Pictures and reviews...
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coolohohI've always wanted to know how ppl make those pretty pretty collage of screen caps… like in tumblr and stuff… and yeah, i still don't know how to make gifs! Maybe i should search for gif makers in the app store XD
screencap wise… you can always just paste the screenies in any old paint software, but then once you stick a screencap down and paste the next one, you can't move the old one anymore… unless i use the big shots like photoshop… but with me constantly struggling with the ram, I'd rather not :X. They all recommend skitch for taking SSes on the mac, but i find it kinda… limited? or maybe i just have not play around enough yet… idk!
Hmm review writings. Despite the extremely long time it takes, frustrations here and there… i enjoy the overall process… and i feel really satisfied looking at the completed product. Of course, i feel really, really delighted when someone comment and say my review helped them understand an episode that they watched but was clueless about… or like they can now go and watch the raw video since they have a rough understanding of what's going on now… it feels really great to be able to contribute to the community - even just a little. Like there's people who write fantastic tics, ppl who provide scans/translations/videos/subs…. makes me happy to be able to spread the arashi love a little… XD
I can't say enough how glad i am to be able to read chinese - and how glad i am for all the crazy chinese subbers who sub arashi shows week after week, and really fast. Like variety shows take a little longer, 1 week or so, something 2 weeks. Dramas take like… 1-3 days. Crazy fast i tell you! Its almost as if subbing arashi videos is their full time job or something… or they have a ton of arashi fanatics subbing in the team! Considering i take like 5 hours or more for a review of one episode…! They have to translate each line, then do the timing, typesetting and everything! Like in 2 days! (for the dramas) Yeah i guess dramas its easier in the sense that there's the japanese subs there… but still! Like… ridiculous fast! Is there ANY subbing group in the fandom that does english subs as fast? Goodness… and every week too, its pretty much the same few group subbing everything…. -.-''' amazing really. So yeah, its thanks to these groups who provides the chinese subs that i understand what arashi's saying, and that i managed to slowly pick up some japanese while watching arashi show… so much so that now i can get *most* of what they say w/o subs. So yeah… if you don't know japanese or chinese, it can be hard to find subbed arashi shows to watch ne? And slow too. Not saying that those english subbers work slow, its just that 1) subbing is hard work and 2) those chinese subbers are just crazy people. Our english subbing group just don't have as much manpower as those chinese groups i guess. For them to be working THIS fast, I'm pretty sure they have a lot of ppl doing it right?
So… hopefully by writing these reviews it can help out those who don't understand japanese… since i can churn out reviews much faster than they can sub it in english… (hence the reason why I'm doing all the reviewing all the new episodes as they come out... I'm planning to do old episodes that i really enjoyed watching too) after all i always 'cheat' and skip parts i don't understand anyway XD Not that i can help it! Its hard to catch what they are saying, type it down, then check the dictionary! With a whole conversation that's quite an impossible task for me! PLUS my comp still can't seem to change languages properly! I tried the other day and it worked fine and i got really happy… but AFTER that the bloody comp lagged! Or more like… it just hanged! Like !$@#$#$!@@$#%*!!!! I'm not sure what happened there. Already repaired disk permissions and stuff and nothing seems to be wrong! Maybe its just cos my comp is forever running out of ram….
Hmm… i realised a few things on why my reviews take so long...
1) My comp is slow. A lot of time is wasted on my force quoting firefox to free up ram so that stuff don't hang up on me zzzzzzzzzz
2) i watch a little, then translate the dialogue… but then i forget what they say, then re-watch (and sometimes i forget AGAIN)
3) i can't understand/catch the dialogue, so i re-watch a few times to try and understand things
4) i waste a lot of time trying to pause the video at just the right second for that perfect SS (maybe I'm just too picky)
5) arashi is funny and i re-watch the funny parts, for my own entertainment
6) if the episode is exciting and i screen capped a lot… the screenies take really long to upload. Like 20-30mins… and that's only for 1 part of the HnA update...
7) While part 1 is uploading, the blogging tool uses up a lot of ram and hence slows down a lot… so doing part 2 is really slow till the posting is done.
So yeah, a lot of it comes down to me re-watching a lot when the show is exciting… and then my comp wastes me a lot of time too. Ahhh… need a comp with more ram T.T My dad's mac has 8gb of ram (mine has 4) and i installed marsedit and my screen capping widget on it… maybe i shd try using his comp instead >< mine is… :X i think i kinda… destroyed my comp by running way too much stuff. But the thing is… i AM using the programs that I'm running! T.T What am i supposed to do? T.T Sighz.
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Date: 2012-11-18 02:51 pm (UTC)I know I want to. lol
If you need help, I could lend you a hand on the language;;;;
Of course only if you need help! I wouldn't want to intrude on your review making :)
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Date: 2012-11-18 03:43 pm (UTC)I'd be glad if you could fill me in on the parts i missed/don't understand XD
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Date: 2012-11-18 07:56 pm (UTC)I would love to lend you a hand :)
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Date: 2012-11-19 03:50 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-11-19 04:01 am (UTC)Which model is yours? Mine is late 2011 13 inch model.
Although it is my dream to buy iMac one day. XD
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Date: 2012-11-19 04:08 am (UTC)mine is 13 inch mid 2010.
been having that problem since... a very long time ago and i just gave up trying to solve it. upgraded to lion, mountain lion, still same @$@#$ problem
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Date: 2012-11-19 04:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-11-19 04:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-11-19 04:41 am (UTC)