A Peculiar Blog

Welcome back!In my ongoing quest to become a youtube partner and reach the point where I am earning a livable income from my videos one of the things that has repeatedly been a source of untold headaches is sound. I am especially talking about music in particular. Sound effects can be troublesome at [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads I was watching a video yesterday that included a unique kind of transporter accident in the story. Two people were beamed up but before they could be rematerialized, the transporter circuits suffered severe damage. When folks had the chance to do some repairs they tried rematerializing the patterns that [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads After taking WAY longer to get this thing done than I had wanted, It’s *FINALLY* done!
I had to re-shoot things a bunch of times. It took half of forever to get the sound to come out even remotely passable and I re-did the final rendering no less than seven times [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads I have been trying on and off for a couple of months now to create a passable version of the “kawoosh” effect that is used in the Stargate SG-1 series when the stargate is activated.
I’ve tried all manner of things and thus far I have not been able to convince Sony [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads One of the things that I learned when I started getting into playing around with video (and more recently, rendering video from animated 3D models) is that the better the video quality and the higher the resolution, the larger the files are. When I first got started my videos were [...]