Oh buggery pissflaps!
Don't'cha just hate it when you replace an iPod Nano with an iPod Touch, then months later realise that you've encoded all your videos at optimal resolution... for a nano.
So you end up watching, what looked ace on the Nano, some blocky, blurry pixellated mess.
So, what to do?
Spend hours re-ripping and re-encoding at Touch levels.
And your 6gig rip, that was a 295mb file, is now a 1.2gig file.
So you spend hours adjusting diverse settings and optimizers in the encoder, and who-hoo! You can get the file down to 220mb, which is (a) a larger screen resolution, (b) cleaner and brighter and (c) sounds much better!
So, re-encode them all again!
Brilliant!
Hold on - the addition of 35 Bananarama videos takes ages to scroll through - and the iPod put 'em into alphabetical order, instead of Album order.
I know - Encode as one file with chapters!
Yay!
A million years later, several encodes done!
Nightmare Before Christmas - perfect!
Tim Burton's Vincent - perfect!
Labyrinth - perfect!
Hallowe'en (complete John Carpenter version) - perfect!
Fuzzbox DVD singles - perfect (but can't chapterise, so individual files)!
Jessie J DVD singles - perfect!
Fields of the Nephilim/Nefilim/Rubicon DVD singles - perfect!
And the 33 Nanararmy...
...Oooh, lookin' good! That's really sayin' somethin'
Skip to tight red PVC LadyDevil song... Hold up - the words don't match up proper!
Skip back - Robert DeNiro's waiting... for sound to catch up!
Skip to later tracks - well, everyone's favourite nanas lezzing up track is in synch... which was certainly the last thing on my mind. Although it shouldn't have been, really, what with Keren and Sara. Although if Siobahn had sapphically Stepped in though, well, that's a different kettle of "lip synching" if you know what I mean (and I'm sure that you do. And if you don't, it's scissor sistering synching of labial lips. Obviously).
Or something.
So... somewhere in the middle, it goes all Milli-Vanilli and the lip synching's shot to hell.
Buggey sod blue waffled pissyminge wiped with fannybattered tenaladies.
Looks like another million years of fine tune tinkering.
#GetsInBeforeEveryoneElseWhoExpectsYetAnotherPredictableXymism:
...and by fine tune tinkering, I probably mean some nefarious finger action whilst watching Keren and Sara in that lesbo lezz up video etc etc...
