Vegas has been taken over by Evil Internet Gremlins and I made icons!
It sounds like I iconned the moment when Vegas was taken over by the Evil Internet Gremlins, doesn't it? Lol! That would've probably been more interesting! ;)
Anyway, here I was, just an innocent viddergirl, happily making her angsty/romantic Jack/Gwen vid, when suddenly... a bunch of my clips went black. O_O I don't mean they had blinkie issues (which Vegas is famous for). I mean they were black like they were gone. So I finally decided to cut them out of the ep again and that's when I discovered... *cue ominous music*
...the black places were coming from the episode itself! NooooOOOOOOoooooOOOOOOOoooo!!! That meant I might not even be able to toss the ep into WMM and render out those scenes if there was just something fundamentally wrong with the ep itself.
*sound of Veronica teh evol vidding muse getting ready to fry Vegas's bacon*
O_O
I've only got about 40 seconds left to go out of the 2:50-ish (don't have the credits on yet so don't know how long they'll add) and I might could even finish it tonight if I could just get everything working again! *pouts* I had it do this to me on my Terminator vid but luckily I'd done a test rendering of that particular spot to check for the timing and so I was able to import the .WMV test back into the vid to fill out the missing "super-blinkies."
I guess it's just a weird side-effect from using .AVI? I dunno! But I'm hoping that maybe if I close Vegas out, then load it up again that the eps might work for long enough for me to render what I have done, then I'll have something to "patch" with if the "super-blinkies" return.
By the way, for those of you who don't know what I mean by blinkies, Vegas has a bad habit of getting split-seconds of blackness in your clips on the timeline, so that when you watch the rendered vid, it looks like places of it are flashing on-off-on-off very quickly, like a series of blinks. They can be cut out by painstakingly trimming those split-seconds of blackness out, then rendering the clip and using that newly rendered clip in place of the old one. But these "super-blinkies" are sometimes as long as 2 or 3 seconds of continuous blackness, causing you to lose whole scenes, not just have an annoying flickering. *pouts*
So, since I'm stuck waiting on Jack and Gwen to come back from Planet Super-Blinkie (and I'm sure hoping they DO, lol! ;) ) I decided to amuse myself by doing something completely worthless:
I had a look through my pic folders at random, chose some pics that just appealed to me, and played around with them in Paintshop. I ended up going for a "painted" look, then cropped them down into icons and played around with some variations on several of them. And now, let me pin them all to my LJ's refrigerator here and make you look at them show them to you! ;)
1.
Riddick - I really ended up liking the golden glowy cast to this one; it's rather ironic considering how dark (both in tone and in lighting) that Pitch Black is! ;)
2.
Dean and Sam, angsty
3.
Dean and Sam, happier ;)
4.
And since Jared didn't get a lot of "face time" in those first two... ;)
5.
A funky variation that reminds me of some sort of psychodelic '70's album cover art, lol! ;)
6.
*sigh* Oh Ares... ;)
7.
Lee Adama, master of towels... ;)
8.
One of my favorite pics of my favorite dimpled, Southern bad boy... ;)
9.
Ooo, Sawyer - dramatic! ;)
10.
Some dramatic lighting from Nine as well. ;) ♥!
11.
Nine and Rose, with appropriate rose-colored tinting... ;)
12.
Jack and Gwen (Original screencap for comparison's sake, if you're interested ;) What can I say? I was proud of getting some color in that blue as well as getting rid of the BBCThree logo... *bats eyelashes innocently* ;) )
13.
Gwen - something about this shot really drew my attention the first time I spotted it; it just seems so pretty! ;)
14.
Jack, with some dramatic lighting of his own... ;)
And now in handy icon form, lol! ;)
15.
16.
I don't tend to do "fancy" icon things but I decided to play around with gradients on the second one. ;) (Yes, I just said using a gradient was "fancy," lol! This is how you know I'm not much of an icon-maker! ;) It felt fancy at the time, what can I say? LOL!)
17.
18.
Teh Dean... ;)
19.
20.
Teh Jared... ;)
21.
22.
Ares, God of War, meet Lee, Keeper of the Towel... ;)
23.
24.
My loverly Southern boy... ♥!
25.
26.
Nine... *draws hearts around him* ♥!
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28.
And because I've been needing a *hugs* with Nine, I threw in a text version as well. ;)
29.
30.
Gwen and Her Picture of Pretty... ;)
31.
32.
sexay!Jack, bringing sexy back... ;)
And now that I've wasted my time and yours, I think I'll go to bed now! ;) Nighty-night! *hugs* ♥!
