so apparently I still remember how to do this vidding thing.
I seem to have made a vid this week.
It's been a weird, not to say slightly surreal, experience. I read student drafts early last weekend so I could rip DVDs in the evenings, and even got as far as scrubbing through the first season grabbing virtual clips. I started laying clips Monday night as a birthday present to myself, and in two and a half hours I filled nearly a third of the timeline. Tuesday night I filled another third - made it all the way through the bridge, which I'd been worried about. Wednesday night I filled up the rest of the timeline. Thursday night I found a few new clips, fixed some stuff that was bugging me, and added the credits. I'm letting it sit for a while, because there are almost certainly some little timing glitches that will pop out at me later, but I think - I can't believe I'm typing this, but I think it's basically done.
I haven't made a vid this fast since 2002. I stayed up way past my bedtime every night for most of a week to do it, and I spent two days running on fumes as a result, but it was worth it. It was so, so worth it.
I'm holding the vid in reserve for the VVC Premieres show; I sincerely hope that I will finish at least one additional vid between now and the Premieres deadline, but I want to hang on to this one just in case.
This... this is just huge for me, in ways I don't think I can properly explain. I'm not deluding myself that I've broken through to some new magical place where all my vids come easily, or even quickly, but I was starting to get all sort of knotted up inside about not vidding, and then by extension about vidding itself, and so this renewed sense of certainty, of rightness, just when I needed it so badly, is one of those gifts from the universe that we can only be grateful for.
I haven't made something in nearly a year - not like this - and it just... It makes so many things feel so much more possible.
Happy weekend, everybody.
It's been a weird, not to say slightly surreal, experience. I read student drafts early last weekend so I could rip DVDs in the evenings, and even got as far as scrubbing through the first season grabbing virtual clips. I started laying clips Monday night as a birthday present to myself, and in two and a half hours I filled nearly a third of the timeline. Tuesday night I filled another third - made it all the way through the bridge, which I'd been worried about. Wednesday night I filled up the rest of the timeline. Thursday night I found a few new clips, fixed some stuff that was bugging me, and added the credits. I'm letting it sit for a while, because there are almost certainly some little timing glitches that will pop out at me later, but I think - I can't believe I'm typing this, but I think it's basically done.
I haven't made a vid this fast since 2002. I stayed up way past my bedtime every night for most of a week to do it, and I spent two days running on fumes as a result, but it was worth it. It was so, so worth it.
I'm holding the vid in reserve for the VVC Premieres show; I sincerely hope that I will finish at least one additional vid between now and the Premieres deadline, but I want to hang on to this one just in case.
This... this is just huge for me, in ways I don't think I can properly explain. I'm not deluding myself that I've broken through to some new magical place where all my vids come easily, or even quickly, but I was starting to get all sort of knotted up inside about not vidding, and then by extension about vidding itself, and so this renewed sense of certainty, of rightness, just when I needed it so badly, is one of those gifts from the universe that we can only be grateful for.
I haven't made something in nearly a year - not like this - and it just... It makes so many things feel so much more possible.
Happy weekend, everybody.