The Murphy's Laws (Applied to Video) VideoHelp Thread

[MeDiCo_BrUjO]

Hello everybody, let's apply Murphy's Laws to things we know that happens in Video.

The sooner you need a video to be ready, the longest it will take to encode.

[yoda313]

Hi,

Or the sound will be out of synch or the video will be at the wrong speed or the color is all washed or........




Kevin

[MeDiCo_BrUjO]

The $200 rebate on the $600 Video Capture card you just bought will be forgotten just long enough for you to remember it... the next day it expired.

[canadateck]

You computer crashed just as your video was about to be done Encoding.

[Cole]

After your PC has spent four hours encoding, you realise you forgot a vital setting in the encoding program.

[smearbrick1]

Your encoding a SVCD through TMPGEnc for about 6-8 hours. After it finishes, everything looks freakin' great! The output from the encoder and the source are almost identical!! Woo hoo!!! Party time...

Too bad you used the DVD template.

[Cole]

Encode the DVD, burn the DVD, delete all the source files; find it was a bad burn!

[reboot]

Edit the 4.5 hour capture of that epic film in Cuttermaran, realize you've kept the commercials, and cut out the movie.

Fight with your burner for 3 hours, trying to get it to recognize the blank you put in (upside down)...

[MeDiCo_BrUjO]

Cole wrote:

Encode the DVD, burn the DVD, delete all the source files; find it was a bad burn!

This actually happened to me...

[offline]

Capture, edit, and author a great DVD. Do some
disk housekeeping. Days later, come back to burn it
only to discover you have deleted the whole ^%&$ project.

Squeeze extra video onto a dvd to please a client/friend
only to have them turn around and bitch about the slight
drop in quality.

Show a movie for some family/friends and when it
ends, the next track is auto loaded and just happens to
be a prOn clip you downloaded off the net and forgot
about.

[yoda313]

Hi,

the next track is auto loaded and just happens to
be a prOn clip you downloaded off the net and forgot
about.

You have had this happen to you???? Care to go into more detaiL?????

Kevin

[offline]

You have had this happen to you????

Yep.. even mentioned it here some time back.

My brother and his wife and kids were over for the weekend. I was
playing some "net movies". I have one of those divx players that
auto plays one movie after another. Well the main movie ended
and another came on. Of course it was POrn. Something I had
downloaded from the net, saved "for a friend" and forgotten about.
Of course the "action" started immediately and the volume level was
set for loud surround. redface.gif

My brother usually rings me to say he got home ok. This time however
I picked up the phone later that night only to hear peals of laughter.
I will never live it down.