Hello there! It’s Christmas day (or was about 26 minutes ago,) and I find it wonderful that God would grace us with so much real love in this world: with friends, and family, and all that is good.
So, in this simple, short, and sweet post I will give you a little Christmas graphic I made up in Inkscape recently.
Merry Christmas to all!
Oh, and by the way: tomorrow I may be filming a new film that I just came up with this evening. It will involve nature, a creek, hopefully some music, me, and a narration. Hope you enjoy it! We’ll see how it goes.
And for now, God bless and best wishes to all!
May you find what you are truly looking for,
Yes! Finally! Praise God! My first real article has been accepted to BlenderNation (BlenderNation is the central news site for Blender, the free open source 3D content creation suite.[1])
Read the article now!
I am so glad and highly appreciative that my article as been accepted. I have been endeavoring to get an article submitted for some time now, and had somewhat given up hope (for a time) that I would ever get something submitted. But Bart (Bart Veldhuizen, BlenderNation’s primary contributor and founder) has been cleaning out the backup of article suggestions that the Blender open source community has been sending in. A recent addition to BlenderNation has been the “Rapid Fire” articles, shooting off multiple, short article suggestions and links. A wonderful idea!
So, I am very thankful for Bart accepting my article! And I am also thankful to Zelgadis (Head of the Morevna Project) for leading the open source community of Synfig in an endeavor to create this open source animé film and for letting me know my article had been submitted (I hadn’t found out yet!) Also many thanks to the Morevna Project open source community contributors and all the open source developers, artists, and enthusiasts of many kinds spanning the globe.
Lord, please help me to be able to make films. Thank you for the grace you have allowed me and showing me how to get this far.
May the road ahead be brighter than the night behind, may the sun rise swiftly upon my weary face, may my soul be refreshed at the springs of justice, my hope renewed at the wells of mercy.
May my path be guided upon each turn I make, and may my feet find swiftly the road I am to take.
God bless me, my friends, and all those who want to be filmmakers. May our journey be sweet and ushered upon the dirt paths to quiet victory, down the dales of February frost and early June flowers, to the river of conquest unto the sea of rest.
YEEEEES! It’s working! Praise the Lord! Whoot! Yahoo!
OK, onto the point: I have successfully produced a very short video clip from a 720×480 (or was it HD SP?) mpeg2 video file into a final output of a 720×480 mpeg2! This may sound like “So what?”, so let me explain:
Using Rob Scott’sBunnyHopHop workflow I have used Blender 2.47 to do a minor edit to a 720×480 (or was it HD SP?) mpeg2 file with proxies, exported an excerpt of the video to PNG, optimized an AVS script in AvsP, (find the AviSynth wiki here,) ran it in QuEnc to encode the video to mpeg2, and the final result was a compressed 720×480 video with a/v in sync!
See a screenshot:
Current video editing workflow: Blender, AvsP, QuEnc, and VLC Player
Praise the Lord! This is a big mile marker in my video editing journey!
Now I hope all my editing needs will be met by open source software and Blender, and that BlenderAVC will rise to meet the standards of editing HD in the open source world!
About BlenderAVC:
BlenderAVC is an open-source project to provide the “glue” between Blender’s Sequence Editor and video in the AVCHD format. It provides a way of automating the creation of AviSynth scripts and proxy files so that AVCHD and HDV video can be efficiently edited within Blender.
P.S. The video I tested was from a number of .tod video files through CyberLink BD: PowerDirector Express and exported to mpeg2. In future testing I may use other workflows to optimize the time spent/quality.
We all have our journey, and I praise God for his grace and provision in my life.
Very soon is the next step for me. Be ready for your leap of impossibilities, because if you wait and persevered long enough, the rush of the river may spill out and you will be amazed at what unfolds in your path.
But please, know this: God is love, and he will make a way. He works out all things for good, and, if you hold on and seek him, you will find him. It is promised.
As the days pass by and progress is made in various areas, one may wonder what happened to Minosa Films – like, where are the films?!
Well, I suppose everything has a journey. And each journey has it’s pilgrims, and once in a while, you run across a hero. Well, I am a pilgrim. And I need to do my part, and my part is not only the technical side of making sure we have a camcorder that will work, but scripts to make movies from. So, I need to write scripts. We have one script for a film titled “Is This Love?”, and I plan to make revisions upon it (basically add to/and or rewrite it.) I think it would be wise to have more than one script on hand, so, I need to write! 😉
Recently I found out about a neat project called Morevna Project. Check it out here: morevnaproject.org. I am considering contributing to it. From the website:
The main goal of Morevna Project is creation of full-lengthened anime movie, utilizing Open Source software only.
Other goals:
Promotion of Open Source software and its ideology.
Testing and improving existing Open Source products by giving appropriated feedback to developers and community.
Validate Open Source tools as suitable for creation of professional good-looking animation.
Provide content for other artists to learn from or to re-use, including documentation and tutorials
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Minosa Films is a small Christian film group stationed in the United States, dedicated to providing you clean, quality entertainment. We don’t just make you laugh, but think. That’s what we’re about: giving you a perfect film with a powerful message.
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