Snapshot, approaching Memorial Day
May. 26th, 2011 07:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bironicThey Want More is going to show at WisCon this weekend. This will be its third screening, after Escapade and VidUKon. I don't know why it took me until yesterday to realize this, but hey: I made something popular! Cool! One day I may even be in the same room where it is shown.
Also, my Secret Garden vid is going to run in a Vividcon themed show,* which is super-awesome, a) because it's Vividcon and b) because it's not They Want More. No offense to dinosaurs and Elton John, but this one has languished in its shadow.
*This is assuming I can get the %^$*! encoding to work. LlamaEnc, Vividcon's special one-button MPEG (a.k.a. con DVD) encoding assistant, doesn't work on 64-bit computers (a.k.a. those running Windows 7) like the one I now use for vidding, and Adobe Premiere has approximately five thousand export options for MPEG/DVD, none of which appear to produce a correct vid. This may end up involving two computers.
Four times invited, four times I've gotten a little thrill in my chest and done a happy dance in my chair. There isn't much equivalent for fic; people don't generally ask to read your fic at a con or anything. For that, the thrill I get is when an insightful comment comes in. And since I'm a writer through and through for life, it... means more to me. We'll see how the fannish experience progresses.
Next goal is to have a vid accepted that I have submitted to a con for the occasion. *eyes SGA vid that is finally in progress again* *eyes WisCon vids with something to say themed vidshow I just found out about that is focused on social justice and science fiction that that vid would have been perfect for had the deadline not been a month ago* *still going to try to submit Soccer Practice for Club Vivid*
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Am still valiantly attempting to produce an essay on consent play for the![[community profile]](https://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
kink_bingo ramp-up to the next round. The trouble is, there is way too much to say about consent play for a single essay, and I haven't settled yet on an angle pulled from my 1,500-word outline/brain dump. Maybe there will be two angles. "Types of consent play you can think about for your story" and "Great tastes that taste great together" (a.k.a. most kinks + consent play = even better), maybe? But then that leaves out "Why consent play works for some people," which is a common question. Arg. Input welcome.
ETA: Maybe answering the "why" could involve ticking through the different kinds of consent/play, thereby taking care of angle one. With fic and occasionally film or TV examples.
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Um, but also I have real life errands and such to accomplish, so really I shouldn't be writing this or thinking about a fannish essay so much as I should be focused on finding a car to replace my expiring one and preparing for a newly acquired freelance gig, &c &c.
Happy almost long weekend, everyone. (Or ordinary weekend, in which case, sorry.)
Also, my Secret Garden vid is going to run in a Vividcon themed show,* which is super-awesome, a) because it's Vividcon and b) because it's not They Want More. No offense to dinosaurs and Elton John, but this one has languished in its shadow.
*This is assuming I can get the %^$*! encoding to work. LlamaEnc, Vividcon's special one-button MPEG (a.k.a. con DVD) encoding assistant, doesn't work on 64-bit computers (a.k.a. those running Windows 7) like the one I now use for vidding, and Adobe Premiere has approximately five thousand export options for MPEG/DVD, none of which appear to produce a correct vid. This may end up involving two computers.
Four times invited, four times I've gotten a little thrill in my chest and done a happy dance in my chair. There isn't much equivalent for fic; people don't generally ask to read your fic at a con or anything. For that, the thrill I get is when an insightful comment comes in. And since I'm a writer through and through for life, it... means more to me. We'll see how the fannish experience progresses.
Next goal is to have a vid accepted that I have submitted to a con for the occasion. *eyes SGA vid that is finally in progress again* *eyes WisCon vids with something to say themed vidshow I just found out about that is focused on social justice and science fiction that that vid would have been perfect for had the deadline not been a month ago* *still going to try to submit Soccer Practice for Club Vivid*
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Am still valiantly attempting to produce an essay on consent play for the
kink_bingo ramp-up to the next round. The trouble is, there is way too much to say about consent play for a single essay, and I haven't settled yet on an angle pulled from my 1,500-word outline/brain dump. Maybe there will be two angles. "Types of consent play you can think about for your story" and "Great tastes that taste great together" (a.k.a. most kinks + consent play = even better), maybe? But then that leaves out "Why consent play works for some people," which is a common question. Arg. Input welcome. ETA: Maybe answering the "why" could involve ticking through the different kinds of consent/play, thereby taking care of angle one. With fic and occasionally film or TV examples.
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Um, but also I have real life errands and such to accomplish, so really I shouldn't be writing this or thinking about a fannish essay so much as I should be focused on finding a car to replace my expiring one and preparing for a newly acquired freelance gig, &c &c.
Happy almost long weekend, everyone. (Or ordinary weekend, in which case, sorry.)
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Date: May. 27th, 2011 12:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: May. 27th, 2011 12:36 am (UTC)What in particular would interest you in such an essay, if you're comfortable saying?
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Date: May. 27th, 2011 01:05 am (UTC)I'm interested in essays about kink in fiction, because I have very strong opinions about what works in stories or not. It drives me crazy when two characters in a historical fandom do the whole safeword negotiation thing because it seems so anachronistic, but I've loved other kinds of kink in historical fandom. I love it when kink seems in character, and it leaves me totally cold when it doesn't.
I also love stories with some kind of power struggle going on, and I feel like the kink stories I don't like have the characters negotiating all the interest out of the stories, but the ones I love use the kink to explore the power issues, and again, consent-play seems like it might be a good venue to play with those things.
That went long! I hope that helps!
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Date: May. 27th, 2011 06:31 am (UTC)I'd be interested in your essay too.
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Date: May. 27th, 2011 06:59 am (UTC)*shrugs* I love consent play so I'm pretty cool with any essay about it, heh.
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Date: May. 27th, 2011 11:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: May. 27th, 2011 05:15 pm (UTC)Things I don't recall and it's not mentioned on the VVC web site: the framerate part, whether it has to be progressive or interlaced or it doesn't matter. I guess you could ask them and find out. I leave the other settings alone. IDK what those GOP settings are and iirc I just left them alone. I think I did 2-pass VBR encoding at maximum depth with maximum render quality.
Oh, and up at the top, turn audio off. Here's the part that annoys me. VVC wants your audio in .wav or .aiff. IIRC when I tried using the audio settings ~here~ and setting the bitrate to whatever they wanted (they don't say on their website, which is super-useful, so I can't remember what it is, but I do remember when I submitted to VVC the one time in 2009 they came back to me and said they needed it in a particular bitrate too), I got an m2a or something file. So anyway I exported audio and video separately. So for audio I went to export "Windows Waveform," Uncompressed, 48000 Hz and 32 bit. I couldn't figure out a way to specify bitrate for a wav in Audacity. Trying to remember if I figured it out using any other program. Don't think so. Anywho. That was the issue I had with VVC way back when. Eventually after I fought with it for a while I was like "I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DO THIS," and I think they did it themselves or just used it like that.
But more recently laurashapiro used a vid of mine for VidUKon I think, and there I also used a 48000 Hz 32 bit uncompressed wav, and that was fine. Sooooooo. Maybe that is fine for VVC too now. If not it'd be nice if they put something about that on their web site. Who knows.
(eta: ahhh I remembered that if you select PCM for audio when you're doing the MPEG2-DVD encode, then it will do your audio as a WAV. But you can't control any of the settings and it's at 16 bit. Anywho but idk if that matters, who knows, stuff. I guess you could do it either way, since they accepted my 32 bit also. But don't do 32 bit float!)
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Date: Jun. 1st, 2011 01:23 am (UTC)If it's any consolation, I'm currently being haunted by "I Only Have Eyes For You." (The Art Garfunkel version.)