Mmm, perhaps I did not express this well enough in my post. I don't find my blindness to be a hindrance as a viewer. In fact, I am grateful for it as it allows me to enjoy things I wouldn't otherwise. However, I do think that it is a handicap as vidder not to be able to see things that will alienate some of my audience. If it was a matter of me being able to see them but actively deciding not to care about them I would feel differently. I've done that in some cases (e.g. decided not to wait for DVD source material) and I feel fine about it. I know I may lose a small fraction of the audience but I don't care. I would like to be in control of those decisions though. Does that make sense? So rather than just having shitty colour by default, i'd like to decide whether a vid project is worth me spending time on colour correction or not. And if it is, being able to do it competently
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Anything is helpful!! I have been dying to coax people into explaining fades to me but have yet to work out a way... I do have a thing called 'additive dissolve' in FCP as well as 'cross dissolve' but I could never work out what it did. Maybe a regular fade is 'crossdissolve' in FCP?
just, the feel of the thing and the music and what I want to be visible for how long, depending on how soft and dreamy I want it to feel, or how long I want them to overlap and how connected I want the two clips to seem Yeah, ok... It's hard for me to understand because I have sort of played with that and mostly I just adjust things and stare at them and then do something different and stare at it again and it all looks much of a muchness to me. But from what you say it sounds like I need to just carry on with that and train my eye more. It's definitely one of those things where I find it hard to tell what is better. I render something and then I think 'huh, well this is different, but is it better?' Very much need of trial and error I think!
Don't get too excited! We don't have anything just called 'fade' so I am pretty sure it's just the FCP name for a basic transition. ;)
I pretty much can only think of one, maybe two transitions I've ever been happy with so I don't know... I still feel like I'm doing something wrong. This is backed up by the fact that I often get beta feedback that is basically 'everything looks fine except the transitions look clunky, why don't you just remove them?!' and then I think 'waaaah yes I thought they looked ugly too but I am TRYING damn it!' and delete them. Maybe I am innately drawn to shots that do not want to mesh together?! LOL! And I like other people's fades in their vids lots so I don't think it's that I just don't like fades. It is so baffling! I think I'll have to put it in the 'all too hard' basket for another year. :( Waah! How many years before I can use these buggers?
I shall cling to this song choice idea! It's true I like strong fast beats (my dance teacher laughs and is bewildered by the fact that put anything Punjabi on and I pick up the choreo waaaaay faster than for anything slow). As she puts it: 'it's what inspires you'. She is so kind! LOL. A more unkind person would just say I'm the most unsubtle person of all time. :p
especially if you use a lot of internal motion I would say that is the ONLY thing I do as a vidder. I have recently started adding external motion but I really mostly don't like it. Even in other people's vids I can often find it very distancing (though there are some very notable exceptions). That's one aesthetic preference I am quite comfortable living with and not changing--it is just a preference, not something I think I need to improve, but I only felt sure of that once I was technically able to add external motion and then could freely decide not to. :D
ADDITIVE DISSOLVE! \o/ It's cool! I like it! You made me brave enough to try it! I have no idea if it's appropriate or not for my source but I am very much enjoying playing with it and in my current vid project I have transitions!!! BREAKTHROUGH! Am deliberately not worrying about whether other people think they look rubbish or not yet. I think they look cool. :D Or at least new! :D
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just, the feel of the thing and the music and what I want to be visible for how long, depending on how soft and dreamy I want it to feel, or how long I want them to overlap and how connected I want the two clips to seem
Yeah, ok... It's hard for me to understand because I have sort of played with that and mostly I just adjust things and stare at them and then do something different and stare at it again and it all looks much of a muchness to me. But from what you say it sounds like I need to just carry on with that and train my eye more. It's definitely one of those things where I find it hard to tell what is better. I render something and then I think 'huh, well this is different, but is it better?' Very much need of trial and error I think!
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I pretty much can only think of one, maybe two transitions I've ever been happy with so I don't know... I still feel like I'm doing something wrong. This is backed up by the fact that I often get beta feedback that is basically 'everything looks fine except the transitions look clunky, why don't you just remove them?!' and then I think 'waaaah yes I thought they looked ugly too but I am TRYING damn it!' and delete them. Maybe I am innately drawn to shots that do not want to mesh together?! LOL! And I like other people's fades in their vids lots so I don't think it's that I just don't like fades. It is so baffling! I think I'll have to put it in the 'all too hard' basket for another year. :( Waah! How many years before I can use these buggers?
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especially if you use a lot of internal motion
I would say that is the ONLY thing I do as a vidder. I have recently started adding external motion but I really mostly don't like it. Even in other people's vids I can often find it very distancing (though there are some very notable exceptions). That's one aesthetic preference I am quite comfortable living with and not changing--it is just a preference, not something I think I need to improve, but I only felt sure of that once I was technically able to add external motion and then could freely decide not to. :D
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