Episode 12

People keep asking me about episode 12. "When's it coming out?" Like I say whenever anybody asks me this about any episode, be it episode 12, 13, or 102, I DO NOT KNOW WHEN IT IS COMING OUT. It's funny because I get all these emails and messages that all say the same thing, and I read them all, and reading them all (and sometimes replying) takes time away from working on episode 12! And you wonder why it takes so long!

Okay actually, here's the bad news. I got a new laptop because I thought it would help make video production go faster. You know, better video card = the game AND the video editing software performing better, right? Wrong. Sigh. The new laptop has Vista, and I just discovered that my trusty video editing software, Ulead VideoStudio 7, does not work with Vista. There's some audio error that they never bothered to make a patch for Vista, since version 7 is from like 6 years ago and they have newer versions of the software that they want you to shell out big bucks for instead. So okay, I have Pinnacle Studio 9, which is newer and works with Vista, and I've used it some, but it's like getting a new car... it takes time to get used to where all the stuff is, and some things are just not the same. I have a harder time matching audio to video with Pinnacle. I might just have to pull my hair out, yo.

Besides that, I was doing some test videos (ie clips from Sims 2), and when I viewed them, everybody was tall and skinny. What the...? So I've been playing around with screen resolutions and stuff, but it's frustrating. The only thing that has worked so far is to set my computer's resolution to 720x1040 or whatever, same with the Sims game. But since I have a widescreen computer, everything looks warped in the game. OH I DON'T KNOW. I'll keep working at it. You'll know if I succeeded if episode 12 comes out and Ella doesn't look like an emaciated popsicle stick. This = success.