YAY Vividcon
I'm officially in! I wasn't all that worried about making it in since I was #1 on the waitlist, but it's good to know for sure. I signed up for a Club Vivid song, so hopefully this will be the year I see a vid of mine premiere at Vividcon. *boogies* If I have time, I might even try to squeeze out a Premiere vid, but I'm not going to stress about it
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Whoooooooooooooooo hoooooooooooooooooooo!!! That's awesome! :D :D :D I can't wait to see it...
And yay, for submitting 'Objection (Tango)' to Con.txt. :D Very cool! And you deserve every bit of praise for that brilliant, brilliant vid which I just watched for the fiftieth time. :D
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I just watched for the fiftieth time
*hearts you* x one billion
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I have the vidding bug soooo bad at the moment, but with guests staying it's terrible! I'm always trying to sneak time on my laptop! And of course I've chosen now to start a mammoth Lex vid. I'm just at that point where I'm beginning to see just what a huge task I've undertaken... eep!
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Ohhhh. Are you doing all 7 seasons of Lex, or are you limiting it? Just to give you an idea, "Cobrastyle" took 2 months of prep work just to get the clips I needed. Of course, I was looking for very specific sorts of clips--ones with movement--so it might not take someone else as long. I find that putting all the work in at the front end is tedious, but makes the actual "editing" process go very quickly. What's your process at the beginning stages?
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I used to work with the vob files directly in FCP and I just sifted through and clipped within the editing program. But I've just moved to a new system (*bites nails*) where I clip in MPEG Streamclip first. So there's a much more defined 'sourcing' period for me now. I'm excited about what it will mean in terms of shininess of end vid, but I'm also daunted by the lack of flexibility. I used to vid very very organically and switch back and forth between editing and clipping... but using vob files rendering took a long time. So yes, I do think the editing stage will be much faster. If my patience lasts!
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Oh? I would think that exporting directly from the VOB file would get you the shiniest end product. Is that not true, then?
I used to vid very very organically and switch back and forth between editing and clipping
Ah, I tried that with "James Bonde" because it was such a short vid and I had so few episodes to work with. But it ended up making me very nervous. When I clip, I scrub through the episodes twice. First I go through in VirtualDubMod and clip around the sections that I'm sure I'll need, and then I'll clip again once I'm in the editing program. That's when I'll go through with a fine-toothed comb and I catch a lot of incidental little clips that I never would have thought of initially. When I was trying to clip and edit at the same time, I was constantly worried that I was missing some really cool clip.
But I agree, it takes patience, when all you really want to do is get to the fun stuff.
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Well, you would, wouldn't you... and it kinda is. Except I only know one method of exporting with them and while it's worked ok until now, it's kinda clunky in terms of aspect ratio and the black bars top and bottom. And it makes a nice small file but the quality could maybe be better? There are probably ways around this that I just don't know, but I found a tutorial for this method and it's so far looking very very shiny.
First I go through in VirtualDubMod and clip around the sections that I'm sure I'll need, and then I'll clip again once I'm in the editing program.Mmm, that's what I find I'm doing now. One of my anxieties about this new method is that I'm not really sure how clips will look until I try it, so I may spend a lot of time clipping stuff I don't end up using. *bites nails* Not sure! So far I've sifted three seasons and am working with that to do what I can and at least get a vague feel of whether ( ... )
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Yeah, that's a real possibility. There's tons of stuff I clip that I never end up using. But my philosophy is better too much than too little.
I've sifted three seasons and am working with that to do what I can
See, I couldn't do that because once I start editing, I never want to go back to clipping. I would just end up making a vid with only those 3 seasons. Which is kinda what happened with "Tango". I started clipping seasons 6 and 7, got distracted by all of the pretty footage, and wanted to start editing right away. I never did get around to clipping the other seasons as I had initially intended to do. :)
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Hee! Well it wasn't a bad thing for Tango...
In this case I'm (reasonably) safe because there's some really specific imagery I need later on that I must retrieve. But I do know what you mean. Editing is waaaaay more fun, and since I'm used to breaking up the monotony, I'm finding the clipping hard work. But on the other hand, I've found some stuff I think could be really good if I can work it right. I think my main thing is I'm insecure with a vid until I've laid down a bar or two that I really like and so can reassure myself that it IS going to work in some form. But anyway, I've sort of done that now. And vidding Lex is LOTS of fun. Although already the vid is morphing into something other than what I expected... I thought it would be (darkly) Clex-y in focus, but it's turning out to be very much about Lex and Lionel. Hmmm. I don't think this is a bad thing, I'm just not sure why I didn't realise it earlier.
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Isn't it, though? I love Clark to little bits, but he's is nowhere near as expressive as Lex is.
I thought it would be (darkly) Clex-y in focus, but it's turning out to be very much about Lex and Lionel
Ah, yeah, I can see that happening. After all, Lionel is responsible for so much of the darkness in Lex.
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