Thank you for the feedback folks, both here or on Youtube itself. I promise I've read through all of it, it's all very helpful.
So I've made lots of tiny corrections to the timeline, mostly audio. Some typos or mask errors. The next render starting tonight should be better. It's clear that I do have some areas of improvement though:
- My presentation is a bit too fast for a video of this size. I'm overwhelming the audience sometimes.
- Generally needs more breaks and pa...
2020-11-09 19:57:50 +0000 UTC
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I think I've managed to tame the rendering beast. And it only required three human sacrifices to Adobe - a real bargain.
Alas I couldn't quite get the full quality that I would normally get, but I think I had to compromise a bit in order to have my existing hardware render such a video. Nevertheless, it's still in 1080 resolution, just not quite at the max-quality settings I would typically use. Perhaps it won't matter as much for a video-essay.
Very curious to hear what you think...
2020-11-06 23:43:45 +0000 UTC
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Good afternoon everyone. Sorry, I really need to get into the habit of doing smaller updates faster. What happens is, I keep getting so close to completion I tell myself that I can deliver with the next update. But then something inevitably comes up to throw a spanner in the editing works.
So it's somewhere in the 7th week of the latest video-essay side project. Thank you for being so patient with me and sorry this is taking so long.
2020-11-03 16:06:56 +0000 UTC
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Good afternoon folks. Just to touch bases about the latest video.
Editing is still underway and entering the 5th week now. Sorry that it's all taking so long. Thank you for being so patient with me. I will get straight back onto bullshitteries soon, I promise.
So I've completed the first phase of editing on the video, playable end-to-end. I'm now performing a lighter second phase of editing in which I fill in some missing gaps, or re-do some scene...
2020-10-20 16:34:09 +0000 UTC
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Good afternoon everyone. I hope you're all having a nice week. Cor blimey is this year going quickly. I can't believe it's already October. My mum asked me for Christmas present ideas the other day. I would like to return to normal time please :S
On the editing front, it's day 17 on my attempt to get three video-essays up onto the channel. And I can report that part 1 (16 minutes 30 seconds) and part 2 (11 minutes and 13 seconds) are ready. Part...
2020-10-07 18:16:18 +0000 UTC
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Good evening folks. Thank you for the responses to the previous questions about the video-essays. The feedback was almost unanimously thumbs up to spend time on said side-project on the hope of getting it on the channel. Or at least essays 1, 2 and 3.
Apologies if I've not gotten back to you yet. I try to work through correspondence in batches, but...my inbox is a bit yikes!
So I've had a...
2020-09-24 19:09:21 +0000 UTC
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Good evening folks. I hope you've had a lovely weekend.
I'm very pleased to see that the Holdfast Bullshittery is well received. It was always going to be hit or miss, as it's a little bit niche. But I'm very glad to see that people seem to want more highlights. I shall absolutely provide.
Since that bullshittery I've been swimming through the hard-drives and text files. Doing a bit of data-management. It's all very unsexy. But it needs to be done or it all becomes a conf...
2020-09-13 18:44:06 +0000 UTC
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Good afternoon folks. Sorry for making you wait so long. The latest bullshittery compilation is currently ready for you to view here - https://youtu.be/UKrwnPEKi5c
I was meaning to do an update on Friday. But on each subsequent day I thought I would have it finished, so rather than make a quick update saying very little it's been a mad dash to the finish line.
Let me know what you think in the comments. And...
2020-09-08 14:34:26 +0000 UTC
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Good afternoon folks. Hope you've had a nice week and are enjoying the weekend. Over here it's the end of the 3rd week of work on the latest bullshittery and here's an update on progress.
The video is cut end to end now, meaning that all of the scenes have been selected and are in the correct order. Previously I had about 7 minutes roughly plotted out. Now it's all set and is looking good. And I've reached about 5 minutes and 40 seconds of the keyframing in After Effects.
2020-08-22 12:26:48 +0000 UTC
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Good evening folks. Just a quickie update.
The latest bullshittery is entering its second week of work, and thus far everything is going smoothly. Whilst I've not scrubbed most of the Holdfast streams, I have scrubbed enough to make good start. Since I know which highlights I really want to use for the beginning and end.
