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lizbeeI've reached the point with my fic where I don't really want to go on until I've gotten someone else to look at it, but that would involve first cleaning up the bits I've written, which is like actual work.
And then I remembered all the vids I've had in my head lately, andfan_eunice has been making a vid a week for Doctor Who for the last few weeks, and they're all really good, which fosters the delusion that it's easy. (AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA.) So I downloaded Windows Movie Maker (it doesn't come automatically packaged with Windows 7; you're supposed to go and download Windows Live Movie Maker, which is exactly like WMM only without any of the features that make it useful for vidding. Instead, I grabbed the Vista version of WMM, which is fine, only they've gone and upgraded it, so now it looks DIFFERENT, and that's HARD.)
Anyway. I trimmed my song, because, while I love you, Tori, I don't need a long period of silence at the beginning of my song. And I'd have taken out the really, really long piano solo at the beginning, too, but I couldn't seamlessly lose that, and I didn't want to just fade in a lot later, because there's a bit I like, and ... well, yeah. So I did all that, and I imported my video, and ripped some DVDs, because my copy of the first season of B5 was in a format that WMM didn't recognise.
SOME HOURS LATER, I had 20 seconds of vid. And that was great.
Only, I've had this thing lately where I wanted to do a vid with sections of just blackness. Which is Terribly Wanky Indeed, but it worked in my head, and seemed okay on the timeline. Only then I did a quick test export, and found that the .5 of a second of blackness bits were all distorted in the final product. I did take them from an extended fade-in at the beginning of an episode; possibly it was just a data blip. I'VE BEEN VIDDING A BLIP.
So now I'm going through![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
vidding, reading up about transitions and whatnot. I may have to try some experiments with jpgs. Why can't it just be easy, like the way it looks in my head?
And then I remembered all the vids I've had in my head lately, and
fan_eunice has been making a vid a week for Doctor Who for the last few weeks, and they're all really good, which fosters the delusion that it's easy. (AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA.) So I downloaded Windows Movie Maker (it doesn't come automatically packaged with Windows 7; you're supposed to go and download Windows Live Movie Maker, which is exactly like WMM only without any of the features that make it useful for vidding. Instead, I grabbed the Vista version of WMM, which is fine, only they've gone and upgraded it, so now it looks DIFFERENT, and that's HARD.)Anyway. I trimmed my song, because, while I love you, Tori, I don't need a long period of silence at the beginning of my song. And I'd have taken out the really, really long piano solo at the beginning, too, but I couldn't seamlessly lose that, and I didn't want to just fade in a lot later, because there's a bit I like, and ... well, yeah. So I did all that, and I imported my video, and ripped some DVDs, because my copy of the first season of B5 was in a format that WMM didn't recognise.
SOME HOURS LATER, I had 20 seconds of vid. And that was great.
Only, I've had this thing lately where I wanted to do a vid with sections of just blackness. Which is Terribly Wanky Indeed, but it worked in my head, and seemed okay on the timeline. Only then I did a quick test export, and found that the .5 of a second of blackness bits were all distorted in the final product. I did take them from an extended fade-in at the beginning of an episode; possibly it was just a data blip. I'VE BEEN VIDDING A BLIP.
So now I'm going through
vidding, reading up about transitions and whatnot. I may have to try some experiments with jpgs. Why can't it just be easy, like the way it looks in my head?
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Date: 2010-04-24 05:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-24 05:45 am (UTC)I'll get off your lawn now...
*runs away giggling*
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Date: 2010-04-24 05:47 am (UTC)