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isiscolo

baby's first vid

Jan 24, 2007 09:35

I've learned that in fandom, one should never say never. In October 2005 I wrote a post about not liking vids. I started reccing vids in May 2006. And now, in January 2007, I have just made my first vid (well, really a vidlet):

Lonesome Wilby (Wilby Wonderful/Lonesome Dove; 11.3MB/1:23, right-click and save ( Read more... )

navel-gazing, vid, wilby

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isiscolo January 24 2007, 21:22:18 UTC

Thank you very much! And, um, yeah, unhappy ending. But it's because Dan is an unhappy guy, at least during most of the movie, and that's what I was trying to capture.

lizbee January 24 2007, 21:18:35 UTC

Windows Movie Maker is extremely evil. I was vidding last night, and it crashed every time I looked at it wrong.

I was the opposite to you in learning to make it -- I was shortening clips in the timeline, and didn't realise I could cut them in collections. Don't worry too much about stray clips -- they often resolve themselves when you save the final version, and even if they don't, they're often unnoticable.

isiscolo January 24 2007, 21:24:25 UTC

I guess that if you have a reeeealy long clip, shortening it in the timeline is a pain. I certainly split a lot of clips even after I figured out that you can trim them in the timeline, mostly to get individual scenes out of clips that had multiple ones.

And yes, WMM crashed on me A LOT. Mostly when I was inserting a clip into the middle of the timeline rather than adding it on to the end. Grrr.

lizbee January 24 2007, 21:45:33 UTC

I guess that if you have a reeeealy long clip, shortening it in the timeline is a pain. I certainly split a lot of clips even after I figured out that you can trim them in the timeline, mostly to get individual scenes out of clips that had multiple ones.

That, and you can be a bit more precise in your cutting. Particularly if you want to keep using moments from one clip through the vid, as I did with my ... hmm, third vid.

isiscolo January 24 2007, 22:52:15 UTC

Yeah, I actually did that as well, but then after I stuck the clips in I wanted to alter their lengths. Which works for making them shorter but not for making them longer. I ended up having to recombine and recut a few times, which was irritating. But in only two places did I want to have one long clip split up into bits sequence by sequence - there were two other places where I reused the clip but didn't really pay attention to which part of it I was taking from, because both were fairly static shots.

c_regalis January 24 2007, 22:09:51 UTC

Oooh, I like it! *beams* Like Ms. Shop, I hadn't noticed the Western/hanging thing at all. Cool.

isiscolo January 24 2007, 22:55:18 UTC

Yay, I am glad you liked it!

lobelia321 January 24 2007, 22:53:15 UTC

Wow. So you taught yourself? You would recommend this? I would really like to master the Mac Movie maker thingie I have on my Apple but it looks scary!

isiscolo January 24 2007, 22:58:03 UTC

Well, it was kind of frustrating in a lot of ways, but if you're the experimental type who likes to mess around it's not bad. I think that if you have a fairly straightforward task in mind, like I did, it's not too hard to figure out how to accomplish it - but it does take a lot of time. It probably would have gone smoother if I'd been doing a tutorial or something, but it was really fun to imagine something and then put it together!

lobelia321 January 24 2007, 22:56:23 UTC

I adore that song. And it was interesting and somewhat weird to see it played to this movie which I still haven't seen. The timing worked quite well although the music seemed a bit too portentous for what appears to be quite a domestic, 'quiet' sort of film. But maybe the inner turmoil is very 'big'?

isiscolo January 24 2007, 23:14:21 UTC

Hee, it's true that the music doesn't really match the sense of the movie, which is certainly a quiet film. But see, that's kind of the point for me, to reimagine the movie (because otherwise I'm just retelling it, and why bother?) as an entirely different genre, with more, hmm. Implied explicit conflict, maybe? (See my comments to sdwolfpup above, who also hasn't seen the movie, about why the Western imagery.)

And in fact, part of why I cut the song about halfway through is that the second half of the music is really thunderous and grand.

I think that in a way I am counting on the "sense" of the music (the connotations I associate with it) as supporting the narrative in the same way as lyrics do, in songs that have them. I imagine this wouldn't work at all for people who are unfamiliar with the music, though, while lyrics are a bit more universally interpretable.

(and thanks for giving me an excuse to ramble about the music!)