Malusdraco

re-entering my dragon era

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Malus || 27 || genderqueer aro-ace

should probably put more here but i'm a white ass IT professional and artist as a hobby. very opinionated but working on being less rude


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Malusdraco
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i am... making something. and i think i want to have the background be not just music this time and do a voice over. that being said, the idea of having to go through my own video and caption it myself makes me want to pull my skin off into small ribbons

i was thinking, because that one auto-caption OBS plugin is pretty good, that maybe i'd record myself in OBS JUST talking over the video, rip the audio and captions from that, and put it into vegas for editing. (with the idea that i would be editing the captions instead of doing them from scratch)

that being said, i could easily see this not going great. does anyone have any tips that could save time and brain energy? (i am the kind of person where going back to something over and over again makes me fucking crazy, which is why this has to be low effort/low overhead)


Malusdraco
@Malusdraco

so. vlc decided it will not convert the last 2/3rds of this mkv. i have TRIED starting it where the first conversion ended (a little more than an hour in) but every single time it's compressed the SHIT out of the footage and i don't know why. i even tried matching video codecs to the clip that's working and for some reason it just shits out with an error

i really want to like. actually do this project. i want to see it through, but god i'm ready to commit violence

(please do not suggest to me to just use a different software. i am not going to download anything new unless i absolutely have to. unless it is literally fucking impossible.)


Malusdraco
@Malusdraco

okay so here's where we stand:

  • vlc can record videos, and do so at a pretty good speed
  • the problem is, it doesn't actually resample the frames when it exports the video, no, it just exports it at however many fps it takes to make it go the speed you want it to and vegas DOES NOT like 900+fps video files (cool, sick, nice)
  • re-encoding the video after it's been sped up can totally be done, but also! make sure your bitrate is good or else it looks like shit!!
  • oops actually after a minute in or so it STILL looks like shit for compression reasons

i have this stupid thing where i need to follow something through. i need to give it a shot while i still have things to try. i know it's stupid. i know i probably am going to just have to accept that this speedpaint is not gonna get done. but goddammit....


Malusdraco
@Malusdraco

i did it. finally.
a little over 4h of footage contained in 2 different mkv files can be converted to 15 minutes of mp4 footage in VLC with the following steps:

  • open up your mkv in vlc
  • add the "faster" button to the interface with "customize interface"
  • also enable advanced controls under view to access the RECORD button
  • click that faster button until it looks about the fastness you need
  • restart it from the beginning, then click RECORD and hit PLAY
  • wait it out. the file will show up in whatever the default videos folder for your computer is (you can set that in preferences->input codecs)
  • open that sucker up once it's done cooking, give it a watch through for good measure
  • click convert/save
  • pick the sped up file from the file picker, under additional/advanced options put the buffer as 1000ms (do i know if this did anything? no. safety 1000ms buffer)
  • continue to the next part. pick h264 + mp3 from the profile, then hit the wrench for more options
  • in the VIDEO CODEC tab, set the codec to MPEG-4, the bitrate to 6000kb/s and the framerate to 30fps
  • we don't care about audio in this house
  • hit SAVE and then browse for a folder and name the output file
  • slap that START button

is this the best way of doing this? probably the fuck not. did i fucking persevere even when i couldn't find JACK SHIT online to help me?

YEAH BABY


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I don't know OBS' version of this very well, but I've used processes like this before and it's a smart way to work. Let the automation do the broad stroke, and go in and pretty it up after is a good way to work in general.

see that makes sense! and yet i think if i made a script and tried to read it i would simply explode 😔 even with things that SHOULD be scripted, my script is more of a rough outline than anything else

I only ever manually subtitle my videos when I'm really feeling like spending hours doing nothing but typing and listening to my own voice. However, it's not a lot of "listening to the same thing over and over again" and moreso, "listening to it once, typing out what you remember and listening to it one more time to make sure you didn't mistype anything." It's not exactly the most low-effort strategy, but it's the only advice I've personally got.

OBS has auto caption?! I never knew that.
This might not be helpful, but I’m pretty sure the newer versions of DaVinci Resolve can auto-generate subtitles (though only the paid version) and can render the subtitles separately.

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