vidding con't
Oct. 23rd, 2004 10:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lierdumoaI didn't do any serious vidding today. You'd be proud, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
daylight_shadow. My eye hasn't twitched once. Okay, so it did twitch. But it stopped like half a minute later. I've been mostly twitch free.
I love my eyes and ears.
I will not do them permanent damage.
*repeats mantra*
So the vid is moving along. I got about ten more seconds done, that I'll probably tweak about six more times before I move on. Oh, I took a screencap of my vid project. It's about 50 seconds long, so far.
Click on the thumbnail.
For anyone not Premiere savvy:
- yellow lines tell how opaque a clip is
- lower tracks won't show unless you lower the opacity of clips on the tracks above
- if there's nothing underneath a clip and you lower the opacity, it fades to black; fading to other colors is slightly more complicated
- the green line at the top means that the clips under it have been altered in some way, be it opacity, brightness, aspect ratio, speed etc.
- cuts or internal motion (head nods, arm movements, etc.) are timed three frames before the beat; the eye is slower than the ear, something I learned frompermetaform
I only technically need two tracks to vid this. Premiere's default is three. I added a fourth just to give myself more space to spread out.
One thing I can say I've learned so far in this vid is the value of a good crossfade. Crossfades and speed adjustment are the only effects I've used so far in this vid. I think crossfades are something a lot of vidders take for granted. We tend to reserve them for slower songs and not time them as carefully as jump cuts. Granted it's not as noticeable if a fade is offbeat as it is if a jump cut is offbeat. However, a fade in the right context can really work with beat.
I'm finding that I've managed to produce a lot of really interesting visual effects in this vid just using crossfades. Of course, at least half of that is thanks to the source. The Fast and the Furious is a beautiful movie in terms of color and movement. The actors are very attractive as well, and while the voice acting in this movie may be mediocre, the physical acting is excellent. Of course, in a vid, all you see is the physical acting. Facial expressions and body mannerisms are everything. Crossfading probably wouldn't look nearly as impressive if the source weren't what it was.
*happy sigh*
It's good to be vidding again.
daylight_shadow. My eye hasn't twitched once. Okay, so it did twitch. But it stopped like half a minute later. I've been mostly twitch free.I love my eyes and ears.
I will not do them permanent damage.
*repeats mantra*
So the vid is moving along. I got about ten more seconds done, that I'll probably tweak about six more times before I move on. Oh, I took a screencap of my vid project. It's about 50 seconds long, so far.
Click on the thumbnail.
For anyone not Premiere savvy:
- yellow lines tell how opaque a clip is
- lower tracks won't show unless you lower the opacity of clips on the tracks above
- if there's nothing underneath a clip and you lower the opacity, it fades to black; fading to other colors is slightly more complicated
- the green line at the top means that the clips under it have been altered in some way, be it opacity, brightness, aspect ratio, speed etc.
- cuts or internal motion (head nods, arm movements, etc.) are timed three frames before the beat; the eye is slower than the ear, something I learned from
permetaformI only technically need two tracks to vid this. Premiere's default is three. I added a fourth just to give myself more space to spread out.
One thing I can say I've learned so far in this vid is the value of a good crossfade. Crossfades and speed adjustment are the only effects I've used so far in this vid. I think crossfades are something a lot of vidders take for granted. We tend to reserve them for slower songs and not time them as carefully as jump cuts. Granted it's not as noticeable if a fade is offbeat as it is if a jump cut is offbeat. However, a fade in the right context can really work with beat.
I'm finding that I've managed to produce a lot of really interesting visual effects in this vid just using crossfades. Of course, at least half of that is thanks to the source. The Fast and the Furious is a beautiful movie in terms of color and movement. The actors are very attractive as well, and while the voice acting in this movie may be mediocre, the physical acting is excellent. Of course, in a vid, all you see is the physical acting. Facial expressions and body mannerisms are everything. Crossfading probably wouldn't look nearly as impressive if the source weren't what it was.
*happy sigh*
It's good to be vidding again.
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Date: 2004-10-24 05:28 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-10-24 08:08 pm (UTC)In any case, I'm going to need at least three more weeks to finish this. If you want to include my vid in there (I hope you do!) then perhaps you could, like, stall till mid Nov.?
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Date: 2004-10-24 09:25 pm (UTC)