>I'm really impressed with what you've done with this so far...it's shaping up to be a very mature first video.
Thanks! I'm really impressed that I managed to impress you! ;-) You're one of the vidders at whose altar I worship every night my vidding heroes. ;-) Just had another look at 'Time Ends', and now that I know a little bit more about editing I can really see every hour that went into that. It's amazing. So are your other vids. Which reminds me that I still have the two most recent ones sitting unwatched on my disk, somewhere in the black hole that is my 7.43 GB 'unwatched Farscape fanvids' folder. I think I downloaded them and then got distracted by some shiny new obsession... need to watch them now! (As well as the rest of those 7.43 GB. Eeeeek! How much disk space that could free up! But then, of course, I would have to hunt down the next batch - as my latest ones are from November 2005 or so, there's bound to be hundreds of new ones again... *is an insane Farscape fanvid completist*)
>The thing that strikes me most is that you have excellent instincts when it comes to using the motion already inherent in clips -- be it camera pans or action of actors/objects in the shot. This is something that I feel a lot of vidders don't fully exploit...it's already there, so make the most of it (the vid I'm working on now is largely a big motion whoring experiment, so I've been like a kid in a candy store playing with it)! You're doing that with great attention to the music.
I'm really glad you noticed that, as that is the main thing I tried to do with this vid. It's not so much instinct as conscious deliberation, really - I've been an avid watcher of fanvids for a long time, and after a couple of years (sometime in 2002, I think?) I began to analyse why I liked some vids, and some moments in those vids, better than others. And well-used internal motion was one of the main 'wow' factors I noticed. I agree that it's often underused, and IMO it's one of the most effective 'tricks' you have as a vidder. Rhythm and motion simply *belong* together.
I'm really looking forward to seeing your 'big motion whoring experiment'! *g*
>I see you've already chosen to upgrade editing software, and I hope that eliminates a lot of the headaches you've had with WMM.
So far it mostly looks as if I've replaced one set of headaches with another. ;-) But I won't give up so easily.
>I agree with how you've used them here...the shouting clips work for me.
Thanks. Hmm... I think there are only two clips that bother me: the one I cut to the 'Hotel California' line, and the one where he's talking a bit on the phone. I'll have to rewatch the ep the 'Hotel California' clip is from again, I guess. *Maybe* there's a clip of Sam and his mum that does *not* involve either of them talking.
>And to encourage you further, I had heard about Life On Mars, but sort of forgotten that I wanted to procure it...until I watched your draft, which re-focused my attention ;) Off to give it a whirl now...
You do that! It's a great show, and in some ways very compatible with the interests of Farscape fans, I think. It certainly has the culture shock down!
>OH! Time spent on vids. I am not the right person to be saying what's "normal," but it seems that (looking at your past posts) this has come together pretty darn quickly! This from the slowest of the slow.
Yeah, well, it was only 74 clips and no effects except for a couple of fades. I can see that your vids are vastly more complex than that, so I would expect them to take longer... :-)
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Thanks! I'm really impressed that I managed to impress you! ;-) You're one of
the vidders at whose altar I worship every nightmy vidding heroes. ;-) Just had another look at 'Time Ends', and now that I know a little bit more about editing I can really see every hour that went into that. It's amazing. So are your other vids. Which reminds me that I still have the two most recent ones sitting unwatched on my disk, somewhere in the black hole that is my 7.43 GB 'unwatched Farscape fanvids' folder. I think I downloaded them and then got distracted by some shiny new obsession... need to watch them now! (As well as the rest of those 7.43 GB. Eeeeek! How much disk space that could free up! But then, of course, I would have to hunt down the next batch - as my latest ones are from November 2005 or so, there's bound to be hundreds of new ones again... *is an insane Farscape fanvid completist*)>The thing that strikes me most is that you have excellent instincts when it comes to using the motion already inherent in clips -- be it camera pans or action of actors/objects in the shot. This is something that I feel a lot of vidders don't fully exploit...it's already there, so make the most of it (the vid I'm working on now is largely a big motion whoring experiment, so I've been like a kid in a candy store playing with it)! You're doing that with great attention to the music.
I'm really glad you noticed that, as that is the main thing I tried to do with this vid. It's not so much instinct as conscious deliberation, really - I've been an avid watcher of fanvids for a long time, and after a couple of years (sometime in 2002, I think?) I began to analyse why I liked some vids, and some moments in those vids, better than others. And well-used internal motion was one of the main 'wow' factors I noticed. I agree that it's often underused, and IMO it's one of the most effective 'tricks' you have as a vidder. Rhythm and motion simply *belong* together.
I'm really looking forward to seeing your 'big motion whoring experiment'! *g*
>I see you've already chosen to upgrade editing software, and I hope that eliminates a lot of the headaches you've had with WMM.
So far it mostly looks as if I've replaced one set of headaches with another. ;-) But I won't give up so easily.
>I agree with how you've used them here...the shouting clips work for me.
Thanks. Hmm... I think there are only two clips that bother me: the one I cut to the 'Hotel California' line, and the one where he's talking a bit on the phone. I'll have to rewatch the ep the 'Hotel California' clip is from again, I guess. *Maybe* there's a clip of Sam and his mum that does *not* involve either of them talking.
>And to encourage you further, I had heard about Life On Mars, but sort of forgotten that I wanted to procure it...until I watched your draft, which re-focused my attention ;) Off to give it a whirl now...
You do that! It's a great show, and in some ways very compatible with the interests of Farscape fans, I think. It certainly has the culture shock down!
>OH! Time spent on vids. I am not the right person to be saying what's "normal," but it seems that (looking at your past posts) this has come together pretty darn quickly! This from the slowest of the slow.
Yeah, well, it was only 74 clips and no effects except for a couple of fades. I can see that your vids are vastly more complex than that, so I would expect them to take longer... :-)