GuuzakaTube 07/04/17
How
ironic that I end up typing the Canada Day entry on American
Independence Day! Well, the Canada 150 weekend is over, and both of
the videos are now finally up, so it's time to discuss them and tell
you about
how Canada 150 went.
So
as I tell you in the video itself, this was one of the “big”
things I wanted to do for Canada 150, and that completing this was
rather time consuming, but worth it! Another thing to point out that
you wouldn't know is the fact that I said animating
the frames was a breeze. It wasn't. Well, it certainly seemed like
that at
first.
All I had to do was select all the frames, and set them to the same
duration and presto! It worked at first, until when the computer kept
given me various
stupid/aggravating/annoying/pestilent/big-headed/infuriating/ridiculous/cheesy
errors and excuses as to why the video just wouldn't publish to the
desktop! One of these errors was error 0x887A0005, and some
foolishness about the files going corrupt or how the graphics card
needed to be updated. I was then concerned about whether it would be
possible to create such a video, so I tried various things
and tried to adjust the durations, but no avail. Eventually, I just
had to resort to publishing 200 frames at a time. This meant that I
had to create 12 parts... Goodness flipping gracious! It didn't take
long, but seriously?!
This computer is a Core i7, quad-core tool and it couldn't do the job
properly?! Or was it Movie Maker to blame? Both maybe? Who knows! I
was just glad that it finally freakin' worked! There's no way I'd let
a project that took me a few days of 2300 pixels go to waste to
easily! I determinedly
fought for a solution and won the battle! Victory in time for Canada
150! I'll have the drawing uploaded to DeviantArt
shortly.
This
was the grand video of Canada 150: the fireworks! While it was a very
lively, colourful
event to watch, I'll be honest enough to say that it felt much like
every other Canada Day fireworks. What do I mean by that? I was sort
of expecting to see more colourful shots and even a 150 illuminate in
the sky, but that didn't happen. At least not at the coastline I went
to. Don't think such a thing happened anywhere else in Canada, but I
could be wrong as I didn't watch the firework shows from other
cities, save for a brief one from Ottawa. Despite my high-ish
expectations, I wasn't disappointed so don't be under the impression
that I was. My real
disappointment
was with
all the other videos that I filmed to and around the site. That's
right: there was supposed to be more Canada 150 videos on the
channel, but because they
turned out so darn
awful,
I was like, “You know what? Don't even bother editing these and
putting
them anywhere near internet!” So I followed my
own warning
and put
them away as archives that I might not even really watch. Yeah,
that's how bad they turned out. “Can I know what exactly was so bad
about them?” you may ask. Lots of things: the sharpness/quality was
substandard, the unsteadiness was absurdly bad, the
audio was very annoying in some segments, and yeah, I think you get
the idea by now. It's a bummer indeed, but at least you can watch the
unique pixel video or the colourful fireworks video for your Canada
150 fix. Oh yeah, and speaking of fireworks video, I really
hope
that I won't get a copyright notice for the music in the background –
Yep, I did! Great! Should I remove it so I can monetize the video or
what? Sigh... A difficult decision. As much as I'd like to have the
video monetized, it's going to cause a segment of the video to be
completely silent and awkward. It may just be one song, but there are
other songs in the background with Labels, so it would only be a
matter of time before a notification comes up for them, so to play it
safe and prevent the video from having awkward silences, I'll just
have to grudgingly leave it in. Next time, I guess I'll just have to
watch from a part of the coast away from the obnoxious speakers,
which honestly kind of destroyed the beauty of the event. My 2015
and 2016 Canada Day videos
were
fortunate to be spared from this nonsense. Not to mention that I also
had a better view and was much closer to the Lake. Oh well, better
luck next time!
So
I guess that does it for the Canada 150 hype! Well, guess not as
hyped as it ought to be, and I made it sound more disappointing than
I ought to in the last parts of the entry above. As
I say, I would've been much happier if the other videos were suitable
for publishing, and if I had gotten a better view away from the darn
copyrighted music! For such reasons, it wouldn't have been a bad idea
to focus more so
on
photography. Don't worry though, I was still able to take some great
pictures, some of which I'll share to Instagram
once
I'm done with this blog post. So
going forward from this Canada Day business, you may be wondering
what's next? If
you've been reading the previous entries, you'll know that I plan to
focus mostly on commentaries and hopefully gaming videos for July, so
that's exactly what I plan to do next! Oh yeah, speaking of games, if
you actually bother to look at my Tweets
as I instruct you to do during my call-to-actions, you'll see a Tweet
about how I finished listening to Yooka-Laylee's entire soundtrack.
Why this game? Not entirely sure, but I guess while I was browsing
the internet and saw it come about somewhere, I remembered that this
game is the spiritual successor to the much loved Banjo-Kazooie
series. I also heard that it had the same composers, so this
definitely inspired me to give it a listen. WOW! I definitely was not
disappointed! The Banjo-Kazooie vibes is very strong within the
soundtrack, and that's a good
thing! I
hear that some of the songs are also supposed to resemble the Donkey
Kong games, but because I've never played them when I was younger, I
would have never known without researching that and reading some of
the YouTube comments on such videos. Now because I stopped playing
video games years ago (my specialty is mobile games!) do not expect
me to play these games. Not that you wanted to anyway, but you know?
Anyways! That does it for this entry, so let's get it published!
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