In the beginning, there was Fire Emblem: Three Houses and it was good.
Well, wait. That’s not entirely accurate. Let’s try this again.
(more…)Category: Media
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Satisfactory: 2022 Co-op Year End Tour Video
The video I mentioned in the previous post? Here it is:
Arrak-ish. Dune… desert biome. Look, I’m bad at naming things sometimes, okay? I hope that we all get to have more fun, less stress, more health, less catastrophe, more prosperity, less misery in the year to come.
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Silly Things To Do With Video Editing
I’m working on a tour video for our three-person co-op Satisfactory game. I recorded the footage Tuesday night. (We took the week off for various reasons, so I used that time to let the Space Elevator shipment production accumulate a bit.) For lack of anything better to do and not wanting to actually Do Game Stuff without the others, I started a video project.
Last night I completed the editing-down. Tonight I started the text overlay process, and decided I’d take this chance to learn something new (to me) in DaVinci Resolve: How to pin text to an object on the screen. Tracking, in other words.
It’s a learning process, but for the sake of this one joke I feel like it was worth it:
Yes, I used that garish color combination on purpose. I mean, why not? Mind you, I could have used a fancier method and achieved smoother, better-looking results. But for a quick throw-away joke? It’s fine.
Hopefully I’ll have the full tour video up by the weekend.
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2022 Album Wrap-up
It’s that time of year when, on social media, you start seeing some folks’ “Spotify Wrapped” posts along with various websites’ “best of” listicles and such-like. Well, this wasn’t a huge year for new music for me and since I had a computer rebuild partway through the year, my “most played” data in MusicBee is… stunted.
But that’s not going to stop me from talking about the albums (and one “EP” big enough to qualify) I bought this year.
(I’m leaving singles and one particular compilation/soundtrack record out for various reasons. If someone’s really curious I can loop back around to them in another post.)
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Satisfactory: Turbopower Factory Tour
Fifteen minutes to record, four hours to edit and add a slew of text cards, and half an hour to convince YouTube to post it and let me select a thumbnail of my own choosing instead of picking one of the three automated options.
My ongoing “save game” wherein I play with design elements and such is called “eSthetics” because I’m an absolute dork. I know, you’re all shocked & amazed. I didn’t want the trouble of recording, cleaning up, and editing a voiceover track so the audio is just what’s in the game footage itself. Also, I thought the idea of going all “silent movie text gags” with title cards would be fun (and I was right). I’m not sure which method I’ll settle on if I do more of these, but I’m glad to get some practice under my belt with this particular style.
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Satisfactory: Rocky Start, 2.5 Updates Later
I got this done, start to finish, in the span of about a week. This included taking yesterday off from work (as an ostensible mental health day, which I definitely needed) to hunker down & finish adding clips, editing footage down to a somewhat-reasonable 39 minutes, and recording my voice-over.
This meant listening to my recorded voice bits repeatedly until everything was trimmed down and slotted into place. It was every bit as cringe-inducing as you suspect.
At any rate, here you go:
All things being equal? I’m actually proud of this one. I took the fact that the game loaded in with a reset/default player avatar and used that to create a kind of narrative path for the video to follow. During the edit, I discovered a couple of other fun things to do along the way.
It could be better, but I could’ve done much worse, too. Go, me.