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AugustWest on Jeopardy
« on: May 26, 2004, 07:12:31 pm »
Hey kids,

I've FINALLY gotten vid clips of August on Jeopardy.

My long ordeal began the week after AW's Jeopardy run when my external USB 2.0 USB capture device arrived.

The quality wasn't so great, and after about a minute of capturing my computer froze - no penis, nothing.

So I sent it back and ordered a much more expensive piece of hardware (about twice the price of the other one) and while the quality was superb, it too made my computer freeze.

I bought a PCMCIA USB 2.0 card to try that.  No go.  Then I thought, well, that card I bought was pretty cheap, so I bought a Belkin card, the most expensive one, that used the recommended NEC chipset.  STILL I had problems.

So I called the video device's tech support, who thought it was a hardware issue (which seemed likely since the entire computer froze - even the fan stopped spinning).

I called HP and they determined that it was in fact a hardware issue and I sent my PC in for service.

Given the other stresses of computerdom that occurred in those two weeks, I decided that while my snazzy PC was in the shop (for about a week) that would be the perfect opportunity to take a little offline vacation (that, and using the old PC would drive anyone to swear off computers anyway).

Monday I got my PC back and much to my surprise they actually fixed the problem!  So I spent most of Monday re-installing everything and setting it up, yesterday I had work to do that piled up after being away for a week (I did write 70 pages of a screenplay on an old typewriter during my vacation) and finally was able to capture and edit August's two Jeopardy segments this morning.

While my video capture device does do DivX encoding, I found that the file size was comparable to regular MPEG-1 video at VCD settings, and that the mpeg you could play on pretty much any computer while the DivX would require a special driver.

So I pretty much just do everything in MPEG.  

However, the MPEG files for AW's appearances are around 180Mb each, so I have downverted the video into WMV files, which aren't quite as good quality (no where near, actually) but are passable and are only around 50Mb apiece.

Here's a link to each of the two WMV files.  I don't know if Mac users can view these, but let me know if you really want to see these and I can get the MPEGs to you.

(okay, they're still uploading - I'll post the links in about half an hour)
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« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2004, 07:54:48 pm »
Good Lord, Jough!  I wish you hadn't gone to all that expense and trouble.  How very thoughtful of you.  Now I feel obligated to call my hired killer and cancel the contract on your life.
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AugustWest on Jeopardy
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2004, 08:01:37 pm »
Good work, Jough, and thanks!
I have been seeing Celebrity Jeopardy at friend's places and looking forward to seeing proper Jeopardy!
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« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2004, 08:02:29 pm »
What is: Jough having too much time on his hands?
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« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2004, 08:29:28 pm »
Yeah, well.

I've been wanting a video capture device for awhile now anyway - this was just the opportunity to actually put it to good use.

I didn't expect to find out that I had a hardware problem - but I guess I'm glad I found out the hard drive was failing *before* it failed.

Okay, as promised, here's the WMV links.  My local station cut off both the beginning and the end of the first show - it comes in right where I started it, and they didn't run the credits - just loads of commercials and then right into Wheel of Fortune.  The second show has both the intro and closing credits, though.

August on Jeopardy, Day 1:
http://achewood.plagiarist.com/jeopardy/AugustWest1.wmv

Day 2:
http://achewood.plagiarist.com/jeopardy/AugustWest2.wmv

If you want to download them rather than stream them, go to http://achewood.plagiarist.com/jeopardy/ and right-click and select "Save as..."


Enjoy. :D
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« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2004, 10:02:23 pm »
Good stuff, I never got to see the second episode.  Though I'm not sure the students from New Jersey appreciated Alex's opening comment..
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« Reply #6 on: May 26, 2004, 10:12:52 pm »
Well, at least they're not smart enough to have been offended.
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AugustWest on Jeopardy
« Reply #7 on: May 26, 2004, 10:41:23 pm »
That's definitely epic, Jough.  Many thanks.
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« Reply #8 on: May 27, 2004, 01:58:18 pm »
Holy Crap!

I was watching this episode of Jeopardy and wondering " I wonder when August will be on.  Actually that could be him right there."  I had no idea what August's real name was, but I have to admit I never watch Jeopardy, so it's a bit of a creepy coincidence that he was on the one episode I pause to watch a bit of!
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« Reply #9 on: May 27, 2004, 05:48:06 pm »
I actually just recorded those two just for the fuck of it, and then found out that August was on it.  What are the odds? ;)
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AugustWest on Jeopardy
« Reply #10 on: June 04, 2004, 08:12:51 pm »
Huh.

Well, people have downloaded August's videos over 300 times.

Is everyone done with them?  I'd like to take them down.
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« Reply #11 on: June 04, 2004, 08:22:58 pm »
300 times?  Whoa.
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« Reply #12 on: June 04, 2004, 08:38:43 pm »
you should have charged
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« Reply #13 on: June 05, 2004, 08:00:15 pm »
Jough, what kind of editor did you get for this? I have some files that I want to snip bits out of but the only thing I have right now is Windows Movie Maker which is highly clumsy and slow.
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« Reply #14 on: June 05, 2004, 10:45:19 pm »
You know, I was using Adobe Premier but found it ponderous and hard to use.

For these I just used the crappy "WinDVD Creator" software that came with the video capture device.  It sucks, but it's easy to use, fast, and lets you easily mark key frames to segment video.
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