So. I had a game listed as a PHILDD game, which of course meant I liked it enough to settle for it not being a very out of reach modern game. I looked at the script I was writing scenes in and there were some pretty great events.

Then I looked at how many pages one of the big setpiece events was.

Ten.

At a minute per page, that is not a cutscene, that is 1⁄10 of a movie. And there was no way to cut it down.

So thanks to #Fountain format and #FadeIn, I was able to start converting it all into a novel instead. I #AmWriting something kind of novel and exciting: a novel couched in the language of video games.

It's not the first I've novelized a video game. I did that for Final Fantasy. And I've also done a bit on one where it was a video game. But never without a genre-aware player.

I'm going to enjoy this. The biggest problem, I think, is establishing in the first few pages what I'm doing. But that feels like a fun challenge. :)

@SharonCrockett

Build a printer that paints a single dot, one by one inch maybe, entirely by GPS, with restoring this art as its entire purpose. Attach the printer under many cars. It should only do one dot a pass on rhe street so the painting should never be noticed.

Never noticed.

The BLACK LIVES MATTER should fade in, over a long time.

#fadeIn #BLM #Printer #inch #gps

Und ich weiß leider nicht mehr, woher ich diese #AudioEngineering-Protips habe, aber:
1. (Linearen Standard-)Einblendeeffekt in der Regel mehr als einmal anwenden! Das erzeugt wahlweise eine Einblendung mit quadratischer, kubischer oder höherer Lautstärkekurve, was sich angenehmer anhört. Und man kann so auch viel kürzere #FadeIn-Intervalle riskieren (<0,5s!), gerade in sehr laute Passagen hinein, ohne dass das Ohr der Zuhörenden schmerzt oder es unnatürlich wirkt.

"Come See About Me" is a 1964 song recorded by #theSupremes for the #Motown label. The track opens with a #fadein, marking one of the first times the technique had been used on a studio recording. The song became third of five consecutively released Supremes songs to top the #Billboard pop singles chart in the United States (the others being "#WhereDidOurLoveGo", "#BabyLove", "#StopInTheNameOfLove" and "#BackInMyArmsAgain"). It topped the chart twice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PycKSdKG_74

New blog post!

☆Fade In review☆

Let me just say this: I love Trelby. But I've outgrown it. If you're getting started with screenwriting, start with Trelby. It hasn't updated in years, but it's FOSS and will teach you the essentials.
Fade In sounded like it was going to do more of what I wanted and it's a fraction of the price of Final Dra... https://blog.bluestarcreations.net/blues-reviews/fade-in-review/

#BluesReviews #FadeIn #screenwriting #scriptwriting #software #writing

New blog post!

☆Daydreams (Dreams by Van Halen parody)☆

FADE IN:

INT. REGISTER AREA - DAY

DJ is working a cash register wearing something as close as
possible to his normal shades, but they're glasses with
thick lenses and he looks SUPER dorky. He scans the items
for a stereotypical KAREN.

DJ
... https://blog.bluestarcreations.net/jerako-pizza/daydreams-dreams-by-van-halen-parody/

#JerakoPizza #FadeIn #music #MusicVideo #parody #retail #script #song #writing

#FadeIn absolutely needs work for that novel plugin, but once you finesse your existing writing into it, I feel like it's worth it. As manuscripts go, yes, it's easy to mark up, but it's 8½×11" and a real book is going to be like half that, so you really are doing yourself a favor.

It's great to start in, but full of nasty surprises to convert to. That said, I think I might actually put First Fantasy in it just to see how it holds up, because doing it alerted me to a lot of silly mistakes in what I'm working on. Made it obvious where I was rambling and could pare things down.

I was able to finesse an early novel project into #FadeIn, but let me tell you, going from LibreOffice to Fade In with the novel plugin takes some doing. First saved it as .RTF, had to go back and fix all the fancy quotes, then used RTF2BBCode, then massaged that manually into Fountain format in Notepad++ and cleaned up a mess that LibreOffice left in the formatting, then Fountain didn't even import properly, so more cleaning. There was cleanup at every step. And even after that all the ellipses got lost, so I had to manually find them as a control character in Notepad++ and replace them with triple periods and from there is was just easier to manually add them.

Being honest, what I actually write in looks quite a bit more like Fountain format. That said... Last night I kind of just hated how it looked in novel format, couldn't read it properly, and felt it was too much like a paper to be marked up, but I came around to it this morning. I feel like the limits will make my writing better.

So.

#Trelby has been great, but it has some limitations and it's just a little fiddly and it hasn't been updated literally since I found it. It has GitHub bugs from 2023 untouched. For free, it's great. There were just more things I wanted to do.

#FadeIn is immediately robust, supposedly lets you copy the look and feel of multiple other software suites including Trelby (I didn't actually notice much difference between "Trelby" and "default"), and while it doesn't directly import Trelby files, you can use multiple types as an intermediate. It's hassleware, but I liked the demo so much I used the hassle to buy, and registration is a breeze. If I had to compare it to anything, it would be WordPad, which is perfect for me. Minimal distraction; quick access to the basics. It's $80 on sale right now.

"Come See About Me" is a 1964 song recorded by #theSupremes for the #Motown label. The track opens with a #fadein, marking one of the first times the technique had been used on a studio recording. The song became third of five consecutively released Supremes songs to top the Billboard pop singles chart in the United States (the others being "#WhereDidOurLoveGo", "#BabyLove", "#StopInTheNameOfLove" and "#BackInMyArmsAgain"). It topped the chart twice, non-consecutively.
https://youtu.be/mBnzV5kQnDw

#FADEIN is my FAVORITE script editor! I highly recommend it to amateur AND professional screenwriters! If you have an idea for a screenplay, INVEST in FADE IN! Final Draft Compatible! :D

@fadein

#MarkusMcLaughlin

#FADEINSoftware

#WGAStrong

#bitwig #studio #grid - simply trick for #fadein modulation

I'm using the demo version of #FadeIn #software to write my new #screenplay and so far I'm really enjoying it. Very bare bones (in a productive, non-distracting way!) and intuitive. I think I'll be purchasing the full version pretty soon.

#screenwriting

We are looking for software to #silence a part of #MP3 files without re-encoding other parts (and thus degrading quality/integrity).

Any suggestions?

Bonus points if the software can produce #bleeping sounds too, not just silence. There was freeware many, many years ago called #mp3Trim, which could cut #mp3Files and could add #fadeIn and #fadeOut. It seemed to change discreet blocks of the mp3 file. You couldn't select precise times.

#AskFedi #foss #softwareRecomendation #GNULinux #lossy