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lierdumoaFuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck. And also fuck. Called my mom this morning. She sent my absentee ballot request form in the mail. It did not arrive. Ergo, I cannot vote unless I can get someone to drive me down to my hometown on Tuesday, which is about three hours away.
Also, fuck.
Anyway, I see the good night's sleep thing was temporary. With the end of daylight savings time I thought I got five hours. Turns out I got six. Which isn't really all that reassuring. Last night I vidded while more tired than I have ever been while vidding. Got about ten more seconds done since I last posted.
I'm currently worried about the speed of clip changes in one section. The pace goes fine with the music. However, it may be too fast for the images to properly register to viewers. On the one hand, maybe I only think so because I'm watching this in premiere in a 200x300 pixel window. It's looks better when I enlarge the window. On the other hand, I tend to register things faster than the average vid watcher. Then again, one of the clips has a semi-disturbing image that I need in the vid for thematic purposes but want to keep short due to the ugliness factor.
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Interesting thing I noticed. My crossfades (most of the scene transitions in this vid are crossfades) actually seem to speed up the vid, rather than slow it down, which is the effect crossfades tend to have in slow songs. With regular cuts one motion stops and another starts and fades tend to make it all look like one motion. Maybe it's that in a vid a regular cut is faster than a slow movement but slower than a fast movement, so it speeds one up and slows the other down. Or maybe it's that if you fade slowly into a long scene it seems to drag the transition out whereas if you fade quickly into a short scene it makes the short scene even shorter because you have less time to register the shot.
Did that make any sense at all?
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I'm also wibbling over beat because I realized that while most of my vid emphasizes the main beat, the last section I did emphasizes the syncopated beat (or maybe it's the other way around). This was a total accident. Both beats are approximately the same volume (relative to each other) and show up the same on the waveform, however clipping to a beat makes the beat seem louder to the viewer. The result is that the section sounds slightly different from the rest of the song because I clipped it differently. I'm not sure if I like this or not. It seems kinda cool when I think about it, but if it fucks up the flow I'll have to mess around with it more.
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permetaform, if we ever make it to VividCon, we definitely need to do a panel on beat.
See,permetaform, this is why I can't do your thing with the soundless vidding. The song has too many beats for me to use the waveform as my only guide. That, and in the louder portions of the song the beat is heard more by pitch than by stress, so it's very hard to distinguish on the waveform. Maybe future versions of Premiere will grayscale the waveform for pitch. One can dream.
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You know, I was thinking. Windows Movie Maker versus Premiere. I know when I made Superman, I was delighted to be working in Premiere because I could fix things like actions that I couldn't get on beat and skewed aspect ratios. It was nice to have non-linear editing, but not that big of a deal to me because I still vid pretty linearly even now. Premiere allowed me to polish that vid more than I could in Superman. A lot of live action vids are like that. They're very polished when made in Premiere, but most of the small effects like speed changes and brightness/contrast alterations are designed not to be obvious. The vids don't look all that different from ones made in WMM.
Now I go from Superman to the vid I'm doing now. Superman would have been less polished, but still pretty much the same if I had done it in WMM. This vid on the other hand, would not exist, if I had tried to do it in WMM. The program simply couldn't handle it. I can think of a handful of live action vids like that.sisabet's Without You I Am Nothing. To an even greater extent, permetaform's The Fragile and Lucky You.
On the other hand, virtually every good anime vid I've seen was the sort of vid that could not have been made in WMM. Not unless you planned to do your editing frame by frame in Photoshop (which by the way, people have actually done, so before you start calling me obsessive...).
Soooo...yeah.
2:12 down, 1:24 to go.
Then the credits, which will probably end up being the most difficult part of my vid (but look so cool omg).
Also, fuck.
Anyway, I see the good night's sleep thing was temporary. With the end of daylight savings time I thought I got five hours. Turns out I got six. Which isn't really all that reassuring. Last night I vidded while more tired than I have ever been while vidding. Got about ten more seconds done since I last posted.
I'm currently worried about the speed of clip changes in one section. The pace goes fine with the music. However, it may be too fast for the images to properly register to viewers. On the one hand, maybe I only think so because I'm watching this in premiere in a 200x300 pixel window. It's looks better when I enlarge the window. On the other hand, I tend to register things faster than the average vid watcher. Then again, one of the clips has a semi-disturbing image that I need in the vid for thematic purposes but want to keep short due to the ugliness factor.
*
Interesting thing I noticed. My crossfades (most of the scene transitions in this vid are crossfades) actually seem to speed up the vid, rather than slow it down, which is the effect crossfades tend to have in slow songs. With regular cuts one motion stops and another starts and fades tend to make it all look like one motion. Maybe it's that in a vid a regular cut is faster than a slow movement but slower than a fast movement, so it speeds one up and slows the other down. Or maybe it's that if you fade slowly into a long scene it seems to drag the transition out whereas if you fade quickly into a short scene it makes the short scene even shorter because you have less time to register the shot.
Did that make any sense at all?
*
I'm also wibbling over beat because I realized that while most of my vid emphasizes the main beat, the last section I did emphasizes the syncopated beat (or maybe it's the other way around). This was a total accident. Both beats are approximately the same volume (relative to each other) and show up the same on the waveform, however clipping to a beat makes the beat seem louder to the viewer. The result is that the section sounds slightly different from the rest of the song because I clipped it differently. I'm not sure if I like this or not. It seems kinda cool when I think about it, but if it fucks up the flow I'll have to mess around with it more.
permetaform, if we ever make it to VividCon, we definitely need to do a panel on beat.See,
permetaform, this is why I can't do your thing with the soundless vidding. The song has too many beats for me to use the waveform as my only guide. That, and in the louder portions of the song the beat is heard more by pitch than by stress, so it's very hard to distinguish on the waveform. Maybe future versions of Premiere will grayscale the waveform for pitch. One can dream.*
You know, I was thinking. Windows Movie Maker versus Premiere. I know when I made Superman, I was delighted to be working in Premiere because I could fix things like actions that I couldn't get on beat and skewed aspect ratios. It was nice to have non-linear editing, but not that big of a deal to me because I still vid pretty linearly even now. Premiere allowed me to polish that vid more than I could in Superman. A lot of live action vids are like that. They're very polished when made in Premiere, but most of the small effects like speed changes and brightness/contrast alterations are designed not to be obvious. The vids don't look all that different from ones made in WMM.
Now I go from Superman to the vid I'm doing now. Superman would have been less polished, but still pretty much the same if I had done it in WMM. This vid on the other hand, would not exist, if I had tried to do it in WMM. The program simply couldn't handle it. I can think of a handful of live action vids like that.
sisabet's Without You I Am Nothing. To an even greater extent, permetaform's The Fragile and Lucky You.On the other hand, virtually every good anime vid I've seen was the sort of vid that could not have been made in WMM. Not unless you planned to do your editing frame by frame in Photoshop (which by the way, people have actually done, so before you start calling me obsessive...).
Soooo...yeah.
2:12 down, 1:24 to go.
Then the credits, which will probably end up being the most difficult part of my vid (but look so cool omg).
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Date: 2004-11-01 03:33 am (UTC)Oh, I sent you a dropload of the latest version of my vid. So you can actually see/hear the crap I went on about in this post.