FML Part 2,439

 

It's never easy, I'll tell ya that.

My first thing I tried was to see if I could figure out why I can't export a near flawless copy of T2 to this Blu. I'm willing to dedicate 60% of the disc space to this. All my older versions that I exported were pretty large, but then when Encore re-transcodes them it ends up doing something to them.

I thought--ok, let's just export straight to h264 blu ray. That would mean that Encore wouldn't have to transcode, would just use whatever I provide. (did I do this before? Can't remember.)

I set it to create that file at the highest compression it will allow, which is 60mbps. It finishes and has created a 28 gig video file, a 1gig audio file. Too big to fit on the single-sided blu, which is 25 gigs total.

I do it again, but this time I set the compression to 40mbps. Here's where it gets WEIRD. 

It created new files OF THE EXACT SAME SIZE. It's impossible. The lower the compression, the smaller the file. Trying to check the internet yields nothing, probably because nobody's exporting blu ray files any more.

I even tried one more variant and got the same exact result. So I was like, fuck it, let's go to the other thing I was going to look at. The Making Of for T2.

It's long. I've always known it was technically too long--it's like 92 minutes, and that's the SHORT version. But there were a few little things that bugged me, so I figured maybe I'd fix them. 

BUT...apparently I was all over the place with this thing. Must have had like 6 hard drives connected to the edit computer, but again, can't edit this on that computer. Took it to the laptop with the main T2 hard drives, but it's still can't find like 100 files.

I gotta go looking for them...find some of them, am missing a couple. I can probably patch this together though...then I find out...I used a lot of my brother's bts photos in this. I animated them, zooming and panning at times.

Those photo names, though, reset on his camera. So there's a MG_00036 from when we shot the wraparound. There's also a MG_00036 from when we shot the pumpkin trail months later. And Adobe has gotten those confused.

Trying to simply link the media to the correct one doesn't work. For some reason, every time I do that, it turns that photo into some weird multiple-photo monster, so if you play through it you see like 30 photos flash by in that couple of seconds where there should be just one photo.

So I have to actually reimport the photo, bring it in, and reanimate all its keyframes.

TEDIOUS. Holy fuck.

I dunno...this is a lot of fucking work...