MAZU FAQ
Here's questions that have been answered time and time again based on what some people are willing to ask.
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Why aren't you using YouTube? It's a better and more reliable site than the alternatives you use. |
| YouTube is
not a good platform simply put. While the alternatives I use fail in
reliablity, I'm well prepared in case one of my platforms goes down
(for example, Vanillo). YouTube has been known for multiple controversies such as them mishandling COPPA, them not being fair to people who make money off their videos directly on the site that isn't a part of a multibillion dollar corpration, or sells out to be "advertiser friendly" meaning people have to censor their videos to hell and back in order to rely on their otherwise unreliable source of income they'll lose if they dare use a slightly offending word, removing features just because its not on the mobile version, among other reasons, as well Google's enshitification on the platform that includes their staff, and so many more reasons to list. The platforms I use while not perfect, at least bring features that were removed from YouTube such as visible dislikes for example, along with channel blogs that directly show subscribers what the channel has to update. |
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What video editing software do you use
and how did you make these drawings/animations?
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| I use Vegas
Pro 16/18 (16 just because the BCC Effects don't work, and 18 is
otherwise good in certain features). I use Krita for drawing a lot of my stuff as well as for animating. Paint.NET is used to add the text bubbles. The SAPI-TV Characters were made using PowerPoint but animated in Vegas. I am not the first to do this, TTS Creators have used PowerPoint in their work (i.e. nkrs200, TheROFL98, etc.) Blender is used for a lot of the CGI stuff. |
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Do you use those Windows made by Microsoft, an expensive Mac
by these iFruits, or one of those Linux things that penguins use
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| I use a PC
that runs Windows 11 (albiet the bloatware removed), plus I would use
Linux if it wasn't for the fact that the programs I use rely on a thing
called the .NET Framework, it only works on Windows (Vegas and Paint.NET). The SAPI-TV Characters were made in PowerPoint. For the Mac stuff (like the MacinTalk Voices in SAPI-TV), I use a VM for that (running on Mac OS Mojave), if it's older Mac stuff, Mac Emulators for these PowerPC-based versions prior to the Intel versions (Anything from Macintosh System 7.1.2 to Mac OS X Tiger) I may use Linux for some stuff in the future (at least Krita is based on a Linux-operating environment, that being KDE) |
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Will there be Error Requests in SAPI-TV? |
| The short
answer is no. The long answer is NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! The reason I refuse to do error requests for SAPI-TV should be quite simple. I’ve, of course, concluded that it has become such a joke within the community at this point, where request whores tend to constantly complain whenever someone doesn’t accept an error. Y’know, the whole “damn kids” shtick that people tend to call it. It’s also because I doubt a majority would understand that this is not like most other TTS series in general, and if I don’t have any ideas for errors for a SAPI-TV episode, I can simply not do Error Time and figure out an alternative. It’s a lot simpler than just getting other people to do the errors for me and having the segment suffer more or less because of the errors. I’m not saying the concept of accepting error requests is a bad thing, since some good errors can come out of it; it’s just that I prefer to only include my own errors if I have any good ones, and my quantity is that, so it’s only 5 errors per SAPI-TV episode after all. My only exception is maybe for a special episode, but that’s it. I call the shots with this series anyway, so it’s up to me at the end of the day regarding what I want. |
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