Category: Life

I just called my job up.

Starting tomorrow, 9AM, I’ll be painting/sanding/fixing up for the company.

Thank god this movie is over now. Had this project taken any longer, it would have been delayed by weeks due to a sheer lack of time.

Good News: The rendering is done. Complete.

Bad News: 800MB for a 320×240 WMV file? WTF!

The Plan: Upload this WMV for now, but am working on making a ~700MB XViD.

I finished making the putting the final render at 4AM this morning, and I started the acual rendeing process.

Well, its now 10AM, and I’ve just woken up. The rendeing process is still not done. Depending how you read it, its either 78% done, or 39% done. Here’s hoping for the former.

I’m actually writting you this post from my PDA, given how paranoid I am of the coputer freezing up on me for having launched Firefox.

Okay, so as it turns out: Premiere really doesn’t like dealing with 150+ mpeg files. Its a sad, sad, sight.

So that means that the movie has to be cut up into three 30 minute segments, rendered, stiched up, and rendered again. I’m currently rendering the first segment. It looks like its going to take 3 hours.

Do that times three. And add that final render on top of that. This is going to take a while. Oh, and if there’s a mistake… I have to start from scratch again. >< Stay tuned over the next 24 hours for the semi-official release. Update: 2 hours into the rendering, Premiere crashed for no apparent reason. That's 2 hours down the drain.

The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) has just sent word that the rating assigned to Bethesda’s and 2K Games’ The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has been changed from T (Teen 13+) to M (Mature 17+). “The content causing the ESRB to change the rating involves more detailed depictions of blood and gore than were considered in the original rating, as well as the presence of a locked-out art file or ‘skin’ that, if accessed through a third party modification to the PC version of the game, allows the user to play with topless versions of female characters,” said the ESRB in a release.

Christ, this is stupid. By their standards, all games will be rated “M” as there will always be a lone geek out there to make a nude patch for any game featuring the female gender. Does that mean we should give “The Sims” a rating of M? Or  how about “Rollercoaster Tycoon”?

Ridiculous.