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Did you know that, for some reason, video from Second Life must be taken in uncompressed 8-bit in order to preserve quality? Do you know how big uncompressed footage is? About a GB a minute. Sometimes more. Did you know that converting live footage into 8-bit changes the aspect ratio to 640x480? Which is not the same aspect ratio as footage from Second Life. That means, despite the fact that we originally converted ALL of our live footage into 8-bit in order to avoid rendering, we had to render all of the SL footage anyway. Do you know how long it takes to render almost 110 GB of footage? Forever. Do you know how long it takes to transfer that much from hard drive to hard drive? Forever. Especially if one hard drive only has a USB port. My estimate of our total footage, spread across 3 hard drives: 200+GB. Did you know that the editing in our SL project took us 11+ hours of straight editing? Yes, with no breaks in between, as well as a few more hours editing other pieces. Not including getting all of that footage into 8-bit or exporting at the end of the project. Just to put our project into perspective. :-) I think none of us ever want to see SL or Final Cut again.
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Edit: 10am to 11:30pm is 13+ hours of editing, not 11. My brain is still so dead I can't even remember how many hours are in a day. Sad.
1 comment:
haha a beautiful tirade... of course, we could've spread out the editting...(that was sort of a last minute fiasco on our part) But then again we had to learn all about SL, since it was completely new to us. Anywho, what's done is done. Let's celebrate our release from the bondage of our Second Lives! Paprika Snook R.I.P! God knows when we shall meet again...
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