Will's blog

This is more for my notes. I figured if I post it here, then I've got it written down in a place I can find again some day.

I have a Canon Powershot S230 and it records video in some format that has a .AVI extension and I think it's Motion JPEG or something like that (I have no idea what I'm talking about in terms of video formats/codecs/whatever).

Kino doesn't like the format, though. So I need to use ffmpeg to convert the files to a format that Kino does like:

ffmpeg -i _file_name_ -target ntsc-dv file_name_.dv

Kino seems totally kosher with that. No clue why or how--I figured it out by trial and error.

Then I insert all the .dv files I want in a given "movie" into Kino. After doing some fiddling around, I Export, click on the DV Pipe tab, make sure the frame of: dropdown thingy is set to All, write the file name in, make sure the tool is set to FFMPEG VCD Export and then click on the Export button. That creates a file that's in a format that I can record to a cd as a data file and it plays magically on my Philips DVD player.

What a really fantastic movie! S and I saw it at the Loews on Church St. in Harvard Square. There were dozens of small children there and occasionally through the movie we could hear parents saying things to their children like, "See the baby penguin?" and "See the baby penguin learn to walk?" It was neat--definitely worth watching on the big screen with people all around you.

It's really well done, but it's really sad in many ways. Reminds me of various relationships I've been in with other people over the course of my life.

I went to a wedding on Friday and bumped into a few folks who had seen this movie and thought it was really charming and wonderful. So I went with my girlfriend and sister on Saturday to see it. It'd charming and wonderful and definitely worth watching.

The movie is AWESOME! I LOVE IT!

I have to say that the original movie is way better. I'm not sure why they bothered to remake it. Some scenes are almost identical and others are just... well, puzzlingly terrible.

Still, that sneaky butler guy Emilio was fantastic. He's very very sneaky.

The first one was super. The second one is stunningly phenomenal.

It was wonderful. I was incredibly sick and I had a headache and it was 3 hours long, but it was a wonderful movie parts of which were simply awe-inspiring.

Fantastic movie with lots of really neat stuff in it. 5 minutes of the movie are goofy, though. One of the goofy scenes is 3/4 of the way through and the other is at the end. Otherwise, I thought it was an excellent movie and worth seeing on the Imax

WHERE IT WAS HUGE.

I actually saw this a few weeks ago but never got around to writing an entry for it. I really liked it. There's some really wild stuff in the movie and it's fascinatingly stylized. I look forward to part two.