vidding

[lierdumoa]

I'm back working on my Firefly vid tonight. So far I 1) took out a scene I really liked, as it's removal allowed me to time a punch better (cried a little over this) 2) railed at the source coloring 3) fiddled and fiddled and railed more (figured out how to use the color match effect) 3) gave up and deleted all effects on clip 4) figured out my ending shot 5) decided to play with lens flare 6) for one terrifying moment couldn't find the toggle button on the lens flare effect 7) went to f1renze's lens flare tutorial to see if she pointed out the toggle button there 8) found that she didn't, and praised the lord I didn't have to vid on Premiere 6.0 9) found the toggle button myself (technically 3 toggle buttons for that particular effect), and then cringed at my own blind stupidity 10) much to my annoyance, found that due to camera movement I was going to need to keyframe vertical placement of lens flare along with brightness 11) went "Ooooh" when it was done, then showed my roommate 12) figured out a complicated way using avisynth to take advantage of the fact that my source is 540x960 and my vid is 400x720 and do closeups 13) but was too lazy to actually try it out at this point in time 14) listened to my song a few times to try to figure out where I could possibly fit in the shirtless Simon clip 15) zoned out on the shirtless Simon clip 16) realized I'd been working on this since 8:30 and it was now 11:00 and I apparently only had managed to vid my 3 second long lens flare ending (and do about 5 bajillion useless things totally unrelated to my vid like chat with my roommate about Chris Pratt) 17) opened up my LJ client so I could whine, whine, whine 18) laughed, because this post is, like, *so* not in English

In conclusion, Simon is pretty.

Comments

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

There's a toggle button? And um...what is "toggle"?

This avisynth -- it allows Premiere to recognize vob files, right? It sounds incredibly complicated - should I be afraid (remember I don't know what *toggle* means)?

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

There's a toggle button? And um...what is "toggle"?

It's the button you press so you can put keyframes in. I have no idea what toggle actually means, but I assume it has something to do with keyframing. Maybe it looks different in Premiere 6.0. I will screenshot.

Effects controls as seen in the source monitor window.

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This avisynth -- it allows Premiere to recognize vob files, right? It sounds incredibly complicated - should I be afraid (remember I don't know what *toggle* means)?

Yes! It's kinda complex. Took me while to figure out from the animemusicvideos.org guides. Basically the principle behind avisynth is that you have a dummy text file. You put in the filepath of your source. You change the file extension to avs. Premiere reads the avs and thinks it is, in fact, reading your source. You can also put certain commands into this text file like resize, or crop, or give me from frame 1008 to 1544 instead of the entire source file (it's clipping, without actually having to render anything).

With VOB source, you've got two dummy files, or this is my understanding of it. One you make in a program called DGIndex. You import VOB's into DGIndex -- a single VOB or an episode's worth or the entire DVD -- and DGIndex gives you a d2v file. You then put your d2v filepath into your avs, and your avs thinks it's reading mpeg2 source when it's actually reading a VOB and Premiere thinks it's reading a really high quality video file when it's actually reading an avs.

The guide at amv.org is pretty understandable, I think, though it gives you a lot of extra info you don't actually need that might confuse you. The part of it pertaining specifically to DVD source is here (http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtech/videogetb.html). You could find either me, permetaform or absolut3destiny (who wrote the guide) on instant messenger and ask us to walk you through it if you get stuck.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Okay - yeah, I don't have this in 6.0 -- your key frames look a lot like AE actually.

Are you using Pro?

And I need to breakdown and just try to use this guide -- especially since I plan on vidding a movie soon and I have no excuse not to do this.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Okay - yeah, I don't have this in 6.0 -- your key frames look a lot like AE actually.

Really? I haven't had the chance to poke around in AE yet, but that sounds promising. I won't be completely lost, then.


Are you using Pro?

I have Pro 7.0, same as permetaform.

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

you are such a ...vidder. I mean this in the best possible way. You care about color and beat and timing and pretty and source and story and......

I really hope you make it to Vividcon this year.

PS. You sending something to Escapade vid show?

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

you are such a ...vidder. I mean this in the best possible way. You care about color and beat and timing and pretty and source and story and......

Heh. I'm a perfectionist, really. If something annoys me I will poke at it till it stops. The more I learn, the more I'm aware of things, the more they have the potential to annoy me.

I really hope I make it to Vividcon this year too.

My TF&TF vid is showing at Escapade.

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

whee! (to the Escapade vid). Having an eye for detail is a great asset - just remember to look up from the fine print and enjoy the scenery (aka vidding is fun).