baby's first vid

[isiscolo]

I've learned that in fandom, one should never say never. In October 2005 I wrote a post about not liking vids. I started reccing vids in May 2006. And now, in January 2007, I have just made my first vid (well, really a vidlet):

Lonesome Wilby (Wilby Wonderful/Lonesome Dove; 11.3MB/1:23, right-click and save

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[isiscolo]

Hee, well. Probably the most useful advice I gleaned from the vidding memories was (I think from permetaform) that you should learn the bare minimum and then just tackle it, because otherwise you'll be so intimidated and confused that you'll never get anywhere. So I went into it with the vague idea that I should not be too literal (heh, with an instrumental this was easy), that I should cut to the beat, that I should have a purpose for each clip, and, okay, shoo, go, make a vid. (I also went into it with my own very strong and idiosyncratic preferences for vids in mind, which are mostly that I like short and I like narrative.)

The mechanical stuff was sort of confusing to work out. Probably the best advice I can give you is that you only need to split the clips that WMM creates (assuming you use that software, which comes with Microsoft computers) into the actual scenes as filmed in your source; trim the clips on your timeline, not up in the clip collection, because that gives you more leeway in changing the timing as you figure things out. It took me way too long to figure this out, and once I did, things went much faster.

I guess I can answer your question mostly by saying: I cut down the song on the 18th, started working on the vid on the 19th and 20th, threw it away and started over on the 21st, finished a first version on the 22nd, then futzed with it on the 23rd until I was mostly happy. I don't know, 12 hours or so? But the first few days were agonizingly slow and I accomplished very little because I was still trying to figure out the software.