Analyse this! (My subconscious revealed in dreams.)

Dream #1: Winter in the Ukraine

I am visiting my mother in the Ukraine. She picks me up at the station and bitches about my brother-in-law all the way home in her very crappy car. 'Home' is a flight of dreary-grey rooms filled with nothing but rusty steel-frame beds with bad mattresses where she lives with just my brother-in-law. My brother-in-law occupies himself by cooking huge (and I do mean huge) vats (bathtubs?) of some sort of Russian soup. It's winter, there's snow outside, and he claims soup is the best thing against the cold. We give him hell about the amounts, though. I don't know what my mother is doing in the Ukraine, but somehow I don't bother to ask.

(Notes: I have no personal connection to the Ukraine; nor does my mom. I also don't have a brother-in-law. I don't even have any siblings.)


Dream #2: The Unwanted Dog

Someone gives me a dog. I am not pleased. It runs away. I feel guilty because I worry more about the dog possibly harming my neighbour's cats than about the dog's wellbeing. I don't find the dog again, and am secretly glad.


Dream #3: The Crap Resistance of Possibly France

I am with a group of people - possibly the people from the recent study trip - in a big, modern coach. In France. Possibly. An Evil Regime has just taken power, and apparently we are the resistance. Everyone is looking for us. We drive through tiny villages in our huge bus, feeling far too visible. We talk about stealing a less noticeable car, but no one knows how to do that. We talk about getting weapons, either to defend ourselves, or, possibly, to kill ourselves in case 'they' get us. We're a pretty crap resistance, all told. In one village we meet vaguely sympathetic Farscape fans who are selling fancy handmade candles in the streets, but nothing very useful comes of the encounter. We're still stuck with the coach.


Dream #4: Women Are Evil, I'm a Man And I Live In a Closet (Seriously.)

I am a man. I am hiding in a closet in a room. The room may or may not contain an evil witch/queen/female monster of some description who may or may not know of my presence in the closet. I think she's wearing a blood-red dress. There may be clowns on stilts.

(Notes: I'm in the closet? Really... sometimes my subconscious is both ridiculously literal *and* maddeningly obscure at the same time.)

Huffyuv problems

Having given up on achieving any really precise result in Windows Movie Maker (it keeps subtly de-synching my finished vid when I render it), I am now trying to get started working with Premiere Pro 6.0. Premiere doesn't like my source avi files, so I asked around a bit and people told me to use VirtualDub to convert my source to an avi that would be usable by Premiere, and to use Huffyuv to encode/compress/? (arrgh, I need to learn vidding terminology!) Now, I've played around a bit with the program and the codec, and so far I have two problems:

1.) The file size is *huge*. For a clip of around 1500 frames it can be between 500 and 700 MB. This could turn into a big problem for me soon, as my hard drive really isn't that big. I have around 18 GB free space at the moment, could possibly expand that to around, hm, 30 GB.

2.) The clips play very jerkily, as if a lot of frames are being dropped.

Anyone know what to do?