Pug’s Place

Today I burned the first Pizza Delivery Jedi DVD from Linux, the first working DVD copy which has the rotoscoped lightsabres. Much of the legwork was taken care of by Any2VOB, a shell script which automates the process of taking most video formats directly to a .VOB file which you can put on a DVD. Menus and such I created with DVDStyler which, while not easy to understand, is well documented.

It works, and on the DVD I have:

1. Pizza Delivery Jedi - No Clashes (the version on Archive.Org now)
2. Pizza Delivery Jedi - Clashes (the version on Archive.Org from November until March, the first version with rotoscoping
3. Pizza Delivery Jedi Director’s Cut (no rotoscoping, 11 minutes long)
4. What Is Free Culture? - My video for Florida Free Culture’s first meeting, since it was handy.
5. The jacket art as a picture

The one problem is there is some interlacing weirdness on TVs. It’s only noticeable when there’s fast action going on, but the screen blurs like mad when things move quickly. I’m thinking that the interlacing has gotten backward in the movies through the iterations of editing and it may need to be deinterlaced and reinterlaced before I’m done. But now I’ve proved I can go from .mov files to a DVD which will play in any DVD player!And the menus and stuff are designed, configured and everything so I just have to update the .mov file, transcode it with proper interlacing and re-burn the DVD.
Then I need to go and have some glossy color laser prints of the jacket art done. Hmmmm.

Went shooting with Sean today for a little while. Too little of a while, really. Wasn’t an optimal time but it worked, and we had fun.

Continuing my quest through The Chronicles of Amber. Very entertaining.