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Re: The grumpy animator room

It's a good thing I switched to Lightworks.

I used WMM for Bricks: The Short Film, a short that I made two summers ago that inspired the Bricks series. I had to manually drop each frame in and shorten it (when you put a picture in, it automatically set it to 1 fps or something). Uggh, I don't want to do that again. I think I missed something where you can change the framerate, but that doesn't matter now. I put each frame down to about 5 fps. I know, I was in Choppyville in 2009.

I also used it to add some of the audio for a school project i made during the 2009-2010 school year. I was still in Choppyville then, I didn't get into Smooth City until last summer. It wasn't as bad this time, I was just putting in sound effects.

There's just one feature that WMM had that I don't know if Lightworks has. I was able to turn down the volume of a sound effect so you can hear the characters talking more. Does anyone know if that can be done in Lightworks or Audacity?

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Re: The grumpy animator room

Of course it can be done. In Audacity there's a neat little db (decibel) slider on the head of each audio track with which to adjust volume.

I don't know about Lightworks but it certainly has this feature.

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Re: The grumpy animator room

coolasice11 wrote:

WMM takes forever! My advice: NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER use WMM!

I have to kind of agree with this... But for a different reason.

Everytime I've used it, the software was very unstable and would crash very often.

So, as you can tell, back when I used to use that I was a very grumpy animator. mini/tongue  Although that was actually a long while ago, back when I VERY first began making Brickfilms. I now not only have a better computer, but Sony Vegas.

P.S. TO THE NUIMOBILE!!

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Re: The grumpy animator room

I remember once, I was still using my old computer, ands I just started using a webcam. I was using Monkey Jam. I don't know why, the program, in that computer, when I was using the webcam, would crash every five frames, sometimes less, sometimes more.
Once, I was shooting, it kept crashing, but I managed to stay calm and have patience all the time. I finally made it, I don't even remember how many hours later, I got a 15 seconds shot done. No sets bump, no camera bump, no light flickers, nothing that didn't work: turns out that it wasn't what I wanted for the film, so I didn't used that shot.
So much pain and effort for nothing. That day I got like 15 blue screens of death in my computer, circa one each 15 frames (lucky me it crashed less than usual that day).

On a different note, today, I discovered I don't like shooting on the ground: it's so tiring to crouch, move the legos, GET UP, take the photo and crouch again. The worst part is to stand up: for a lazy person like me it's painful.
Still, I made 21 seconds of footage mini/delirium

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