One day in June this year, I decided to do a time-lapse recording of the sky. Little did I know that the weather would turn around a full 360° to how it was when I started it. I’m not complaining, though, since I find thunderstorms awesome. However, that’s why the view shifts around so much around the lightning part - I wanted to record the lightning/thunder at its normal speed as well as it being a part of the time-lapse video, so I repositioned the camcorder to try to get a slightly better view of things.
Thanks to my brother (Steeeven1 on YouTube) - it was him doing his own time-lapse video a couple of days ago which made me finally be bothered to edit this video which I recorded 3 months ago.
EDIT: Thankfully, all is back to normal now. What you read about below is what was happening until today.
Seeing as this is taking more than a few hours to resolve, I feel I should actually make a post explaining the situation regarding this.
On Monday, someone informed me of a copy of my video and suggested that I try to get YouTube to remove it. Being no stranger to the process, I sent off an email to YouTube… but shortly after, got one back telling me that my own video at been removed, due to a copyright claim from… wait for it… myself. This is not the first time which YouTube has made the exact same mistake with the exact same video - it happened on the 10th of February this year, too.
They replied to a second email I sent them, in which I explained to them that they removed the wrong video. They told me, “There has been a mistake by our system”, and said that the problem would be resolved shortly. …That was 22 hours ago. I’m not sure what their definition of “shortly” is, but in my opinion, that’s a long time to wait for the “leader in online video” to solve a problem which they caused so quickly.
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So, that’s how things currently stand. As of now, if you try to view the video, you will get a message telling you that it’s unavailable due to a copyright claim from myself. On the plus side, I’m now actually using my blog as a blog! =D
I know the piano isn’t perfectly in tune, but it was the best I had access to. Plus, if it had been really good, I might not have been allowed to have the front cover off it.
By the way, the piano happened to be in a building attached to a church, so I thought there was a nice irony to starting the medley with the theme of a vampire.
Just a few updates this time, nothing major… Here’s the usual download link.
More efficient memory usage.
“Music finishes in” (shown at the bottom of the main playback view when the events have finished being played, but the music still hasn’t finished) now always counts down in seconds, no matter what the playback rate is set to. This means the number will go higher if you set the playback rate lower.
Jumps, hands and quads (taps, not holds, which happen at the same time) now appear as red arrows on the scrolling arrows view to distinguish them from the yellow arrows which represent normal taps which don’t occur at the exact same time.
My brother and I are one of the many who don’t like the fact that we’re being forced into changing the design of our channels. Instead of (as our way of?) joining in with the futile protests, we opted for making a video. We decided to keep it light-hearted, though.
Please try to ignore the several glaring inconsitencies throughout. orz
On another note, I’ve finally switched from the dreadfully slow, unstable and incompatible Premiere for editing my videos, and I think it shows. I was able to spend more time editing and less time waiting for / restarting the program. The name of the program I now use, along with the rest of the credits, is at the end of the video.
I was more than a little nervous uploading this, truth be told, for fear of it being removed and them marking my channel as forever being a “bad” one. But I uploaded it anyway, hoping that a company as big as YouTube wouldn’t sink to those standards, and might even take a hint at what its customers like.
Well, as always happens when I make big changes, a lot of new bugs cropped up when I released revision 48 yesterday. This update squashes all the bugs I found, including one which has been lurking since long before yesterday but which I only just discovered. Also, a little countdown to the end of the music is now shown at the bottom of the main playback view if “Allow music to finish” is ticked and the step chart has finished, but the music still hasn’t finished. Quite a lot of things in total are fixed/changed (even more than in revision 48).
Shortly after making the newest version of StepMania Player, I wanted to try it out on my brother’s computer, which runs Vista (mine runs XP), and it wouldn’t run. More worryingly, though, the “Fix DLL OCX.exe” which I include in the download, designed to fix problems just like this, also failed! So, I’ve fixed the “Fix”.
One of these “Fix” programs is included in my Bleeper Music Maker program too, and so, if anyone has been having trouble getting either that or StepMania Player to run on Vista, this may well have been the problem all along. To those people, I suggest grabbing the latest versions of the programs from their download pages [SMP/BMM] and running “Fix DLL OCX.exe” again (right-click, “Run as administrator”). I haven’t added 1 to the version numbers of the programs because it’s not actually SMP or BMM themselves which have been updated (it’s just the “Fix” programs).
Well, this is a massive update, the main 2 features of which are the proper support for “dance-double” type step charts (2 pads), and the fact that music doesn’t have to be cut off at the end of playback any more (this new option to allow music to finish fully is enabled by default)! Note: The scrolling arrows view, for now, still only shows PAD 1’s arrows (if I mention pads any more, a knife will mysteriously find its way into my skull).
Wow! It’s been a long time since my last video of my Bleeper Music Maker program playing music. This time I DIDN’T make the music - it’s just playing a MIDI which someone else has made and released here.
This is the theme for when you’re fighting Satori (stage 4’s boss) in the 11th Touhou game (Subterranean Animism). I’ve increased the tempo, though, to try to make it sound more lively (my program plays 1-bit music, which is as basic as a waveform can get, and so long notes can sound very boring/tedious/headache-inducing).
My Bleeper Music Maker program is freeware, and you can grab the latest version of it and see more info on it here.
Also, I think I’ll be using this LED display in a lot of videos… if I can find a way to make it look less unstable/juddery on the camcorder. =/
Here’s a second batch of high-resolution randomness. YouTube has made the sync absolutely ridiculously bad, this time, despite me making the video in the same way as the last one. It’s almost like you’re watching a video and listening to a different video’s audio in some clips. =/
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