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Return to Innocence
Is up and running on a new server! Giant thanks to Sea for hosting it. It's now accessible! No more bandwidth trouble. That was so damn frustrating. So go check it out! Di totally redid the site and it looks amazing! And there are a ton of vids!
So I know I just posted a HL vid, and it got me thinking about my first brush with vidding. Now this goes back years. Before I had internet. Before I knew there was such a thing as fan vids. And it all started with Highlander the Series. So this is going back...to mid nineties I'd say. Anyway, I always loved the idea of scenes set to music. This started by having the tv on but the volume down and the stereo on if it was an episode I'd seen and didn't actually want to watch again. And I was like, 'Hey! This opens things up to whole new meanings. Imagine if I could create it the way I wanted...'.
And then began Lenna's adventures with hooking up two VCRs and a playstation (for the music) to her TV. And it worked. I didn't create anything I'd now call a fan vid...but I certainly created some...interesting stuff. I experimented with looping scenes, and slow motion, and editing took forever. I could only keep the recording VCR on pause for a total of five minutes before it would shut down, so I had a tiny window to quickly get to the right scenes on the playing VCR. Because once the recording VCR went off pause I'd lose the seamless scene change. And timing things was a nightmare. But I loved it. I think I still have the tapes in storage... God knows what the hell I did back then. I remember a few specific things, but I know I've forgotten a lot. And I'm not even going to mention my foray into the wonderful world of crossovers...Duncan MacCleod meets Xena, anyone?
So yeah, once I discovered online fan vids I knew I had to learn how to do it. And thanks to di_br I did.
Is up and running on a new server! Giant thanks to Sea for hosting it. It's now accessible! No more bandwidth trouble. That was so damn frustrating. So go check it out! Di totally redid the site and it looks amazing! And there are a ton of vids!
So I know I just posted a HL vid, and it got me thinking about my first brush with vidding. Now this goes back years. Before I had internet. Before I knew there was such a thing as fan vids. And it all started with Highlander the Series. So this is going back...to mid nineties I'd say. Anyway, I always loved the idea of scenes set to music. This started by having the tv on but the volume down and the stereo on if it was an episode I'd seen and didn't actually want to watch again. And I was like, 'Hey! This opens things up to whole new meanings. Imagine if I could create it the way I wanted...'.
And then began Lenna's adventures with hooking up two VCRs and a playstation (for the music) to her TV. And it worked. I didn't create anything I'd now call a fan vid...but I certainly created some...interesting stuff. I experimented with looping scenes, and slow motion, and editing took forever. I could only keep the recording VCR on pause for a total of five minutes before it would shut down, so I had a tiny window to quickly get to the right scenes on the playing VCR. Because once the recording VCR went off pause I'd lose the seamless scene change. And timing things was a nightmare. But I loved it. I think I still have the tapes in storage... God knows what the hell I did back then. I remember a few specific things, but I know I've forgotten a lot. And I'm not even going to mention my foray into the wonderful world of crossovers...Duncan MacCleod meets Xena, anyone?
So yeah, once I discovered online fan vids I knew I had to learn how to do it. And thanks to di_br I did.