VR Onward Bullshittery - Update #2

Good evening folks. Another quickie update!

The nesting process this week went very well. Despite being a bit ill with a vaccine fever in the mid-week, the light nature of the "nesting" process meant my work was unaffected.

I now have about 77 highlights drawn from about 17 hours of stream footage. For context, there's usually about 30-40 clips in your typical bullshittery compilation.

Annoyingly, the nature of VR means that it's difficult to find your desk, let alone the Stream Deck with the "mark highlight timestamp" button, in the middle of the stream. So despite excellent note-keeping I felt it best to watch everything carefully. I'm very confident I have all the clips.

My current task is the cutting. Arranging clips on the timeline to make a viable video with an interesting start, middle and end. Trying to match map types so the colour pallet doesn't swing too wildly for the viewer. As in, chaining together night highlights, suburban highlights, snow highlights, etc.

Interestingly, this does accidently showcase the changes in the game engine over time. As one highlight might be followed by another, on the same map, from a VR session three months later. A simple turn of the head suddenly reveals much higher resolution guns, ammo crates, etc. I've noticed it a few times so far.

An interesting quirk of my process, I suppose? The funny moments are grouped by replay value. And not by the date recorded. And since VR streams require moving furniture, it's difficult to convince team mates to do it more than once a week. Hence, big gaps between streams.

So now the plan is to continue the cutting until a viable bullshittery is ready. A process that should take me another couple of days. And then I'll jump straight into the text and animation editing. Everything is going smoothly so far. I anticipate that it should be sorted about 3 weeks from now? 

Editing cracks on. No major fires to speak of tbh!

Hope you're all having a lovely Friday and that your weekend plans go swimmingly.