Yes, I agree, I always thought Dr Warren was going to be as Astrid-type assistant too, except, like, probably even more assistant-like than Astrid who is at least part of the FBI. I'm not sure she had three doctorates specifically but she had three "advanced physics degrees" at least one of which must have been a doctorate. Pretty impressive stuff and I Really loved that she got to be religious without being a kook.
I also completely understand the simultaneous desire and inability to give them the benefit of the doubt re: Peter's importance. They haven't failed yet but I'm just...I don't know. I have a horrible sense of waiting. And I feel if I give up my cynicism, I'll be let down even more badly, or will justify things that aren't worth justifying, but if I hold onto my cynicism, I'm being unfair to the story since they haven't, strictly, earned that cynicism from me? OH WELL. I guess we'll have to wait and see...
As to Olivia's avoidance, I'm not certain but I got the impression it was a very short time later. Her words about not knowing yet if she was going to tell Broyles suggested to me that she hadn't seen Broyles yet or decided anything which would be a bit weird if they had been working cases with this big elephant in the room - not to mention Peter. The trailer for next week looks like it starts to deal with that kind of thing so my assumption is that this episode occurred very shortly afterwards. Although since Walter was trying to get in touch with her if I had to put a time frame on it I'd guess at the following evening or something?
WMM! Unfortunately I can't help with the DVD ripping issue since I'm not an expert on that and I don't know what program you're using anyway. :( But I'm glad that my explanation at least made sense!
As to the overlays, you can get a custom plugin for WMM that lets you do overlays. The problem is that because it's not a two-track setup, the overlays are basically done as transitions, which means that during the transition, you just...see both tracks at once. The plugin offers a variety of opacity levels as different transitions. The problem therein is that the overlay clip just cuts in immediately rather than fading in which often looks very abrupt.
The only way I found around that was to:
1) choose the clip onto which you want to put an overlay.
2) render that clip with an overlay, being careful to note the timestamps.
3) reimport the clip with the overlay. Put it on the timeline next to the original clip. Fade between the original clip and the clip with the overlay, making sure you're fading between "identical" points in the clip.
i.e. if the original clip is 1.00 seconds long, you could cut the first 0.10 seconds off the front of the overlay clip, then overlap the two from 0.10 seconds into the original clip. So in effect, you're fading between the exact same frames in each instance, except, one has an overlay, so this gives the illusion of fading in and out of an overlay.
As you can see, even if that made sense to you (again, words + vidding = argh!), it's incredibly fiddly which is why I never bothered much. But it is possible.
I wrote up some stuff I learned warring with WMM including some stuff about places you can get custom effects/plugins for it here:
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I also completely understand the simultaneous desire and inability to give them the benefit of the doubt re: Peter's importance. They haven't failed yet but I'm just...I don't know. I have a horrible sense of waiting. And I feel if I give up my cynicism, I'll be let down even more badly, or will justify things that aren't worth justifying, but if I hold onto my cynicism, I'm being unfair to the story since they haven't, strictly, earned that cynicism from me? OH WELL. I guess we'll have to wait and see...
As to Olivia's avoidance, I'm not certain but I got the impression it was a very short time later. Her words about not knowing yet if she was going to tell Broyles suggested to me that she hadn't seen Broyles yet or decided anything which would be a bit weird if they had been working cases with this big elephant in the room - not to mention Peter. The trailer for next week looks like it starts to deal with that kind of thing so my assumption is that this episode occurred very shortly afterwards. Although since Walter was trying to get in touch with her if I had to put a time frame on it I'd guess at the following evening or something?
WMM! Unfortunately I can't help with the DVD ripping issue since I'm not an expert on that and I don't know what program you're using anyway. :( But I'm glad that my explanation at least made sense!
As to the overlays, you can get a custom plugin for WMM that lets you do overlays. The problem is that because it's not a two-track setup, the overlays are basically done as transitions, which means that during the transition, you just...see both tracks at once. The plugin offers a variety of opacity levels as different transitions. The problem therein is that the overlay clip just cuts in immediately rather than fading in which often looks very abrupt.
The only way I found around that was to:
1) choose the clip onto which you want to put an overlay.
2) render that clip with an overlay, being careful to note the timestamps.
3) reimport the clip with the overlay. Put it on the timeline next to the original clip. Fade between the original clip and the clip with the overlay, making sure you're fading between "identical" points in the clip.
i.e. if the original clip is 1.00 seconds long, you could cut the first 0.10 seconds off the front of the overlay clip, then overlap the two from 0.10 seconds into the original clip. So in effect, you're fading between the exact same frames in each instance, except, one has an overlay, so this gives the illusion of fading in and out of an overlay.
As you can see, even if that made sense to you (again, words + vidding = argh!), it's incredibly fiddly which is why I never bothered much. But it is possible.
I wrote up some stuff I learned warring with WMM including some stuff about places you can get custom effects/plugins for it here:
http://beccatoria.livejournal.com/68259.html#cutid4
In case any of that's useful. :)