Srsly, if there's anything I can help with, you know where I am. And that there's nothing I like more than trying to explain and enthuse to people about subjects I adore :D
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aah. I've had a few of those. by
on 2009-01-27 21:23:00 UTC
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Re: Not at all :) by
on 2009-01-27 21:19:00 UTC
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You try learning anything from a tutor who likes the sound of his own voice enough to talk for practically two hours straight, even to the point of asking a question and then not waiting for an answer before he starts saying something that he's already said several times that lesson.
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Re: OT: Trojans and/or weird page redirects? by
on 2009-01-27 21:17:00 UTC
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From here there's one ad that always manages to crash my browser, but that's because for some reason it doesn't like opening PDF files, which is what the ad it. Otherwise I have no problems, even with popups.
Interestingly, I've had no ads here since I installed an adblocker. If you want the link to it I can probably relocate it.
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Not at all :) by
on 2009-01-27 21:14:00 UTC
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I'll offer to help explain anything that's tricky or try and make some of the most boring bits sound more interesting, though, if you like. It's aaaall in how it's explained.
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OT: Trojans and/or weird page redirects? by
on 2009-01-27 21:13:00 UTC
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I don't want to freak anybody out if this is just happening to me, but I've noticed over the past few months that my malware protection software, Sophos, has been catching rather a lot of Trojans (especially seeing as I've never had any problems before), and it seems to happen most often when I'm here. I've also noticed it when I'm on deviantART, though. What happens is that I'll click on a link to go somewhere and a little box from Sophos will pop up telling me it's quarantined a Trojan. Meanwhile, I'll get a blue screen in my browser, Firefox 3.0.5, that tells me the action was illegal and blocked by something-or-other. I've gotten Adobe randomly opening and telling me it can't open a file because the file is damaged--Sophos doesn't like that, either.
I bring this up now because I just had the page I was looking at randomly turn to an X-Box ad twice. Clicking Back returned me to what I was looking at. I don't know what's up with that. Sophos didn't have anything to say about it.
So, clearly I need to take my laptop to campus' IT department and have them take a look at her, but I wanted to mention it just in case anyone else is noticing the same kinds of things, or in case they aren't noticing and they should be. I suspect it's related to the kinds of ads we get here, but I really have no idea. Any information would be really helpful.
~Neshomeh
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Re: You're not the only one, don't worry by
on 2009-01-27 21:12:00 UTC
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Getting it done depends on biology not exploding my brain. You won't kill me if I say that it's the most boring class I have, will you?
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yay, more comments! by
on 2009-01-27 20:53:00 UTC
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Okay, so it seems to me that the best plan will be to *standardise* the volume across scenes, at least, and to try and do even more noise removal.
The echo effect for the Flowers/psychics definitely needs work, agreed. I'll see what I can do about toning it down.
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You're not the only one, don't worry by
on 2009-01-27 20:50:00 UTC
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I have faith that it'll all get done :)
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I recommend throwing yourself in the Fountain of Bleepka by
on 2009-01-27 20:49:00 UTC
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Works well, until those busybodies from Medical haul you out and try to resuscitate you ...
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Commentary gratefully received! by
on 2009-01-27 20:48:00 UTC
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Audio effects are still being fiddled with, so comments like these are very helpful and will definitely be taken on board :)
You're right, I'm hoping that the addition of the visuals will help differentiate between everyone's voices, but as it is I'm going to need to recut Scene 5 anyway - the disparities between how the two actors recorded their lines and then how I had to pitch-alter one of them for some reason confuses Audacity mightily and meant a need for some serious fiddling around with rates ... so that one's in line for probably the most drastic alteration.
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I don't recall seeing such a misspelling in the scripts ... by
on 2009-01-27 20:48:00 UTC
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but I'll go over them again to check. Can't have that sort of thing floating around!
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I didn't have volume issues... by
on 2009-01-27 20:38:00 UTC
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Not using my headphones, anyway. Haven't tried listening with my speakers.
Anyway, Scene 2 is good. There are a few places where it sounds like Plat is stumbling over the words, but the point gets across.
Scene 3 - yeah, I agree that the reverb makes it difficult to understand the speaker, whether it's Tess or someone else.
Scene 5 - Good work.
Scene 6 - Agreed, lots of variation in the voices, and I can't always understand them.
Scene 39 - I still can't understand anything in the announcement aside from "All agents" and "get your butts down here, now." It goes too fast and there are too many Ss. Esses. Sibilants. {= P Maybe cutting down on the echo effect would help? Also, I did notice that this scene seems to be louder than the others.
As for lines... yeah... um... I haven't been able to find a quiet, roommate-free moment (when I didn't have homework) all year. I still want to do it, though. *sorrowful kitty face*
~Neshomeh
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YEEEEEAAAAAARRRRGH. by
on 2009-01-27 19:22:00 UTC
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That word expresses my opinion on that fic in one anguished scream. Quite.
