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di_br

How to Make Vids - The easy way

May 07, 2006 22:03

How to Make Vids - The easy way

Are you tired of asking "How can I make vids?" over and over again and only getting that same old "Get the DVDs, do the ripping" answer? Been looking for an easier, more effective way of finding clips and using them ( Read more... )

rant, vid clip theft

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un4scene May 8 2006, 04:11:36 UTC

Ooooh, nice tutorial indeed! And don't forget, for step 1, to suggest to use and abuse anything and everything by Evanescence and Sarah Mclachlan. We simply don't get enough vids by these rare artists.

di_br May 8 2006, 11:15:29 UTC

Hehehe we certainly don't. Particularly "My immortal" for shippy videos, we just can't get enough of that!

emachi May 8 2006, 04:40:18 UTC

*dies* I love it!

The annoying thing for me though is when I get ghost frames from Adobe Premiere when I use the original ripped dvd. When one scene cuts to another and you're trying to get just the end of that first scene in... gah! Even when you zoom right into the timeline it's still damned hard.

di_br May 8 2006, 11:18:27 UTC

*bows* Thanks!

Oh, ghost frames are everywhere! *misses her 'ghost frame busters' icon*
They're so irritating. You don't see anything on your program preview, you go through all the cuts to make sure there's no frame or gap that shouldn't be there, and then you render the vid and you still get lots of those. *sigh*

emachi May 8 2006, 14:25:56 UTC

Yeah, *sigh* so many times I've tried SO HARD to clip that frame so it looks perfect and then BOOM you get hit by a ghost!

maidavids May 8 2006, 16:15:24 UTC

What drives me batty with frames that are broken into fields from two different clips is that I usually can't see them when I play them while editing. Back when I was doing analog, they'd show up bright and clear in the copies I made. Now they show up bright and clear when I've compressed the video. For one of the videos I made yesterday, I must have been bug-eyed. I made FOUR separate compressions before I could get all of those blankety-blank fields out. The only thing that saves me is to 1-try to get away with never using the first or last frame in a clip (which, of course, never works because you need EVERY frame!) and 2-use the control that moves me to each edit in Avid Express, then back and forth across the edit with the field forward and back button. And STILL I miss them!

That was a really well-written essay, and more enjoyable for the passion you brought to it. I'm really sorry for the problems you've been having.
Best, Mary

perryfinch May 8 2006, 04:49:40 UTC

This is so cool!

I will use all these tips! Thanks!!!!!!1!!!

di_br May 8 2006, 11:19:20 UTC

Thanks!!!

If we all go through these steps, we'll make the world a better place. ^^

phantomas May 8 2006, 08:03:02 UTC

*dies laughing*
(here via ashinae)

di_br May 8 2006, 11:22:24 UTC

*ressucitates you*

Oh, thanks for stopping by! :)

peter_neverland May 8 2006, 14:09:11 UTC

Just a thought, but all of us stole our clips, every single one of us, since absolutely none of us made the original. Like I said, just a thought.

ashinae May 8 2006, 14:50:10 UTC

*groans* But haven't we all had that argument before? I'm not passing Steven Weisberg's work off as my own with my Prisoner of Azkaban vid. Any idiot watching it would know where his work ends and mine begins; particularly since I'm fairly sure it's safe to say that I didn't leave any of his original editing in. So yes, the source isn't mine, but the editing is.

Therefore, if it's okay for someone to take my work and say "omg I put this together!" (liar!), since even though I used none of the original editing, is it okay for me to take someone's fanfiction, and say "omg I wrote this!" because the person who wrote it may have put all his/her own words in it, but the characters aren't his/hers?

For me, it's never been so much the laziness of people who think using another fan's editing isn't a big deal -- it's the lies. Anyone who's watched the source will know what's my work and what's not. It's the lying to other fans. I know the internet is full of liars. Why can't they just lie about their weight and appearance and their name and ( ... )

peter_neverland May 8 2006, 16:08:22 UTC

Okay, I'm not arguing in favor of people who steal ideas or show no creativity in usage. My point is that you are condemning anyone who uses clips that they got anywhere except ripping them themselves. Many people don't have the software/hardware whatever to do that and I would hate to stint their creativity just because people are being possessive about something that is not there's in the first place.

You are absolutely correct that we walk a fine line and that we all understand that the originals are not ours, but I would think that would make us more tolerate towards our fellow vidders not less.

ashinae May 8 2006, 16:49:50 UTC

I don't understand the mentality of "Well, I can't get it myself, but I want to do it nooow so I'll just use other people's stuff without asking and/or even though they've put on their website not to do it". I never will. I did my research and got what I needed, and yes, it took time.

With the advances in technology and software, all someone needs is a DVD drive. Except for the drive, everything I use I got for free. (The joy of the 'net.) A quick search at bestbuy.ca shows me a DVD drive for under $100 Cdn, but this will become a rant in patience, responsibility, budgeting, and bugging people for gift cards for birthday/Christmas, and if they really can't afford to save for that, they'd best get off the internet.Computers come equipped with Windows Movie Maker. The internet is full of resources -- like google, and torrents. A lot of vidders' websites point out many of those resources ( ... )

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