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Nobody reads a README file
Remember that video project? That kept crashing?
We finally finished it today. And we made a readme file to go on the CD, just to explain how much effort went into it, because we're nerds.

Here is the contents, so you can ALMOST, ALMOST feel all the pain we went through.

Quote:
This video file was made by <names> in the course of roughly seven days and 30 hours.
It took about fifteen hours to watch the footage and determine what scenes we wanted to use, and then about five hours to rip(get) the DVDs to my computer, encode(make) the files into a format that WMM(Windows Movie Maker) could read, burn them on a CD, and bring them to school.

Then, it total, it took ten hours to edit using Windows Movie Maker on Pope Highschool's labtops.
In the course of five days, we completed the video and lost it four times. The first time, we were able to export(save) the video onto the computer, but ran out of class time to burn it to a disc, so simply left the file on the computer. The next day, the wmv file was deleted, and the WMM project file(storyboard and such) was corrupted(couldn't open it).
Thus, we started over from scratch on a desktop computer, using Windows Movie Maker 1, and getting halfway through. The H(student) drive was unaccessible at this point(the server was down) so we saved it to the "My Videos" folder. The next day, the file was deleted again.

Starting fresh once more back on a laptop, we were able to completely finish the video file on Wednesday, three days after the official deadline, by skipping all classes after second period to work on it. When we exported(saved) the movie, the file was corrupted(we couldn't open it). Trying to save it multiple times with no success, we decided to save the project file to a disc and bring the project to <my> house to edit and export instead.

On the trip home, the computer did not have Windows Movie Maker 2, and so we had to install it on <my> computer(which took several hours). Once there, we imported the project and found that half the files(the titles you see inbetween scenes) would not load, and could not be replaced. We did these one more time from scratch, which somehow made the movie longer(we don't know why).

Finally, we exported the video file one more time, and it worked! However, three of the last titles did not show up for some innane reason. We imported(put in) the video into WMM again and re-added the titles, and re-exported the video to what you see now.

If we don't get a 100 on the project, we will be pissed.

WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER SUCKS!

/end


PS: We forgot to put what song we used for the credits because we redid the project so many times.
The song is Muse's "Bliss" from the Origin Of Symmetry Album.


What the readme doesn't tell you:

In the course of making the video, WMM2 froze and had to be forcefully shut down about 20 times.
I didn't have SP2 so had to install it.
I didn't have a validated Windows, so I had to pirate WMM2.
WMM2 froze about 5 times when trying to export the video from the school computers.
And About 18 of the 20 hours watching footage was useless(we never used the TV series "Roots" wink .

I also didn't expound on the ripping and encoding process, which was me going from SmartRipper -> VDubMod -> BeSweet -> VDubMod again -> Premiere
for every scene, and although I put filters along on each step, WMV format made it look like total a**.

And we misspelled "Despair" in the final encode. Instead, it's "Dispair". It's hard to pick out, though, and by the time we actually got the damned movie to save, we didn't care.

The end of this horrible project and WMM and Microsoft's Tyranny is over. I can't wait to uninstall SP2.






User Comments: [2]
Dyne Valentine
Community Member





Thu Nov 03, 2005 @ 12:38am


I can't help I cannot spell to save my life gonk


Also when I was working on it after we pirated WMM2 it crashed on me at least 10 times and what having to re-do and save the project when we thought we finished it really was a low blow from WMM2, me not knowing how to spell and the disappearing of some titles in the movie.

If we don't get a 100 on this I will be personally pissed off at our teacher for the rest of the year.

Oh yes, I'm amazed you didn't tell everyone my blond moment at school gonk xp


Tel Janin
Community Member





Thu Nov 03, 2005 @ 12:44am


Wow. Makes me feel better about only losing three hours of work on a presentation.


User Comments: [2]
 
 
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