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Star Wars badfic by
on 2009-01-27 18:55:00 UTC
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Backtrack to the past
a story in which Luke Leia and Han get thrown back in time by the force. warning this was written when i first woke up enjoy no bad reviews plz i know i'm not a talented writer so lets just leave it at that :P
Severely OOC. That's all I have to say about it.
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Re: PPC Movie - Rough Scene Edits! by
on 2009-01-27 18:46:00 UTC
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I still haven't recorded my lines, due to college eating my time/brain. I will do it as soon as I a) find my headset/'borrow' my brother's and b) manage to get some quiet time where you won't hear either my brother's fake Scottish accent from the next room or my brother's music.
Unfortunately I have given up my only guaranteed quiet time in preference of going into college on that day to get work done in an environment where I can get assistance where necessary.
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I'll get a reference in. Good for a gag. (nm) by
on 2009-01-27 17:31:00 UTC
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A good read. by
on 2009-01-27 16:57:00 UTC
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I had no clue about a lot of the canonical elements but you made this fun to read nonetheless, so as far as I'm concered you've done a great job :).
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Meh, it made Zotz crack up. by
on 2009-01-27 16:23:00 UTC
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Me: Brass bra? Doesn't brass turn skin green?
Him: HAHAHAHAHA! So she would have green- (gestures)
Me: Yes. (snickers)
I love my costume jewelry, so I tend to have green fingers, wrists, and ankles.
It's still hilarious.
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excellent! by
on 2009-01-27 15:46:00 UTC
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I haven't the foggiest what the continuum even is, let alone anything about it, but that was nonetheless very enjoyable, and all made sense.
Spotted one tiny punctuation mistake: "“Jade’s not ‘old-looking,’ if the official data ..." - that comma after old-looking should be after the quotation mark too.
The centre-justification was a nice touch, and excellent use of agent-stuck-in-first-person.
Oh, and if you want to finish three or four missions at once, the trick is to find really short, really horrible ones. The more horrible the better, because ideally you want "so bad you can only write a sentence at a time before running off to a different mission". Thus you get to write many at once, although admittedly the downside is severe brain breakage.
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Did that a couple of weeks ago. (nm) by
on 2009-01-27 15:45:00 UTC
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I've just noticed something. by
on 2009-01-27 14:17:00 UTC
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On reading over the collected roleplay, I noticed that Morgan's partner's name has been misspelled on the two occasions she's mentioned. She should be Traf, not Tarff, and I'm not sure how that happened, since I know I would've noticed if July's reply had had that incorrect version. Anyway, I don't know if that's carried over into your scripts. It's not a big problem (and to be honest no one other than me will notice :P) but, yeah.
hS, helpfully annoying
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Ooh, fun. by
on 2009-01-27 13:59:00 UTC
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The thing about a good PPC mission is that you can enjoy it without knowing the canon. What's an Oracle Knight? Where's Malkuth? What do ligers have to do with this fandom? I haven't the faintest idea, but it's still fun to read. So good mission. Very enjoyable.
I need more synonyms.
hS
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Mind if I leave a commentary here? by
on 2009-01-27 13:51:00 UTC
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I thought you wouldn't. :P
They're very quiet. For scene 2 I had to have my headphones on and volume to maximum, and that was about the volume I'd expect it to be at normal level. So you'll definitely need to up the volume when you finalise them. Other than that, the intro's good. Very ominous. :P
Scene 3, a bit louder (good). Obviously the tracks need fiddling a bit, as you say (might I recommend you pay particular attention to the slight click on and off on each clip? A very brief fade effect might help with that, or if you can find a static removing function that'd be even better). At the moment my ears are too busy adjusting to the sudden background hiss to understand much of what Tess is saying. And. Er. The third voice later is either Tess with a reverb on or a Flower. I can't tell which, and I can't actually make out anything it says. So. Yeah.
Scene 5 is great, and I don't just say that because I wrote it. :P Obviously some of that is the fact that it's a single microphone not having to change, but it's at a decent volume and I can understand it. It's rather spooky without context, but that comes later.
Scene 6: decent volume, I can understand most of it, but there's a lot of variation in how the voices sound. Not so much a problem when you've got visuals, but at the moment it sounds like there's about five people there. And, again, the differing background noises leave that slight delay in understanding.
As a note on that, you could try adding a single background noise to the entire scene (air conditioning or something :P), and then including a slight (quarter second, even) fade at the beginning and end of each line. That'd make the backgrounds less noticable, and might facilitate understanding.
Ah, if only audio editing was as easy as fiddling with pictures...
Scene 39 I've heard before, but somehow sounds better now. Not sure whether you've edited or not. It still has slight clicks at the end of lines, but a bit of background noise (which is basically required for the Tomb) will mask that perfectly. And I can understand the Flower, too. So I have only good things to say about that scene. And it makes the problems I noted with the previous ones look likely to go byebye. So good. ;)
I'd offer my help for editing the audio here, but I suspect you've got it pretty much in hand. If you do need me to help out, though, well, you know where I am.
hS