Vidding update

[hmpf]

Spent roughly fourteen hours vidding today. Am totally knackered and going to bed now. Windows Movie Maker is teh suck, but I'm sort of learning to live with it. Does that sound stoically heroic? Not nearly heroic enough, believe me.

Vid's about two thirds to three fourths done.

Nearly lost my mind a couple of times after the program crashed for the umpteenth time, and learned to hate Tom McRae with a passion, or at least learned to hate his A & B Song, but am pleased with the result of my work so far (when I can stand to look at it at all - because, arrgh, fourteen hours today and six yesterday of constant replay will spoil *any* song for you).

I get the impression my vidding career may end up much like my costuming career: pretty much a once-in-a-lifetime experience. It's simply too much effort. The result is kinda pleasing, but the effort made is disproportionate to the resulting pleasure.

Also, if I were to keep vidding I'd have to get more webspace.

kljfdavn ,.jxy

Sorry, kinda falling asleep on the keyboard there. Off to bed...

Comments

Re: Oookay...

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, that is a problem and one of the reasons I tend to render the finished video often (every ten seconds of footage or so) into a temporary .wmv and watch it so I can fix that sort of problem as I go through, not at the end. But I did have to fix it all at the end once with my first vid and basically it required some creative thinking, and yes, rejigging of the timing (although, ironically, in places I preferred it!)

Obviously you can't cut out the first seven frames. My ideal suggestion would be to locate the piece of footage you used, merge the clip with a few seconds of clip on each side, then recut the thing, but four frames further on (four frames is usually enough to reduce the problem and rarely screws the timing of any movements in the clip *too* much). The key is to remember the seven frame issue is only an issue when clipping from the *beginning* or *end* of a clip. You can clip *anywhere* in the middle of a clip. So just make sure the frame you want to cut to is in the middle of a longer clip.

But if the clip you need to use is so short that's not an option, then...you need to start getting creative, and I can't really help you. It's one of the "joys" of WMM.