Vidding with high-res source

[astolat]

This is mainly a post-mortem describing how I made Bukowski, my House vid from this year's VVC, using extremely high-resolution source. I'll apologize in advance -- I really can't provide individual help for anyone trying to do this or troubleshoot it, because I just don't have time. I hope this will be useful as a starting point and a leg-up for

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[nestra]

...so what you're saying is, rather than learning how to vid myself, I just need to go kidnap someone and convert my attic to a holding cell?

Also, is it intentional that there are 42 steps? *g*

[astolat]

ahahaha, no, I did it with an ordered-list, I didn't even know that's how many steps there were. I probably would have killed myself when I hit step 30 if I had realized. However, it really is kind of the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

(And more seriously, it's really not that hard! I mean, it's insane, granted, but if you just sit down and do one thing after the other, it's... okay, I'm going back to insane, but it's a mild kind of insanity.)

[elynross]

...okay, I'm going back to insane, but it's a mild kind of insanity.

o.O

O.o

Mostly it's a type that doesn't hurt anyone else! And gives me nice shiny things to look at, so I totally approve.

("mild," she says.)

HDTV On Macs

[morgandawn]

god I love this. I am a mac vidder and was using HR source 700MB on my Supernatural vid. I tested a lot of codecs and remember the Apple Final Cut Pro Uncompressed Code YUV and the Apple Motion Jpeg both being good. Basically, you need to be willing to play around with codecs and test the best one.

http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/374550.html

But my biggest issue with working with real HDTV (not the 700MB HDTV avi files, but the 720p 1.2GB files) is that my external capture box cannot offer real time display to the TV monitor until I downcovert. Which

[ardent_muses]

Thank you for this, although most of it is way over my head. Bookmarked anyway for future reference *G*. I was wondering how you got Bukowski to look so startlingly good. Really lovely to look at.

Not to mention, you know, an awesome vid aside from that. :) Great clip choices and a lot of interesting *movement*, especially considering they really don't have a lot of camera movement on the show. It's very enjoyable to watch, and I know I can learn a lot about vidding from watching it, as well.

[jic]

OMG you are generous and wonderful and THANK YOU. Guh!

[syredronning]

Holy cow! Reading this, I decided to just remain in my little sandbox of mediocre file quality but with a higher level of sanity...*extremely impressed*

Watched your vid this morning, btw, and really like it :)) Very fitting song choice, and great cuts (fast but not as fast as to make me sea-sick while watching). Great optical quality too, but woah, what a lot of work *impressed still*