Thursday 19 November 2009

Not being able to use my PC and then getting annoyed when I can use it

This morning, encoding the video I started yesterday evening had finally finished, it took 6hrs 20minutes, for a video that's about 5 minutes longer. That was using the MPEG2 codec (which used both cores of my CPU) instead of H.264 (which only used one core when encoding). So the MPEG2 codec was faster, and also it had a soundtrack to be encoded, which I didn't have when I tried encoding with H.264.

I watched the video, and while the actual video was okay (a bit blurry), the soundtrack was really quiet. So I had to go into Premier Pro, increase the soundtrack volume, and then export the whole again. I also lowered the target bitrate for the video as the current video was 724MB, which is a bit large for uploading to youtube.

I started the encoding again, and wondered what to do while my PC was effectively out of action (can't do much when the CPU's at 100%). I remembered that I wanted to add a page to my pog website about how to store pogs, so I took some photos of Pogtainers, which took quite a while to setup.

I tried to base the setup on the Strobist Macro Studio, though I couldn't seem to get results as good as David Hobby (I didn't have a table to set everything up on either).

After lunch I started to write the info about the different Pog Storage options, checked my email, and also cut out some pogs in photoshop (yes, it still worked well enough to do that even with the CPU at 100%). Someone had emailed me some more pog scans, so I cut them out as well.

My video finished encoding, so I watched it, and it seemed okay, at least the sound was nice and loud now.

After dinner I checked my email again, then processed the photos of the Pogtainers I took earlier. Unfortunately after a few hours work I resized the image and cut it into slices for saving for the website, but when I went to save I accidentally pressed Ctrl+S instead of Ctrl+Shift+S, saving over all my hours of work with a flattened small image. And because I had been slicing the image after flattening and resizing it, the History didn't have enough entries in it for me to get back to before I flattened and reized the image. Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! 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The weather today was overcast all day and very windy, but it didn't rain.

Food
Breakfast: Lemon marmalade toast sandwich; cup o' tea.
Lunch: Mature cheddar cheese with Italian style salad sandwich; clementine; slice of cold Pepperoni pizza; Piece of Tiramisu; cup o' tea.
Dinner: Beef burger with cheese, tomato ketchup, and Italian style salad in a bun; Bowl of vegetable fake cup a soup. Pudding was a Strawberry yoghurt and a slice of packet sponge cake with blackcurrant jam & buttercream. Coffee.

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