Insert standard icon disclaimer here (though I doubt it will be needed ;) ) about how comments and crediting makes my ♥ happy... :D I left text off of most of these because I didn't really know what I wanted them to say at this point, lol! ;) They'll probably eventually get something on them but in the meanwhile, on the off-chance that you'd like them to say something in particular, just let me know and I'll be glad to "text them up" for you! ;) Resources are in my profile
Anyway, here I was, just an innocent viddergirl, happily making her angsty/romantic Jack/Gwen vid, when suddenly... a bunch of my clips went black. O_O I don't mean they had blinkie issues (which Vegas is famous for). I mean they were black like they were gone. So I finally decided to cut them out of the ep again and that's when I discovered... *cue ominous music*
...the black places were coming from the episode itself! NooooOOOOOOoooooOOOOOOOoooo!!! That meant I might not even be able to toss the ep into WMM and render out those scenes if there was just something fundamentally wrong with the ep itself.
*sound of Veronica teh evol vidding muse getting ready to fry Vegas's bacon*
O_O
I've only got about 40 seconds left to go out of the 2:50-ish (don't have the credits on yet so don't know how long they'll add) and I might could even finish it tonight if I could just get everything working again! *pouts* I had it do this to me on my Terminator vid but luckily I'd done a test rendering of that particular spot to check for the timing and so I was able to import the .WMV test back into the vid to fill out the missing "super-blinkies."
I guess it's just a weird side-effect from using .AVI? I dunno! But I'm hoping that maybe if I close Vegas out, then load it up again that the eps might work for long enough for me to render what I have done, then I'll have something to "patch" with if the "super-blinkies" return.
By the way, for those of you who don't know what I mean by blinkies, Vegas has a bad habit of getting split-seconds of blackness in your clips on the timeline, so that when you watch the rendered vid, it looks like places of it are flashing on-off-on-off very quickly, like a series of blinks. They can be cut out by painstakingly trimming those split-seconds of blackness out, then rendering the clip and using that newly rendered clip in place of the old one. But these "super-blinkies" are sometimes as long as 2 or 3 seconds of continuous blackness, causing you to lose whole scenes, not just have an annoying flickering. *pouts*
So, since I'm stuck waiting on Jack and Gwen to come back from Planet Super-Blinkie (and I'm sure hoping they DO, lol! ;) ) I decided to amuse myself by doing something completely worthless:
I had a look through my pic folders at random, chose some pics that just appealed to me, and played around with them in Paintshop. I ended up going for a "painted" look, then cropped them down into icons and played around with some variations on several of them. And now, let me pin them all to my LJ's refrigerator here and make you look at them show them to you! ;)
1.
Riddick - I really ended up liking the golden glowy cast to this one; it's rather ironic considering how dark (both in tone and in lighting) that Pitch Black is! ;)
2.
Dean and Sam, angsty
3.
Dean and Sam, happier ;)
4.
And since Jared didn't get a lot of "face time" in those first two... ;)
5.
A funky variation that reminds me of some sort of psychodelic '70's album cover art, lol! ;)
6.
*sigh* Oh Ares... ;)
7.
Lee Adama, master of towels... ;)
8.
One of my favorite pics of my favorite dimpled, Southern bad boy... ;)
9.
Ooo, Sawyer - dramatic! ;)
10.
Some dramatic lighting from Nine as well. ;) ♥!
11.
Nine and Rose, with appropriate rose-colored tinting... ;)
12.
Jack and Gwen (Original screencap for comparison's sake, if you're interested ;) What can I say? I was proud of getting some color in that blue as well as getting rid of the BBCThree logo... *bats eyelashes innocently* ;) )
13.
Gwen - something about this shot really drew my attention the first time I spotted it; it just seems so pretty! ;)
14.
Jack, with some dramatic lighting of his own... ;)
And now in handy icon form, lol! ;)
15.
16.
I don't tend to do "fancy" icon things but I decided to play around with gradients on the second one. ;) (Yes, I just said using a gradient was "fancy," lol! This is how you know I'm not much of an icon-maker! ;) It felt fancy at the time, what can I say? LOL!)
17.
18.
Teh Dean... ;)
19.
20.
Teh Jared... ;)
21.
22.
Ares, God of War, meet Lee, Keeper of the Towel... ;)
23.
24.
My loverly Southern boy... ♥!
25.
26.
Nine... *draws hearts around him* ♥!
27.
28.
And because I've been needing a *hugs* with Nine, I threw in a text version as well. ;)
29.
30.
Gwen and Her Picture of Pretty... ;)
31.
32.
sexay!Jack, bringing sexy back... ;)
And now that I've wasted my time and yours, I think I'll go to bed now! ;) Nighty-night! *hugs* ♥!
Insert standard icon disclaimer here (though I doubt it will be needed ;) ) about how comments and crediting makes my ♥ happy... :D I left text off of most of these because I didn't really know what I wanted them to say at this point, lol! ;) They'll probably eventually get something on them but in the meanwhile, on the off-chance that you'd like them to say something in particular, just let me know and I'll be glad to "text them up" for you! ;) Resources are in my profile