So, I went on my family's computer last night only to discover that all of my files have been mysteriously deleted. That's right, ALL of them. It doesn't even have any of my settings saved. When I opened my account, it was like it was a brand new account with a generic background and everything. My Manga Studio files that I hadn't transfered yet? Gone. All gone. I'm glad I backed up most of the important stuff though. I can get comic images off of Smack Jeeves at least. Just can't edit them easily.

Why did it delete them? No idea. I was on a few days ago and it was fine. Computers just hate me right now.

A couple of you out there subscribe to my YouTube account. And maybe even some of you watch my Spyro the Dragon Audio commentaries. You can often hear me complain about having to edit out "glitches." Ever wonder what those are? I've never gone into detail in the videos. Basically, while editing the video in Windows Movie Maker, for some reason beyond my understanding, the video will just pause. Movie Maker just pauses without being told to. If I try to save the movie file so I can load it to YouTube with those "glitches" in the video, it will get to the a certain point, and then stop saving it all together. In order to "fix" this, I have to cut ten seconds before the glitch, and ten seconds after. So twenty seconds total for each glitch. Usually, that's how it works. Sometimes I have to cut out more.

Why does Movie Maker do this? No idea. Every other program plays through the video just fine.

But that's not the only problem with Movie Maker. Oh no. That would be far too simple! I mean, afterall, cutting out twenty seconds of footage isn't all that hard. You know what else it does just to tick me off? If I save the project file, and then try to save it as a movie file, (changes the format essentially,) Movie Maker completely freezes on me and has to be shut down. So I reopen it. Then open the project file again. And then, no matter what I do, no matter how I try to open the file, when I try to save it as a movie file, Movie Maker leaves a part of a menu bar on my screen. It always does this in that order! The only way to get that image off my screen is to restart or shut down my computer. It shows up no matter where I go.

One of these times I should take a picture of my screen so you can see what I mean.

So yeah, me and Windows Movie Maker are not friends. I am planning on upgrading my video editor A.S.A.P.

Is this the end of my current computer troubles? Sort of yes, and sort of no. A few days ago, I loaded a recording of me making a Gotta Past page onto YouTube. (If you want to see it: [link] ) I used music from Pokemon the First Movie's score. It shows me that it has matched the third part content. Awesome. Just means it knows where the music came from. That's fine, it comes up with an ad of where you can download the music yourself. I have disclaimers for the music, I am claiming to ownership to it, I'm not making money off it or nothin'. It's just for entertainment.

I want to make a video of editing a page from each of my comics. (I just do.) So I recorded me editing a Just Gotta page. (One that actually hasn't even gone up yet, *cough.*) I decided to put different music to this one. I used a song from the First Movie's other soundtrack, and a Backstreet Boys song. I save the movie file, and upload it to YouTube. I am then informed that my I'm somehow breaking a copyright and the audio has been disabled.

Ugh!

So I change the music back to songs from the score. Music from that worked before, so it should work again. The footage is like an hour long, (before it's sped up,) and so for Movie Maker to save the movie files takes a long time. (And yes, I got menu's stuck on my screen while making these videos!) It took like an hour or so to save it the first time, so it took another hour to save it with the new music. I put up the new video.

The audio is disabled. AGAIN.

Can we at least be consistant with the rules, please? You can't let me use music from a CD on one video, and then not use it on another! It doesn't make any sense! The same CD has the same copyright. So why the crap does it make a difference on the new video!?

So that video is up to, but with no stupid audio. I don't care enough to fix it at the moment. Just less of an entertaining watch.

Computers hate me right now, and I hate them. Except for Manga Studio. Manga Studio is my friend. It always works the way I want it to. I love you Manga Studio!! And at least my laptop isn't deleting my files for no reason. I love my laptop too!!

Computers and websites are awesome when they work right.

In some good news, being the Sony fangirl I am, I have decided it is time to buy a PS3. I'm going to get on the day after Thanksgiving. Call me nuts, but there's a good buy for one. And the new video editing program I am currently eyeing? Made by Sony. I will probably look into it a bit and maybe see if there's a free trial, but I likes Sony!

Right now I hate Movie Maker so much I might take just about anything . . .

Well, I think I am going to go play with my new Pokemon team. I am going through Diamond, but this time, I'm not going to let my Pokemon evolve. It'll be a new challenge for me! We'll see how it goes, heh. I will probably evolve them eventually though, like right before the Elite Four or somethin'. We'll see. At least my DS is still on my side too!