[Fanvid] SPN - Higher Window (Don't tell me it's too late) - Dean/Castiel

[stolen_childe]

Song: "Higher Window" by Josh Groban
Vidder: stolen_childe
Rating: PG
Length: 4:37
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Warning/Spoilers: Clips from all season including 8.02
Link: YouTube
Notes: Still not where I'd like to be with skill level here, but practise makes perfect. I'm fairly proud of it. I hope you all enjoy!

Comments

[snowin_you]

You did this?! Is there anything you cannot do?!!

This song is heart-wrenching! I love how you tell the story. The pace of it perfectly matches the pace of the song. The tone is nice too. Can I just go and cry now?

If I may ask, what program did you use?

[stolen_childe]

Aww, thank you Darling! You're too sweet. ^-^

Pace is so tricky to do with this fanvids, but I like to keep the pace to match the song. I'm so happy you enjoyed it. It's one of my favourite JG songs and I've been wanting to do this for a while.

You can ask me anything! I just used Windows Movie Maker for Windows 7.

Thank you again, My Dear!

[snowin_you]

Nooo way. How could you make such a beautiful thing from that crappy program? Okay, wrong question. Why can't I make something this beautiful from this crappy program? I'm not making fanvid, though. I just need to do some video editing for my work, and it gets really irritating sometimes. ^^;

[stolen_childe]

Oh I was really annoyed with it as well, it wasn't working right at all with my clips and the previews were freezing. I did some Googling and found out that the clips were too good for the program so I converted AVI to WMV (using the program - just add your raw clips - probably one at a time if you have multiple because conversion can take a while - and chose save for computer) and they worked very well, then I edited the video. It's more work, but it works in the end.

I'd love a more sophisticated program by I'm too cheap to buy one and I'm too nervous to download one... lol

So you can try converting and then using the step feature to trim the video, get as close as you can to where you want first and hopefully it will work. Movie Maker really is a pain in the butt though, I completely agree.

[snowin_you]

Well, I am really leery of converting, because the quality usually dropped. But then yours look quite okay, so I guess it should be fine? I'll try anyway. Thanks!

When you edit, do you use the whole ep file, or you cut it into smaller sections first?

[stolen_childe]

I was using the entire file at first but that got too cumbersome so I trimmed it to the area around the part I wanted but gave myself quite a bit of leeway.

You are very welcome!