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

[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.