this is fun! I've been saying that there aren't enough vids that hit that eighties-kink, so I was really glad to see your post. I love the opening getting-ready sequence (Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead! An eighties classic!) and you put together a lot of the great eighties teen movie conventions with hilarious and wonderful results.
But, a little concrit: I was really distracted by the aspect ratio problems that you had here - looks like you vidded in 16:9, but didn't crop or reframe the sources that were 4:3 or 2:35:1 so that they'd conform to that aspect ratio. You should read up on that - it took me forever to learn, but I'm really glad I did.
I have a huge eighties-kink too, so YES! I definitely think there should be more eighties videos out there. I'm so glad you enjoyed the sequencing too. I had a lot of fun combing through the source for the funny/embarrassing common elements of 80s teen movies.
Thank you for identifying my aspect ratio problem! I could tell that they weren't all the same but this is the first time I've vidded from more than one source so I didn't know how to fix that. Do you have any recommended links/tutorials for how to recognize aspect ratio and adjust accordingly?
Thanks again for taking the time to watch and comment! Much appreciated :)
Oh man, vidding from different aspect-ratio sources is SUCH a pain in the ass. The resource that I found most helpful on this subject was the mac vidding tutorial at foolishpassion.org (but she has a PC tutorial too, if that's your style). She focuses on aspect ratio, with helpful diagrams and numbers and so forth.
Oh, and assuming that you do vid on a mac (I assume so because your vid is in .mov format), I've gotten a lot of help on this subject from the people at mac_vidding_101, which is a great community, and has tags on aspect ratio. I'm still a pretty new vidder, and I suspect that there are more advanced ways of dealing with the problem of multiple aspect-ratio sources (cropping or reframing them in Final Cut, for example), but my solution for the moment is to just crop everything into 16:9 (using MPEG Streamclip) and then vid in that aspect ratio (so I cut the tops and bottoms off of 4:3 sources like ST:TOS or Buffy, and I cut the sides off of 2:35:1 (film) sources like X-Men or Tipping the Velvet, and then 16:9
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Oh, awesome! I've used parts of that tutorial for other vidding tech, but I didn't realize there was an aspect ratio part too. Sweet, now I will be able to remaster this one after I finish my Sweet Charity vids :) Thanks so much!
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But, a little concrit: I was really distracted by the aspect ratio problems that you had here - looks like you vidded in 16:9, but didn't crop or reframe the sources that were 4:3 or 2:35:1 so that they'd conform to that aspect ratio. You should read up on that - it took me forever to learn, but I'm really glad I did.
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Thank you for identifying my aspect ratio problem! I could tell that they weren't all the same but this is the first time I've vidded from more than one source so I didn't know how to fix that. Do you have any recommended links/tutorials for how to recognize aspect ratio and adjust accordingly?
Thanks again for taking the time to watch and comment! Much appreciated :)
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Oh man, vidding from different aspect-ratio sources is SUCH a pain in the ass. The resource that I found most helpful on this subject was the mac vidding tutorial at foolishpassion.org (but she has a PC tutorial too, if that's your style). She focuses on aspect ratio, with helpful diagrams and numbers and so forth.
Oh, and assuming that you do vid on a mac (I assume so because your vid is in .mov format), I've gotten a lot of help on this subject from the people at mac_vidding_101, which is a great community, and has tags on aspect ratio. I'm still a pretty new vidder, and I suspect that there are more advanced ways of dealing with the problem of multiple aspect-ratio sources (cropping or reframing them in Final Cut, for example), but my solution for the moment is to just crop everything into 16:9 (using MPEG Streamclip) and then vid in that aspect ratio (so I cut the tops and bottoms off of 4:3 sources like ST:TOS or Buffy, and I cut the sides off of 2:35:1 (film) sources like X-Men or Tipping the Velvet, and then 16:9 ( ... )
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This was a lot of fun, thanks! :D
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And thanks for commenting. Very glad you enjoyed it :)
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(but it's not on YouTube.)
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The Youtube link should be up by now, thanks for letting me know it wasn't working.
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