Stand back, I'm going to try vidding!
If I'm trying something for the first time and posting it, I'm really uncomfortable with the idea of noting, "this is my first post/fic/time doing this in front of people". But evidently the shock is overriding that feeling because OMG I MADE A VID. Folks, I have wanted to do this for years.
Recently I approached vidding the same way I had started podficcing: I read loads of tutorials and recommendations on-line, downloaded free software and purchased plug-ins, and let everything I'd learned simmer while being paralyzed by the possibility of Not Doing It Right until some prompt, challenge, or fest came along where I could submit my creative idea. (Congratulations,
sherlock_flashfic, you tipped the scales!)
The tutorials at FoolishPassion.org were my go-to references and security blanket, so a very big "thank you" to that site. I decided to use Mac the Ripper for source files because the default settings worked fine, and HyperEngine-AV for editing. The latter hasn't been supported since, what, 2004? and seems to have had any official documentation or help files for it completely wiped off the face of the internet. But it's free, has non-linear multi-track editing (which I so need), and appears to have a lot of exporting flexibility, so I think I'll keep it for a while.
In podficcing news, it looks like I missed getting in on remopodmo, which I kind of regret but is probably for the best considering my stress levels. But I am so doing
pod_together. After three recent heavy doses of audio Big Bangs, the lengths of everything else on my to-record list look like a walk in the park. Which reminds me, since it was originally a private post when I put it up, my podfic of the White Collar story Jeffrey Nullier's "Man With Fedora" by
sam_storyteller is live at my journals and at podficbigbang's archive site.
Crossposted to http://lunate8.dreamwidth.org/11604.html.
Recently I approached vidding the same way I had started podficcing: I read loads of tutorials and recommendations on-line, downloaded free software and purchased plug-ins, and let everything I'd learned simmer while being paralyzed by the possibility of Not Doing It Right until some prompt, challenge, or fest came along where I could submit my creative idea. (Congratulations,
sherlock_flashfic, you tipped the scales!)
The tutorials at FoolishPassion.org were my go-to references and security blanket, so a very big "thank you" to that site. I decided to use Mac the Ripper for source files because the default settings worked fine, and HyperEngine-AV for editing. The latter hasn't been supported since, what, 2004? and seems to have had any official documentation or help files for it completely wiped off the face of the internet. But it's free, has non-linear multi-track editing (which I so need), and appears to have a lot of exporting flexibility, so I think I'll keep it for a while.
In podficcing news, it looks like I missed getting in on remopodmo, which I kind of regret but is probably for the best considering my stress levels. But I am so doing
pod_together. After three recent heavy doses of audio Big Bangs, the lengths of everything else on my to-record list look like a walk in the park. Which reminds me, since it was originally a private post when I put it up, my podfic of the White Collar story Jeffrey Nullier's "Man With Fedora" by
sam_storyteller is live at my journals and at podficbigbang's archive site.
Crossposted to http://lunate8.dreamwidth.org/11604.html.