shinyhappygoth

Yeah, so I probably should have mentioned this a while back, but, sadness, they won't be using my captions on the ReBoot DVDs after all.  Rainmaker found them what I presume were the captions used on TV.  On the one hand, I would have loved so much to be involved, but on the other, my captioning was entirely self-taught and I'm sure I got plenty wrong (technique, not content).  So it's probably just as well.  (Of course, now I'm learning proper captioning for work.  Timing, thbppppt.)

Shout! Factory said they would still send me a free set "for all my help," but since my contact didn't reply to any of the last few e-mails I sent, I have no idea if he's actually received my mailing address.  I hope I can figure this out, because the DVDs are being released on my birthday, and if I'm not already getting a copy then this has obviously got to be a present from someone (or a birthday self-indulgence, which counts).

I'm still planning to finish my captions (or, rather, subtitles) for the sake of those who have video files, so they can be translated into other languages, and so I can do the different characters' lines in pretty colours.  I will probably use the DVD captions to check mine against (or copy the DVD captions and fix any errors they made, it amounts to more or less the same thing).

(x-posted from my LiveJournal)


November 18: Rainmaker Entertainment has my ReBoot episodes on YouTube flagged as copyright infringement. I have been expecting this (though I was kind of hoping for a note first), and I duly remove the lot. As no such complaint was made of any of my non-episode videos, I leave those.

November 19: I am awarded with a cameo in David Malki !'s bonus Machine of Death story, for having alerted him to a formatting problem in the Kindle version of the book.

November 23: I re-e-mail Shout! Factory to ask if they would like to use my ReBoot closed captions on the DVD set. They would indeed! I will be in the credits and receive a complimentary DVD set!

November 24: Rainmaker Entertainment flags "Fast Forward: The Making of ReBoot" as copyright infringement. This causes my YouTube account to be terminated.


STOP GIVING ME MIXED MESSAGES, WORLD, THANK YOU.

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The silver lining here outweighs the cloud, but I shall miss my fifteen minutes.

My Danny Phantom vector fanart, also posted on my portfolio:
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Barely-qualifies-as-fanart that I have run across recently:
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News flash, people: Just because it turns up in a Google image search does NOT mean it's free for the taking.  If you think my pictures are official show material, I'm flattered, but guess what?  Image searches SHOW YOU WHERE THE IMAGE CAME FROM.  The source page OCCUPIES MOST OF YOUR SCREEN.  If it's someone's art portfolio, they probably don't want you using it without their permission!

The first transgression has been resolved by the addition of credit and links, but, based on the perpetrator's professed cluelessness, I expect to see more of this.  Gods, somebody fetch me a cluebat.


ETA: The second offending pic is gone.  I hope that means the artist took it down of their own accord, but since they never responded to my complaint, it's hard to say.

Last night my Live Video class had our final performance.  It went pretty well and was fun and there were a couple of quite nice three-year-old girls there for me to corrupt as well as a super-friendly pit bull puppy with lots of kisses to share.  There was a decent crowd for the performance.  We finished packing up the equipment at nigh on 1 in the morning.  Then the professors bought us beer.