Ask the Vidder
Hi, I’m charmax and I’ll be your waitress vidder for this month. oxoniensis approached me a little while ago about taking the hot seat but unfortunately at the time I was snowed under and battling a failing comp. I’m back up and running now all ready and fired up for any questions that might come my way.
I started vidding in May 2003 which makes *counts fingers* 5 years. I started off just vidding Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. I vidded those exclusively for the first couple of years and made a ton of vids (most of which are no longer available because I can’t bear to look at them myself anymore never mind foist them on an unsuspecting public.) When those shows finished I began to branch out into other fandoms to such an extent that I now consider myself a Multi-Fandom vidder with fingers in every pie going. I’ve never really rediscovered the all consuming passion I had for my first show and so I’ve never done more than four vids in any other single fandom. Supernatural is one of several shows that I am drawn to but it hasn’t devoured my soul the way it has some other vidders. There’s so much talent at work in this fandom that I feel hugely intimidated by it all.
To date I have only made 3 SPN Videos:
The Way We Get By. A short fun vid made as a gift for astartexx.
Protégé Moi. Another short one again made for astartexx definitely not a fun vid this time though. It was a deliberate attempt at a noir style to go with a dark theme.
Deus Ibi Est. A John Winchester character study with particular emphasis on his relationship with Dean. This premiered at winchestercon 07.
It has been some time since I made a Supernatural vid because other shows have eaten my brain but I haven’t ruled out doing any in the future. I do have a couple of vid ideas for SPN but I also have a number of projects in other fandoms that are calling to me. Hopefully I’ll complete something before the next season of shows starts and something new and shiny will distract me from my plans.
For anyone who is interested; you can download my vids from:
http://charmax.livejournal.com/tag/videos (my vids on LJ)
http://bronze-ambition.net (my website)
And these are the streaming options:
http://www.imeem.com/charmax/ (Charmax @ Imeem)
http://www.youtube.com/user/Charmax76 (Charmax @ you tube)
I vid on a PC using Premiere Pro and After Effects with more than a little help from Photoshop. My early vids were made using windows movie maker and I still believe that you don’t need expensive software to make great vids (it can make life a bit less painful though.) All my recent projects were made using Premiere pro 1.5, After Effects 7 and Photoshop CS2. I’ve recently moved to Windows Vista and with that the CS3 suite, both are new experiences for me and I don’t claim to have any huge insights to share. I’m pretty sure the vidding differences will only be minor though . I wholeheartedly think a vidder should have a machine with as much poke as they can afford *pats hulking great new computer.*
So, if you have any questions for me, fire away.
I started vidding in May 2003 which makes *counts fingers* 5 years. I started off just vidding Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. I vidded those exclusively for the first couple of years and made a ton of vids (most of which are no longer available because I can’t bear to look at them myself anymore never mind foist them on an unsuspecting public.) When those shows finished I began to branch out into other fandoms to such an extent that I now consider myself a Multi-Fandom vidder with fingers in every pie going. I’ve never really rediscovered the all consuming passion I had for my first show and so I’ve never done more than four vids in any other single fandom. Supernatural is one of several shows that I am drawn to but it hasn’t devoured my soul the way it has some other vidders. There’s so much talent at work in this fandom that I feel hugely intimidated by it all.
To date I have only made 3 SPN Videos:
The Way We Get By. A short fun vid made as a gift for astartexx.
Protégé Moi. Another short one again made for astartexx definitely not a fun vid this time though. It was a deliberate attempt at a noir style to go with a dark theme.
Deus Ibi Est. A John Winchester character study with particular emphasis on his relationship with Dean. This premiered at winchestercon 07.
It has been some time since I made a Supernatural vid because other shows have eaten my brain but I haven’t ruled out doing any in the future. I do have a couple of vid ideas for SPN but I also have a number of projects in other fandoms that are calling to me. Hopefully I’ll complete something before the next season of shows starts and something new and shiny will distract me from my plans.
For anyone who is interested; you can download my vids from:
http://charmax.livejournal.com/tag/videos (my vids on LJ)
http://bronze-ambition.net (my website)
And these are the streaming options:
http://www.imeem.com/charmax/ (Charmax @ Imeem)
http://www.youtube.com/user/Charmax76 (Charmax @ you tube)
I vid on a PC using Premiere Pro and After Effects with more than a little help from Photoshop. My early vids were made using windows movie maker and I still believe that you don’t need expensive software to make great vids (it can make life a bit less painful though.) All my recent projects were made using Premiere pro 1.5, After Effects 7 and Photoshop CS2. I’ve recently moved to Windows Vista and with that the CS3 suite, both are new experiences for me and I don’t claim to have any huge insights to share. I’m pretty sure the vidding differences will only be minor though . I wholeheartedly think a vidder should have a machine with as much poke as they can afford *pats hulking great new computer.*
So, if you have any questions for me, fire away.