some notes on revision

[heresluck]

Revising a vid, I'm discovering, is rather like redecorating one's living room. Replace the ratty old sofa with a nice new one and suddenly the heretofore perfectly acceptable armchair looks aged and worn. Get a new armchair and now the space is demanding an area rug. Aquire the rug and discover that the old curtains don't match and will have to go

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[renenet]

In the meantime, the cats are encouraging me to come hang out with them on the sofa, so I'm going to go settle in with a Civil War documentary and a lapful of knitting, which will hopefully turn into a lapful of cat.

Oh! Are you knitting me a kitten?! No, that's not what you meant? Fine. I hope the sweater is progressing nicely then.

[drdawn]

My original goal was merely to replace some of the craptacularly glitchy source in a long-finished vid with better source, but of course once I started tinkering I just kept going.

That is exactly what happened to me with revidding "Laid." Let me just replace the source, so I don't cringe with the subtitles and oh-those shots of Spike with Buffy. Then, once I had the vid in the timeline--with the previous vid below it as a guide, I couldn't replace clip for clip. By the second clip, I decided to rethink the whole vid. I noticed something though. It is much easier to revid a song, maybe because you know the song and small changes in the music so well the second time. I guess it doesn't hurt that you've already planned and vidded the song, so the whole revidding is actually just revision, even though it feels like more. Anyway, I had a lot of fun doing it. :)

[heresluck]

I wondered about your process with "Laid" as I was writing, actually. (Haven't had a chance to watch the new version yet, but I'd seen that you'd re-posted it.) Good to know I'm not alone!

I'm beginning to wish that I *had* just rethought "Writing Notes" from the ground up, but it's nearly done now and I'm not redoing it *again*. And yes, it's definitely been fun. Also sort of a nostalgia trip, in both good and bad ways: oh, look at this clever thing I'd already figured out how to do! I use that trick all the time now! Go team me! followed by ...and then there's that whole section. What was I thinking?