So, yes.

The new blogmodel with the pics on top turned out to be the flop of the century, Thias Newspeed was all wrong about the readers, I have one reader that I know of, and she thought that the journalistic Sandwich-model was way cooler than the crappy “all pics on top” model.

So just to be different I will now use the “no-pics-version”. So if you are not interested in what I’m writing you might as well stop reading now. And for whatever reason I will blog about something really not-read-kind-stuff, just to make things even more No-Picturesque. Know what I mean? Probably not.

Hello to zero readers, it’s spectacular to write a blog that now has zero readers. Haha, I sure need pics to make it interesting, but since I had to leave for Vaasa today very suddenly, I didn’t have the time to bring any pics of the last Helsinki by night day, nor any new pics of my new Memory Card! Yay! I finally bought another one. Extreme IV Compact Flash 8GB.

During the last day of taping the intro I blasted away about 16 tons of software ( C the BWO reference? ) thought so, stupid. Unfortunately I won’t be able to post any pics from the last day of shooting since the last day was all about shooting the hosts of the show, and who the hosts are is a big secret until the 25th of november. So no go. But on the 25th I’ll post a lot of cool shots from behind the rehersals of Make Up.

What else is new. Oh yes, almost forgot, and this is a long and disturbing fuck all story.

I finnished editing the shortfilm I made at the hospital, and then ofcourse comes the small major-time problem of getting the film to a simple DVD. Everyone thinks getting stuff to DVD from Avid (video editing program) is a very very simple thing, but there is no “burn to DVD” button in the software. And there is about 6 million ways to get the finished product to your desktop as a playable file, so after 3 hours of swearing I had the 9minute piece as a wmv-file on my desktop, and then the problems started raining in. Can anyone by the way arrange a course on how to make things right? This is my step-by-step (not the Take That song) journal to epic fail.

1. Tried burning the file to DVD with the  fucked up DVD program called Cyberlink DVD solution. Did not work, the movie worked but some of the pics moved very slow. (Bilden hacka)  Had to try another way.

2. Tried exporting the film from avid with different measures and sizes and even some different bitrates, hours went by and I finally had a version that was ready and working. Tried burning it again with Cyberlink, did not work. Cyberlink told me that “there aren’t any whatever points in this media” or some shit… I went mad. Then I had a small breakthrough. Yes.

3. Googled around for another DVD burning program and I found this thing called DVD-flick (http://www.dvdflick.net/), it’s free and it works! Awesome software, it really has it all, at least for a dude who is used to Cyberlink’s fucked up program. So I burned the film to DVD with the new software and threw it in the DVD-player, and guess fucking what, it had the wrong aspect ratio, it was 4:3 when I wanted it to be 16:9. I went even more mad. So mad that my friend Mad Mike went Easy-going.

4. Hours and hours went by. Got the file exported again from AVID, and this time as FULL HD widescreen 16:9, finally. The file was working fine and I tried burning it, and after these hours of the system testing me I thought that I would finally have a break, but nooo, fuck no. Threw the godforsken thing in the dvd player and whaddayouknow, the sound wasn’t entirely in sync! The fucking sound. And this time I was too pissed off and the clock had turned almost 4 a.m in the morning, so I settled with this version. I cried myself to sleep.

5. Tonight I showed the movie to the guys involved and I really felt like shit, after all this work and I couldn’t get it fucking right. But then I suddenly understood why this happens – cause shit fucking happens, but really, now I know what the problem is.

6. My camera films with 29,97FPS (the american way), and when I try to watch that in a european TV which displays things in 25FPS (frames per second) I’m in alot of trouble, well not alot, but some troubles indeed. Should have understood this earlier and tried to convert the material to 25FPS from the original 29,97, but I don’t know how to complete that so fuck all. And and and, the files and the film is working allright when you watch it in a computer screen, since that one shows you things in something between 30-60FPS, to my knowledge.. Don’t correct me if I’m wrong.

So, horror all over. But at least I learned alot of new stuff. And although I’ve put hundreds of things to DVD earlier in life, the problems are always fucking different, why isin’t there a simple button or explanation on how to make thing right, like there are with women?  If anyone have some bright ideas to solving problems like these, give me a ring. And the really good thing is that Canon is releasing new firmware for my 5D Mark Tage in the beginning of 2010, making it possible to film stuff in 24FPS and 25FPS, so then all my problems will be solved, or at least this problem, but then there are 5.999.999 problems left.

But hey, I’ve got 99 problems but the bitch ain’t one. Peace out fuckers.

//Tage-Z

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