I might want to return to scrubbing in the 3rd week to bulk out the middle with fresh clips. But the overall structure is looking solid and the highlight...
2020-08-11 18:23:31 +0000 UTC
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Good evening dear Patrons. Hope you're all having a great week so far.
After the last bullshittery I took a one week break to rest and recooperate. During which I did some tax paperwork, played some games and went fishing. And now I'm feeling rested and recharged, ready to dive straight into the next Youtube project.
On that front, and in the spirit of the previous polling system, this next project is my personal choice. And whilst I'm supposed to take something already on the pol...
2020-08-03 16:22:56 +0000 UTC
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Good evening folks. The latest render is all done and is right here for you. Presenting the conclusion of the Antistasi games, Random Antistasi bullshittery (part 5) - https://youtu.be/vSXurjyWzJU
Will remain unlisted for a couple of days to give you a chance to watch it. Let me know what you think in the comments. And thank you sincerely for your generous suppor...
2020-07-24 18:42:48 +0000 UTC
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Good afternoon everyone. Hope you're having a smooth start to your week. Over here it's the start of week 8 on Random Antistasi Bullshittery (part 5). Hopefully the final week. Sorry it's taking so long. This project has been particularly demanding.
Since the last work-in-progress edit I've been working on bringing the bullshittery from about 11 minutes, to 19 minutes in duration. Providing a cle...
2020-07-20 18:50:40 +0000 UTC
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Good evening folks. It's the start of the 6th week of editing on this chunky project and I've finished the first two third of the edit. Completing the previous quality-assurance over the weekend.
The current work-in-progress is available here for those interested - https://youtu.be/PJqtDW6kfg8 (11 minutes and 11 seconds duration)
It ends a bit ab...
2020-07-06 18:14:01 +0000 UTC
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Good evening folks. Another update on bullshittery progress. It's a bit of a gruelling project, I'm afraid.
It's the start of week 5 on Random Antistasi Bullshittery (part 5), and thus far I've been able to hit that 13 minute mid-point previously mentioned. A natural point to stop and polish what's been made so far.
From Thursday last week I've been quality-assuring what I've done to try and bring...
2020-06-30 21:39:45 +0000 UTC
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Good morning folks. I hope you're having a nice start to the weekend. Over on this front it's the end of the third week on Random Antistasi Bullshittery (part 5) and here's how things are progressing.
I'm far through the keyframing and animation now, having reached about 9 minutes and 47 seconds on the timeline. For those not familiar, the 4th and final week would usually be the quality-assurance for a typical 10 minute compilation. Meaning that I'm ver...
2020-06-20 08:32:27 +0000 UTC
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Good evening folks. I hope you're all have a smooth week. Over here it's editing day 6. And here's an update on the latest bullshittery.
Last week, my objective was to take all of the remaining Arma 3 Antistasi highlights in the project file, and turn them into one final Antistasi bullshittery episode. Which would also function as the series finale.
And on that front I succeeded in about 4 days of cutting, but oh my god it's a m...
2020-06-08 18:06:27 +0000 UTC
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So the poll earlier this week, in which five options were presented, has a clear winner - Random Arma 3: Antistasi bullshittery. Which means I'll started editing immediately to bring you the various highlights as the next video on the channel.
Fret not those who fancied something further down the list. I'll continue to alternate choices, with the next one being my personal selection from somethi...
2020-05-30 11:31:50 +0000 UTC
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Good morning everybody. Thank you for taking part in the poll. I'll do a follow up post in a moment about that :)
Over the last week though, I've been doing something completely different. Attempting to fix a very problematic piece of the DayZ video-essay series.
For those not familiar, I occasionally disappear to work on a semi-private series in a completely different format from the ...
2020-05-30 11:23:35 +0000 UTC
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Good evening everybody. So it's the start of the next working week and I'm keen to get back to editing on the next project.
After Random Mordhau bullshittery I took 2-3 days to chill. Before then cracking on with some script work on Thursday and Friday for the long-term DayZ video-essay series. Sorting out a very problematic script for one of the earliest episodes that's in dire need of a re-do.
I've just been working to get it voice recorded (though the bank holi...
