A couple of weeks ago, I put up videos for Mega Man 2, and the most anticipated titles of this year. Because I fully believe in coming back to this in a semi-regular fashion, I upgraded my studio a little bit, and decided to get a more streamlined video recorder.
Therein lies the problem. You see, my PC is not powerful enough to handle the MP4s that I have been creating. All weekend long, I was struggling to figure out why the videos that I was making wouldn't work, or were suffering from ridiculous dither or aliasing.
I recorded probably 4 hours of Far Cry 3, and put together a somewhat decent review early last week. However, every time I tried to throw a transition onto the video track, my editing program of choice would crash. After trying everything I could for two days, I decided to try and upgrade to the newer edition of the program in the hopes of having fewer problems. As it turns out, Power Director 8 can't handle the MP4s with the high quality I recorded, but Power Director 11 can.
The new problem that I encountered was the aforementioned dithering and aliasing. While the production video looks and plays without any issue, when I publish it to YouTube, the thing looks like absolute crap. Blocks show up all over the output file, and make what looks beautiful look like it's having a seizure. After messing with settings all morning on Sunday, I finally just threw in the towel. Until I get a new PC, it looks like the videos are going to remain in 720p quality.
That said, the old Power Director program that I had still can't run the video files even in production mode. The version of Power Director 11 that I'm currently using is only a trial version, so it has that nice watermark in the beginning of the video. I can sacrifice some quality, but I'm not going to do that. With that in mind, the more modern videos are going to be put on hold until the middle of February when I get my tax return and can better afford the program. Cross your fingers that it's a big one, and maybe I'll even upgrade my PC so that I can produce files at 1080p as well.
In the meantime, I'm going to try and shift my focus to the retro reviews again briefly. I can still produce them on PD8, and I've got a huge backlog of them to put out there, so be on the lookout for that.
And in other news, the That's Entertainment Podcast wasn't able to record today, thanks to a sickly cohost. With that in mind, a quick rundown of all I was going to talk about during the show:
- Still love the Cheesecake Factory. Had a Filet Mignon that melted in my mouth.
- Hansel and Gretel was a decent popcorn flick movie. It's not going to win any oscars, but if you want to see a movie that doesn't take itself seriously but is still ridiculously fun, go to see this.
- Dishonored is the kind of game where even if you're decent at it, you still feel like you're an incompetent fool.
With that, I'm out peeps!
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