miscellany stuff

[dbskyler]

Dear LJ: As much fun as it is to stumble across surprise replies to my comments around various communities, do you think you might possibly get around to fixing your notifications problem at some point? Because you see, I don't really have the time to go around checking all the threads where someone might have responded to me. That's why notifications are nice things, especially when you get to my age and don't always remember all the conversations you might have dropped in on. Kthnxbye.

In more interesting news, I've received my copy of the Doctor Who TV Movie in the mail! I've only just begun to explore the DVD extras, but they look pretty good. I mean, there's a whole entire disc of extras! I am also watching with the info text on, which is something I don't normally bother doing, but so far there are a lot of really interesting factoids. Did you know that instead of starting off the movie with Sylvester McCoy, the BBC wanted to use Tom Baker? Can you imagine what that would've done to fandom??? We could've had two Fifth Doctors! The entire numbering system would've been completely messed up! How would we label our fanfic?

Some of you may recall that awhile back I spoke about a certain fanvid that I want to see get made. Well, I've now decided that rather than going around to various comms and hoping to get some vidder to take pity on me and make it, I am going to try to make it myself. My progress so far: I've managed to figure out that the reason iMovie doesn't import my clips despite all the online vidder resources saying that it will is because I have version 2 of the software, and iMovie is currently up to version 11. (Version 2 not only doesn't seem to import clips -- or at least, clips in the format that I have -- but it doesn't seem to do much of anything as far as I can tell.) The good news is, I have free, legal access to version 11 of iMovie. The bad news is, it won't run on my current operating system. So now I have to upgrade my operating system in order to upgrade my iMovie in order to discover if I can import these clips. And then, of course, the actual work starts. Why do I suspect that I may regret this?

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Oof! Good luck with wrangling iMovie!

Talking of vids, here's a lovely Brig vid you may not have seen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhbeaRvLX7c

Someone else on my FList was complaining about LJ notification issues. *hugs*

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

I'd seen the vid already, but it's a good one, so thanks!

I think I'll need a lot of luck if I'm to successfully wrangle iMovie, but I feel like giving it a shot. We'll see what happens!

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Ah. I guess it showed up on Who_Daily or one of the other comms I don't follow... (I abandoned W_D before I started working 9 hours a day because I just couldn't keep up - and my interest in DW fandom has declined anyway... Got tired of the unnecessary drama.)

I'm pondering whether to try getting more into making icons - but it's a slippery slope (much worse than that Gallifreyan one which Sarah fell down!) - and I have so many plot bunnies!

[clocketpatch]

As far as I can tell the notification issue hasn't been affecting me (though I really wouldn't know would I? ...and that's the point)

XD the Eight movie extras. I haven't bought the DVD but I did run across the extra where Paul McGann has his original audition (with actual long hair instead of a wig!) and reads from the original script and... whoa boy we are so SO lucky with that movie. Not just the whole Tom Baker thing (which is wtf in the extreme) but that whole half-human thing?

That throw-away line is all that is left of a magnificent discarded plotline of pure crack that gets worse and worse (better and better?) as it goes on.

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

The notification issue has been so bad, yet simultaneously strange and haphazard, I can't help but know that it's affecting me. For example, I didn't get notified of your comment on this entry, but I did get notified of everyone else's. Isn't that bizarre? If there's a rhyme or reason to why I get some notifications but not others, I haven't discovered it yet.

Oooh, can't wait until I see that extra! And look, I have the DVD right here! *bounce* *bounce*

[clocketpatch]

Oh lj... *shakes head in despair*

As for the discarded plot line. I won't give it away for it is a thing of beauty. But the most beautiful part of it is that it involves Borusa. *tears of laughter* I want to know the fandom crack they were smoking to come up with this stuff, because it's like the worst origin fic you ever read decided to get high as a kite before digging into the Black Scrolls of Rassilon... as read by Paul McGann and some poor unidentified woman.

It's almost enough to make me want to shell out twenty bucks on the DVD (the video I found of it was only ten minutes, and apparently the actual clip is almost half an hour?!)

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

I just watched it! OMGWTF! Was the point of that audition to see if McGann could keep a straight face during those scenes? Talk about your overwrought, cracky-crazy origin fics!

If all that was left over from that was the half-human line and the bit with opening the Eye of Harmony, we were lucky indeed.

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

p.s. -- the audition excerpts on the DVD are only 10 minutes long, so I think you've seen the whole thing.

[clocketpatch]

I don't know whether to be delighted or disappointed by that...

Ah well, doesn't matter.

Uuuuuullllysses!!!

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Ulysses, the weathered Kansas farmer of Rassilon!

I really want to see that whole script now. Come on, fandom, more excerpts must survive somewhere, right?

[thisbluespirit]

:lol: Oh, dear, is this a new obsession coming on? :-)

The new version of the TV Movie DVD has a commentary wit Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann together. This renders all other extras irrelevant. :-D (Well, maybe.)

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

I know! Considering how great the TVM Reunion panel at CT2009 was, this commentary can only be a whole lot of fun.

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Um, maybe? I'm not particularly tech-savvy, but I'm tired of feeling completely defeated by this software application that's sitting on my computer. I don't know if I'll acquire the skills to be able to make a vid -- let alone make one that I'm happy with -- but I figure that if nothing else, giving it a try will teach me something.

McCoy and McGann commentary?? Yay! I'll have to listen to that soon.

[thisbluespirit]

Sounds like perfect reasoning to me - it's something i'd love to have a go at, having made a video once at college, the old-fashioned way in, using video and audio tape, which took nearly a solid three days - love to have a try with digital stuffs. Except I knwo from that it would a) take ages b) my computer would collapse at the strain and c) I can't do things like that right now anyway. :-)

(But I did tackle MovieMaker to make a little family history presentation once. It mostly worked.)

:-)

With the TV Movie, I did get the DVD, even though it came in the Evil Boxset (it was cheap on Amazon; my petrol would have cost more if I'd actually ben going to work these past five weeks etc.), all the things that really wound everyone up then seem crazy to still fus about, and barring a little bit of odd narrative structure, what you're left with is something very very beautiful to look at, joyful, and mostly surprisingly right overall. I think I might have been converted to loving it. Or maybe it was just watching it with the commentary on, I don't know.