2020-05-25 20:29:20 +0000 UTC
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Good morning folks. Sorry for going over the schedule there. But I've finished the latest render for the various live-stream Mordhau highlights - Random Mordhau Bullshittery
Let me know if you spot any whoopsies. I think I've caught all the mistakes. But as always there's plenty of time for a cheeky re-render. And I hope you like it.
2020-05-17 09:34:28 +0000 UTC
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Good evening everyone. Super quick update I'm afraid, as there are only so many ways one can say "editing is continuing with no problems".
It's editing day 21 of 25 for Mordhau Bullshittery. And I'm very much in the quality assurance stage. The video is virtually complete, but is going through the all important clean-up and polish - fixing mistakes, re-doing keyframing that might not work, moving scenes around, etc.
2020-05-07 18:38:11 +0000 UTC
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Good evening folks. Just to keep a progress report short and sweet:
It's editing day 14 of a scheduled 25-30 ish for Mordhau bullshittery. And thus far everything is going just fine. I've reached about 8 minutes and 40 seconds of principle editing. Though the runtime has decreased from about 15 minutes to 11.
This isn't due to any drastic cutting, but the act of tightening most scenes for comic effect. A few seconds here, a few seconds there, etc. Here's a s...
2020-04-28 18:12:35 +0000 UTC
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Good evening folks. So after the last update I received a lot of thumbs up for doing a Mordhau bullshittery. Therefore I figured I'd crack on with it and get as far as I can. But I should have done this update a tad earlier, sorry.
It's editing day 9 of a scheduled 25-30 days ish. And things are going very well indeed. It's all clicking together very nicely.
Mordhau footage seems to have that nice compartmentalised quality. In that the highlights are self...
2020-04-21 19:53:28 +0000 UTC
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Good evening folks. Welcome to the weekend. I hope you have a good one.
So this week, pre-production has been pretty good. I've been able to move the footage for Mordau, The Witcher and PUBG. And set myself the task of scrubbing through it to figure out what I have and whether it's useable for a bullshittery. And if not, what I would need to do next.
- Mordau scrubbing went swimmingly, and I was able to ...
2020-04-10 21:20:41 +0000 UTC
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Good afternoon everyone. I hope you've all had a lovely weekend.
So after the last bullshittery episode, I decided to take a short breather. Spending the other half of last week doing some very light admin tasks, such as responding to correspondence or data management. But mostly just recharging the batteries after such a big project.
But I'm feeling rested, energised and ready to jump right into the next one!
2020-04-06 18:22:10 +0000 UTC
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Good morning folks. I hope you're all doing okay in this month of weirdness.
So it's been about 31 editing days of a scheduled 20 for the latest project, and boy did I miss the mark there. Sorry it took so long. But the latest render was finished overnight and I'm pretty sure it's ready to go. I hope you like it - https://youtu.be/BzNRibPBL3o
For those not familiar, Rising Storm is a game t...
2020-03-31 09:55:26 +0000 UTC
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Good afternoon dear Patrons. I hope you're having a lovely week and you're all staying safe at the moment. An update for you all on the Youtube editing front.
It's currently editing day 18 of 20 scheduled days for the latest project, Random Rising Storm Vietnam Bullshittery (part 2). I apologise but I'm pretty certain I'm not going to have it finished within that time frame.
This is my bad there. I decided that the ending clip for this compilation needed ...
2020-03-19 18:27:20 +0000 UTC
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So it's day 10 of a scheduled 20 editing days for Random Rising Storm Vietnam Bullshittery (part 2). And here's an update on how things are going.
Despite a bit of an inefficient start, I was able to give myself a kick up the backside and get things back up to speed. Skipping a couple of streams this week to really knuckle-down on editing.
A quick shot of the timeline:
2020-03-06 19:35:02 +0000 UTC
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Good evening folks. Thank you for taking part in the poll from the end of last week.
So it appears that Rising Storm: Vietnam is the winner, though not by a gigantic margin. There's a fair old split between the other choices. I'll probably do what I did before and pick the next project is something from further down the same list. So other things can be edited that wouldn't really...
2020-02-26 18:36:57 +0000 UTC
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