Just finished timing Familiar of Zero, volume 1. (Not totally finished, of course, there's all sorts of revision and DVD subtitle generation still to do. But the hard work is over.)

I've judged Louise pretty harshly, and she deserves a lot of that - she's not just violent, but a snotty noble who could stand to have been hit by her parents some more. But I'd definitely glossed over my memories of Saito, who provokes her whenever possible. It strikes me as a very Japanese response to the whole "I've just summoned you and you're now my personal slave" situation - whereas I'd expect an American to run off or fight, Saito (after failing to run off, heh) essentially rolls with it, and goes into a kind of passive-agressive mode to see how much he can piss her off. The fact that Louise has virtually no redeeming characteristics doesn't help - she's one big walking touchy topic.

Ah well. Nine episodes of timing in two weeks - there was a time when I would have counted that to be good work from my full-time job, and now (even without the amazing productivity-enhancing tools that, er, probably led to me getting laid off in the first place) I can knock it out in my spare time on the weekends. Some of that's experience, some of it's better tools - we've come a long way from the genlock-and-two-VCR routine. (For pure timing, the fan-made tools are actually superior - the real problem is that those tools aren't capable of dealing with the timecode of professional video production work, and the professional tools that DO are either much less user-friendly, or fantastically expensive.)

I still have more fun working on Nanoha, though...

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