Technomations

Apr 17, 2011 14:33

I know most of this entry won't have a lot of relevance to many, but it is time that I sort of coalesced all of this chaos for myself... Plus there ARE a few practical ramifications to others.

I got my first computer in 1999. A custom built Pentium 1 system with Windows 98 Second edition. Simple, stable, tiny. I used napster after the news said "Oh my god, napster!" and it existed until an upgrade of my hard drive knocked out onboard ram which was so out of date I didn't know to look for it. Opsys 1 was built and stolen, Opsys 2 replaced it. I believe I ran windows 98 on these systems for a while as well since they were the only install discs I had. In 2004 I got my first laptop. I met Windows XP and quickly found "Movie Maker". I used it to make titles for C80 before I could even load C80 onto the computer, and then I learned how to do that. I also found the game Jedi Outcast and went "This game is awesome."

I went to college and during this time saw Red vs Blue. I went "Wouldn't it be cool if we could do that with Jedi Outcast? Oh, they have a sequel called Jedi Academy! Whoa, it is even more amazing!" and C80 also made the switch to being digital.

And so it went... C80, Holocron and Movie Maker existed in blissful harmony until 2006. Vista came out, eventually on my third laptop I got to meet vista. Vista had a horrific version of movie maker which sucked, but it came with a 'downgrade' that made Vista Movie Maker look like XP's, but it lacked the same transitions and effects and it could not save video in as high of quality while still being 4x3 video (which is the only video Jedi Academy can produce). So I didn't use Vista's movie maker, I stuck to XP.

Then around 2009 I got C80's new camcorder. Since it recorded in .mod, I couldn't use movie maker for live action C80 anymore. It sucked, but we eventually settled on Cyberlink Powerdirector. At least Chronicles could still use movie maker.

Then in the last year, something happened... During a video card driver glitch I started digging around. I fixed the blinking problem my monitor had, but movie maker wouldn't save. Surely that just was the result of the driver problem... Well, during all that I did a practice reinstall of Windows XP on a blank hard drive... And the problem still existed. Movie maker would not save...

What was this? Fresh windows and it still didn't work? Well, how about on another computer? So over the last few days I freshly reinstalled windows XP onto Opsys... Same problem! Movie maker will not work! Two computers, four sets of installations, and no movie maker? Is it a conspiracy? What's going on? I even downloaded "Windows XP virtualization mode" for Opsys' windows 7 operating system... And movie maker doesn't work on there because it can tell it is pretend.

What the hell does this mean? I can no longer use movie maker to save video files. I don't see a way I'll ever be able to use it again. Jeremy's movie maker still works, somehow, despite a fresh reinstall of windows a few months back... But I can't always take everything to him... That being said, I want to finish Chronicles season 2. It has been suffering from this movie maker crisis... I have the project files ready to save, all loaded on an external hard drive... Hopefully one day I can save 19 and 20 on Jeremy's computer... and say good bye to movie maker forever.

It's been a lovely six year relationship between Movie Maker and I, but the program has broken up with me and filed a restraining order. There is little I can do since reinstalling windows will not fix the problem. I've experimented all I can. I'll just have to finish this season remotely and then brace myself for using an inferior program to sloppily put together the chronicles like I do the live action... At least I've learned enough about the program to get it to look okay... And may we never have another LOTT debacle again.

memory lane - willamette, lott, swc, c80, mobos mainframe opsys spiffy, holocron, tags

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