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DVD writer + K. Wasabi video and pic spam

September 19, 2008 6:58 PM

Tags: DVD writer, gigs, K. Wasabi, Lee Hyori, Mac, Maru, pictures, Shabby, The Beatles, The String Quartet, tributes, videos

Feeling: rushed rushed

I notice there’s always something bad bound to happen at least once a week. After Allie’s death early this month, my DVD writer shattered a CD into a lot of pieces rendering it useless.

Of course it’s not as bad as Allie’s death. I only had no budget for it being that it happened so suddenly. I was planning on buying a memory card for the PSP even.

I inserted an OLD mp3 CD inside the DVD writer. I eventually got busy Plurking, so I have no idea how many minutes passed. Then I heard a bang that I thought was my battery charger since I was charging the digicam’s battery that night. I checked my plugged gadgets, the lights, and even the kitchen. I didn’t see anything wrong. Wanting to forget about it, I carried on to looking for mp3s to upload for the band. I opened my DVD writer and there I saw where the bang came from. The writer over-spun the CD. I read that it happens when there are cracks in the middle of the CD, too dirty, or it isn’t meant for fast DVD-roms.

I opened the DVD writer in hopes it will work fine as long as CD pieces were removed. I couldn’t remove all of them. The writer wouldn’t close anymore even, so it was goodbye. I got a new one the second day after the incident happened. I had to buy right away because you all know I download like mad.

I now use a Samsung again. My old DVD writer was only with me for less than 2 years. WTF!?

I finally got copies of the videos and pictures of our Aug. 29 gig at One Luv. All thanks to Peli for being our cameraman.

The pictures are yet to be organized while the videos are already up in my Multiply and K. Wasabi’s Facebook page. Embedding them here too for those too lazy to check my Multiply nor their Facebook accounts. Even though it pains me to do so considering I’m conscious about my site’s xhtml validity. XD;

DJs

Do You Right

The guitarist is hiding somewhere in those videos.

I always get the fugly spot on the stage. Well, it’s not much of a big deal because at least people wouldn’t see me guessing chords. HAHAHAHA~

Btw, I learned something new while I edited the videos — compressing the audio! I only know of encoding videos to XVID.

First, I couldn’t figure out how to add LAME ACM compression in VirtualDub. What I only needed to do was install the LAME ACM codec with the other Windows’ audio codecs. Doing that took me some time because I got the wrong file. After getting the correct one, the compression option showed right away on VirtualDub. I quickly compressed the video’s audio at 128. Now one of the 500MB videos is now 60MB. Sweet!

We’ll be having a gig tonight at Bela Bar, so more pictures and videos I hope!

Holga 120CFN photos from last month’s short drinking party with the bandmates + Peli are also up in my Multiply. These are from the night our bassist didn’t show up for our gig at One Luv.