Video Recording/Playback/Editing/Converting/etc.

bmwracer wrote:
You need to upgrade your version....

Yep, you do :) That's a screen from an older version :)

cori wrote:I noticed that on a handful of occasions (only did a quick scan, so no clue how often this occurs) there were long lines that got cut off when I enlarged the font.

That shouldn't happen.

The software SHOULD increase the line count to accommodate the larger amount of text... Unless the margins for the text was set wrong... If such as setting is available. :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
That shouldn't happen.

The software SHOULD increase the line count to accommodate the larger amount of text... Unless the margins for the text was set wrong... If such as setting is available. :sweat:

Being that I have an old version may have something to do with it. There was no margins that I could set and I didn't even think of fixing it myself. Because of that, I went ahead and edited the softsubs for the next few episodes I plan to work on today. Hope that goes well.

Sorry for the double post, but I just happened to glance at the ConvertxtoDVD video preview screen and I noticed a ton of blockiness going on (I've seen that happen in some DVDs I got from AD). I just hope that the rest of the scenes are ok and it was just a temporary glitch. I wonder if it's because of the softsubs or if it was the video file itself. I think I'll check this after the authoring is done.

cori wrote:Being that I have an old version may have something to do with it. There was no margins that I could set and I didn't even think of fixing it myself. Because of that, I went ahead and edited the softsubs for the next few episodes I plan to work on today. Hope that goes well.

Yup. :victory:

With all the time your spending redoing stuff for various reasons, maybe you should try some other software package.... :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
Yup. :victory:

With all the time your spending redoing stuff for various reasons, maybe you should try some other software package.... :sweat:

I really should, but at the same time, I'm reluctant to do so because of my crappy low-RAM computers. But perhaps I should at least download the latest version of that ConvertxtoDVD so I don't have to deal with all this stuff. Still, I found out that I do have to look over the subs anyway because I noticed some spelling errors and was a bit nitpicky about certain things when I watched a few parts of the drama. Why can't these people proofread their work? :grumble:

cori wrote:I really should, but at the same time, I'm reluctant to do so because of my crappy low-RAM computers. But perhaps I should at least download the latest version of that ConvertxtoDVD so I don't have to deal with all this stuff. Still, I found out that I do have to look over the subs anyway because I noticed some spelling errors and was a bit nitpicky about certain things when I watched a few parts of the drama. Why can't these people proofread their work? :grumble:

I've groused about that for ages now... No success.

I usually run the .srt files through the spellchecker in Word. :)

And more times than not, I delete all the extraneous parenthetical crapola:
(1200 yen ~ $120), (unagi = eel), etc... :shakehead:

bmwracer wrote:
I've groused about that for ages now... No success.

I usually run the .srt files through the spellchecker in Word. :)

And more times than not, I delete all the extraneous parenthetical crapola:
(1200 yen ~ $120), (unagi = eel), etc... :shakehead:

Hey, that's a great idea! I never thought about using the spellchecker.

And I actually don't mind all those stupid comments. Just as long as they aren't fangirly crap.

cori wrote:Hey, that's a great idea! I never thought about using the spellchecker.

:thumbsup:

And I actually don't mind all those stupid comments. Just as long as they aren't fangirly crap.

I just find that stuff obtrusive... Just do the translation and spare me the Japanese vocabulary and culture lessons... :bleh:

I checked the disc that I just authored and found out what the weird blockiness part I saw on the video preview was. During that part, there was a glitch and after that, the sound kicked off! Crap. This is just not working out at all. I might as well ask someone to do all this work for me because so far, 6 hours went down the drain working on this softsubbed drama. :banghead:

That sucks, cori. It may have to do with your slow comp... I'm with beem, you should invest in something a bit better for video work. 128MB ram isn't enough, ideally you should have 1G of ram or more. I have 512MB on mine and it's not really enough.

Anime Dad wrote:That sucks, cori. It may have to do with your slow comp... I'm with beem, you should invest in something a bit better for video work. 128MB ram isn't enough, ideally you should have 1G of ram or more. I have 512MB on mine and it's not really enough.

Well, I use my 512 RAM laptop for the encoding, the 128 RAM desktop to download, so it's not all that bad. But since I also work on my site (not at the same time as I encode stuff), it's really inconvenient if it doesn't work out since I can do only one disc a day.

If worse comes to worse, I'm going to have to get another laptop or desktop and that might be hard since it's the holiday seasons and I'm pressed for cash. :sweat:

cori wrote:

Well, I use my 512 RAM laptop for the encoding, the 128 RAM desktop to download, so it's not all that bad. But since I also work on my site (not at the same time as I encode stuff), it's really inconvenient if it doesn't work out since I can do only one disc a day.

If worse comes to worse, I'm going to have to get another laptop or desktop and that might be hard since it's the holiday seasons and I'm pressed for cash. :sweat:

Oh, OK. But it is a hassle. I have the same problem at home, because our one and only decent comp is in big demand. That was relieved somewhat when I got my lappy, but it doesn't have a DVD burner and is now out of action :(

Anime Dad wrote:

Oh, OK. But it is a hassle. I have the same problem at home, because our one and only decent comp is in big demand. That was relieved somewhat when I got my lappy, but it doesn't have a DVD burner and is now out of action :(

Oi, that really sucks about your laptop! How long ago did you get it?

cori wrote:

Oi, that really sucks about your laptop! How long ago did you get it?

‚`@few weeks ago. It's from work - it got damaged when I had my car accident last week.

Anime Dad wrote:

‚`@few weeks ago. It's from work - it got damaged when I had my car accident last week.

Ack, only a few weeks ago? And damn, that car accident really did do a lot more damage than we realized, huh. :(

cori wrote:

Ack, only a few weeks ago? And damn, that car accident really did do a lot more damage than we realized, huh. :(

Sou desu. I hope it won't be too bad :sweat:

cori wrote:Well, I use my 512 RAM laptop for the encoding, the 128 RAM desktop to download, so it's not all that bad. But since I also work on my site (not at the same time as I encode stuff), it's really inconvenient if it doesn't work out since I can do only one disc a day.

If worse comes to worse, I'm going to have to get another laptop or desktop and that might be hard since it's the holiday seasons and I'm pressed for cash. :sweat:

Maybe instead of buying a new PC, just upgrade your memory to something more usable, like 512MB or 1GB... That might be all that you need. :)

PS: I'm not flying out there just to do a memory upgrade unless you make it worth my while... :beaten:

bmwracer wrote:
Maybe instead of buying a new PC, just upgrade your memory to something more usable, like 512MB or 1GB... That might be all that you need. :)

I thought about that, but I've been told that it would be better to just get a new computer since I've had this desktop since 2001, I think. Also, I have no idea exactly what type of Dell computer this is so it'll be hard to find out what type of memory to get. :sweat:

PS: I'm not flying out there just to do a memory upgrade unless you make it worth my while... :beaten:

Just name your price, beemie. :beaten:

cori wrote:I thought about that, but I've been told that it would be better to just get a new computer since I've had this desktop since 2001, I think. Also, I have no idea exactly what type of Dell computer this is so it'll be hard to find out what type of memory to get.

Being a Dell, you'd think there would be a label somewhere...

Of course, Dell PCs aren't particularly upgrade-friendly. :grumble: