This is so fantastic. I watched it three times before I felt satisfied. Your Scully vids speak so clearly - it feels like I truly encounter the character when I watch them, and I think I like this one the best. I also love your way of skating-around-but-still-including the later seasons. It's difficult to get them to fit into the fabric of the rest of the series, but you are definitely able to do it here. I feel the same Mulder and Scully coming through. The last minute or so is also just amazing; my heart skipped a few beats.
I am a very inexperienced vidder, so pardon the naive question - but how do you manage to use so many short clips from so many different places? I imagine you can't be ripping them all individually (which is what I do) - is there something less tedious? :)
I’m so sorry to answer your question so damn late, but RL interfered and I hope this can still be useful, so here we go. I prefer vidding with the whole series in my project, this is my preference. I know vidders that do clip like you, for example Charmax and others that have also the same flavour of OCD and ‘Isn’t it fun to scan through nine hours of timeline to find that one second shot, which will be cut down to three frames later in the project?’ like Xandra and me. It really depends on your individual approach of vidding, what is more to your liking.
The way I do it, is described here and you can find the whole guide. Basically I have the whole series ripped on an external hard drive. The DVD indexed and then as an avisynth-file imported into Premiere. For avisynth you just need the vobs indexed, so no extra space for encodes of the clips. Because there are only so many avs-scripts Premiere can handle, I actually alter the scripts so I can import half a season. Reducing the scripts from one per DVD to two per season. Looking
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Oh wow, I think my heart stopped when I saw that you had a new XF vid to share! So exciting! I really enjoyed it! I'll have to come back after work to rewatch many times :D
An amazing video!! Leucocrystal pointed me to your journal and I'm glad she did!
I love the coloring and the not-so-famous clips you chose to drive the message of the video. Fantastic!! I don't often download videos as they must really impress me to do so (As a vidder myself, I'm hard to impress. lol.) but I'm definitely downloading this one. I love it!
Merci beaucoup and I get what you mean with downloading vids that make an impression. Streaming nowadays just makes it so much easier to filter out the vids that don’t hit my buttons and I still my vid folder is over 10 GB last time I checked. Once I have downloaded I can’t seem to bring myself to delete them in good conscience.
But I'm happy you enjoyed 'Clear the area' so much and thanks for your feedback.
Here from emily_shore. I am not a vid person; I just watch the ones she says are great. Although I am a very visual person, I have a hard time processing the rapidity of the images in vids and yours is no exception. Having said that, I did think yours was outstanding. I watched it yesterday and found myself thinking about it afterwards and liking it enough to want to see it again. I did watch it again today and I think I saw a little bit more than before. I am not a Mulder/Scully shipper either, but you seem to see how much more they are together than just a conventional romance. I look forward to seeing your work in the future.
I edited this comment to add: That was a really powerful vid. I watched it again this morning. It opened up something for me about the MSR on the show, in the same way that the " Kinda I Want To" vid did for the Mulder/Krycek. It made me see the show from a different point of view.
Edit the second: I added it memories because I know I will want to view it again and again. Thank you for sharing your talent.
I’m so sorry that I reply so late, but RL has been busy lately and I finally been able to wrestle away from it, so to get to your wonderful comment. What I love with your two edits is the way I can see the vid is growing on you and that the best thing a vidder can hope for.
It’s so easy to forget how difficult it can be to get into a vid on the first view, because as vidder you’ve seen your vid countless times and you don’t come even close to the feeling of discovery when you watch it with a few days in-between drafts.
And of course to actually highlight an aspect of the show and make it seen from a slightly different angle is a vidder dream come true. I’m really thrilled you could take that from my vid and for me Scully/Mulder are not conventional, but everything that should be labelled love. Not always easy to grasp, because there are so many layers in their relationship and I adore every single one. Seriously, thank you for this feedback and I'm so happy, you loved the vid.
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I am a very inexperienced vidder, so pardon the naive question - but how do you manage to use so many short clips from so many different places? I imagine you can't be ripping them all individually (which is what I do) - is there something less tedious? :)
Thanks so much for sharing this, it's amazing!
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The way I do it, is described here and you can find the whole guide. Basically I have the whole series ripped on an external hard drive. The DVD indexed and then as an avisynth-file imported into Premiere. For avisynth you just need the vobs indexed, so no extra space for encodes of the clips. Because there are only so many avs-scripts Premiere can handle, I actually alter the scripts so I can import half a season. Reducing the scripts from one per DVD to two per season. Looking ( ... )
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I love the coloring and the not-so-famous clips you chose to drive the message of the video. Fantastic!! I don't often download videos as they must really impress me to do so (As a vidder myself, I'm hard to impress. lol.) but I'm definitely downloading this one. I love it!
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But I'm happy you enjoyed 'Clear the area' so much and thanks for your feedback.
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I edited this comment to add:
That was a really powerful vid. I watched it again this morning. It opened up something for me about the MSR on the show, in the same way that the " Kinda I Want To" vid did for the Mulder/Krycek. It made me see the show from a different point of view.
Edit the second: I added it memories because I know I will want to view it again and again. Thank you for sharing your talent.
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It’s so easy to forget how difficult it can be to get into a vid on the first view, because as vidder you’ve seen your vid countless times and you don’t come even close to the feeling of discovery when you watch it with a few days in-between drafts.
And of course to actually highlight an aspect of the show and make it seen from a slightly different angle is a vidder dream come true. I’m really thrilled you could take that from my vid and for me Scully/Mulder are not conventional, but everything that should be labelled love. Not always easy to grasp, because there are so many layers in their relationship and I adore every single one. Seriously, thank you for this feedback and I'm so happy, you loved the vid.
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