instrument. Surely you all know about Ugoita’s 8bit Harmonica, right? If not, well, here ya go…

Now is perhaps a good a time as any to bring up Publio Delgado’s invention of sorts, the Harmonizator. You’ll find plenty of examples on his YouTube page, though my personal fave would have to be his take on this guy fighting zombies via the HTC Vive…

Remember my review of that Phillips CD-i infomercial? Something I wanted to bring up yet couldn’t figure a proper way to do so is the soundtrack to the CD-i version of Tetris. As MaxOfS2D notes…

“It's very soothing (some would call it "vaporwave", especially after seeing the game's title screen) and almost straight out of 80s corporate training videos. It's really good New Age music.”

… BTW, MaxOfS2D has also ripped and uploaded the soundtrack in high quality 224kbps AAC files, for anyone interested.

And speaking of vaporwave, time for one last vid (mostly due to Tumblr’s six embed limit); been a while since I posted something by Zedra Psyborg, right? Since last July to be exact. Anyway, please enjoy this near two hour-long Persona Vaporwave mix…