Vidding update

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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.

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

Comments

The never-ending vid discussion...

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>Well, as long as you put a clip in with exactly the same amount of frames it shouldn't screw up the timing. Despite the problems with exact cropping mentioned above - the seven frame issue is only at the *end* or at the *beginning* of the clip. So just make sure you've got a longer clip and you're cutting out the middle section (more than seven frames away from either end.)

Errrrr... but

1.) if I cut out a middle section bit, it will interrupt the movement in the clip, and

2.) are you sure it's possible to cut less than seven frames there? Because I have no idea how you would go about doing that. The only way I know to remove bits from the middle of clips is by using the 'split' function and then cropping the resulting clips, or removing a bit that lies between two splits.

Maybe we need to have that phone call now...

>You may also have noticed that when you cut a frame at, say, 1.63s, the clip itself will say it's only 1.59s. You usually end up losing about 4 frames (and no I can't explain why).

Are you sure it's four? I think it's seven for me.