Festivids reveal #2! "Part of That World," a silly tentacle treat
What's that? Tentacles and morbid humor? Count me in.
It Came from Beneath the Sea is a classic B-movie about an oceanic creature that starts encroaching on human ships/submarines/beaches/cities because radiation. It features the special effects of legend Ray Harryhausen. There are a bunch of human scientists and military types, but whatever, we know who the real protagonist is. I was pleased to be compared to
jetpack_monkey when someone guessed that he made this vid. :)
Title: Part of That World
Fandom: It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)
Characters: Giant octopus, civilians
Music: from Disney's "The Little Mermaid"
Length: 2:34
Content notes: Sea monster attacks treated humorously
Physical notes: Stop-motion animation
A/N: A treat for
gwenfrankenstien for Festivids 2018-9.
Summary: Out of the sea
Wish I could be
Part of that world
AO3 | Vimeo | Download & captions pending
Lyrics here.
"Wouldn't it be funny to set the story to Ariel's song from The Little Mermaid and take the sea monster's POV?" I asked while perusing people's Festivids source requests, because if "They Want More," "Behind Blue Eyes" and "It's Always Halloween in the Pegasus Galaxy" didn't clue you in, this is the type of narrative subversion I enjoy.
Little did I know the journey this concept would send me on, because the footage was among the top three most annoying I've ever worked with.
There's the original version of the film and a colorized one. All the DVDs I could find included both, with an option to click a button and switch between the two versions as you watched.
I assumed this meant the DVD index would contain the full black and white movie and the full colorized movie, and I would just keep the black and white one.
INSTEAD, the footage consisted of 30 frames in color followed by the same 30 frames in black and white, then the next 30 frames in color and those 30 frames in black and white. For the entire film.
WHO DOES THAT.
I was not going to disentangle them manually. Surely some code solution existed for VirtualDub or AviSynth,* I thought, and although I couldn't ask fellow vidders because secret Festivids reasons, I found an answer on forums and Wikipedia: a command that would delete X # of frames every Y # of frames starting from frame Z.** So I set it up and ran it, and with some fiddling, it worked... until it went out of sync.
Because the movie is only 30 frames + 30 frames SOMETIMES. Sometimes it's more. Sometimes it's less.
WHY.
Fine. Fine fine fine. So I scrubbed through the footage in VirtualDub until it hit the sync issue and exported from the beginning until that point (a few minutes into the movie). Then I calculated the new starting frame, reset the AviSynth code, and scrubbed again from there until the next place it went out of sync and exported those few minutes. Except it soon became clear that this was going to take hours. To add insult to injury, when I watched the output file, the frame rate had gone wonky, so everything looked like it was in jerky fast-forward.
I gave up, found a crappy stream online, figured out how to download it, and edited that.
(There were a couple of times in the editing process where I thought the vid wouldn't cohere or be funny, but there was no way I wasn't going to try after all that prep.)
After I'd made the whole vid, the crappy quality continued to bother me, so only then did I go back to that DVD footage. I deleted all the special code and exported the relevant scenes, brought them into Premiere and deleted the color segments manually from each clip I needed. At least there was no wasted effort that way, because the lower-quality clips were already laid down and simply needed replacing one by one. (Well, that and a new sequence in 23.976 fps because the streaming version was 25.5.) Never mind that the final Premiere timeline looks like Frankenstein stitched it up.
In conclusion: tentacles. They're worth the effort.
* and I'm sure ffmpeg as well, but I haven't learned it yet
** For the record: SelectRangeEvery(60, 30, 885)
which means "take out 30 frames every 60 frames starting at frame 885"
Originally posted at https://bironic.dreamwidth.org/381394.html, where there are
comments.
It Came from Beneath the Sea is a classic B-movie about an oceanic creature that starts encroaching on human ships/submarines/beaches/cities because radiation. It features the special effects of legend Ray Harryhausen. There are a bunch of human scientists and military types, but whatever, we know who the real protagonist is. I was pleased to be compared to
jetpack_monkey when someone guessed that he made this vid. :)
Title: Part of That World
Fandom: It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)
Characters: Giant octopus, civilians
Music: from Disney's "The Little Mermaid"
Length: 2:34
Content notes: Sea monster attacks treated humorously
Physical notes: Stop-motion animation
A/N: A treat for
gwenfrankenstien for Festivids 2018-9.
Summary: Out of the sea
Wish I could be
Part of that world
AO3 | Vimeo | Download & captions pending
You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com
Lyrics here.
"Wouldn't it be funny to set the story to Ariel's song from The Little Mermaid and take the sea monster's POV?" I asked while perusing people's Festivids source requests, because if "They Want More," "Behind Blue Eyes" and "It's Always Halloween in the Pegasus Galaxy" didn't clue you in, this is the type of narrative subversion I enjoy.
Little did I know the journey this concept would send me on, because the footage was among the top three most annoying I've ever worked with.
There's the original version of the film and a colorized one. All the DVDs I could find included both, with an option to click a button and switch between the two versions as you watched.
I assumed this meant the DVD index would contain the full black and white movie and the full colorized movie, and I would just keep the black and white one.
INSTEAD, the footage consisted of 30 frames in color followed by the same 30 frames in black and white, then the next 30 frames in color and those 30 frames in black and white. For the entire film.
WHO DOES THAT.
I was not going to disentangle them manually. Surely some code solution existed for VirtualDub or AviSynth,* I thought, and although I couldn't ask fellow vidders because secret Festivids reasons, I found an answer on forums and Wikipedia: a command that would delete X # of frames every Y # of frames starting from frame Z.** So I set it up and ran it, and with some fiddling, it worked... until it went out of sync.
Because the movie is only 30 frames + 30 frames SOMETIMES. Sometimes it's more. Sometimes it's less.
WHY.
Fine. Fine fine fine. So I scrubbed through the footage in VirtualDub until it hit the sync issue and exported from the beginning until that point (a few minutes into the movie). Then I calculated the new starting frame, reset the AviSynth code, and scrubbed again from there until the next place it went out of sync and exported those few minutes. Except it soon became clear that this was going to take hours. To add insult to injury, when I watched the output file, the frame rate had gone wonky, so everything looked like it was in jerky fast-forward.
I gave up, found a crappy stream online, figured out how to download it, and edited that.
(There were a couple of times in the editing process where I thought the vid wouldn't cohere or be funny, but there was no way I wasn't going to try after all that prep.)
After I'd made the whole vid, the crappy quality continued to bother me, so only then did I go back to that DVD footage. I deleted all the special code and exported the relevant scenes, brought them into Premiere and deleted the color segments manually from each clip I needed. At least there was no wasted effort that way, because the lower-quality clips were already laid down and simply needed replacing one by one. (Well, that and a new sequence in 23.976 fps because the streaming version was 25.5.) Never mind that the final Premiere timeline looks like Frankenstein stitched it up.
In conclusion: tentacles. They're worth the effort.
* and I'm sure ffmpeg as well, but I haven't learned it yet
** For the record: SelectRangeEvery(60, 30, 885)
which means "take out 30 frames every 60 frames starting at frame 885"
Originally posted at https://bironic.dreamwidth.org/381394.html, where there are
comments.