Vid Update
Feb. 16th, 2005 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lierdumoaI have finished 1:28 of my vid.
I'd be closer to being done, except that after doing verse two, instead of skipping ahead to verse three, I spent the entire night on a 4 second clip. But OMG it looks so cool. Well, to me, anyway. Your average viewer wouldn't know I did anything other than adjust the timing. Not unless they read this post, that is, and I'm kind of in denial that anyone actually reads my journal aside from v. close friends, so...
I came to the latter part of my bridge. I was vidding a scene from the episode where Simon breaks him and his sister into the hospital so he can look at her brain. Specifically, the scene where she's lying on his medical imaging platform thing, and Simon hits some buttons, and a hologram of her body appears above her. You can see each of her body systems, each translucent and differently colored.
Simon, in the episode, only wants to see her brain, so he makes the other layers dissappear. They each slough off her body, starting at the head and completely dissappearing at her feet. I wanted to time the shot so each layer sloughed off on beat.
Problem 1: The layers did not slough off one at a time. One would be only halfway gone by the time the next started to go. They didn't even slough off at the same speed, which meant I couldn't just time the start of each to the beat without the timing being weirdly uneven. I'm kinda anal when it comes to timing. Okay, really anal.
Solution: The crop function, and a lot of eyeballing. Since the camera conveniently did not move during this scene, I was able to take still shots, crop them, and cover the parts that were dissappearing until I actually wanted them to dissappear.
Problem 2: Now, my DVD source is actually higher resolution than Premiere is capable of vidding in. It's 960x540, while my vid is 720x404. I decided to take advantage of this and make two sets of source clips, one at my vid's resolution and one at the higher resolution (I did not do my resizing in Premiere because Premiere can't resize without image quality depreciation). With the larger set of clips I could closeups or even camera pans, to a limited extent. Now for this particular scene, I wanted to do a camera pan so the hologram of River's brain would end up in roughly the same place as River's head in the scene I was putting in after this one .
Solution: This part was easier than the first part, but a lot more tedious. I had cut the scene up into four sections, and then put cropped clips on top of those parts. I had to change the motion settings on each clip so that the whole scene would do one big pan. What I did was place a dummy clip on top of my scene and put in a starting position, and ending position on the dummy clip. I then went to my scene, and any time a new clip started, I put a cut in my dummy clip, so all the cuts in the dummy clip matched up with the cuts in my scene. I then copied the motion effects in each piece of this dummy clip and pasted them onto the clips in my scene, so when I played my scene, each little bit would pan the way I wanted it to.
Problem 3: The crop function in Premiere? Is ass. I ended up with wierd vertical lines popping up in my scene where the crop lines were.
Solution: Well, not really a solution. I can't get rid of the lines, however they look very similar to the vertical lines that pop up in my old film filter. This clip comes right before a scene which I'm putting under the old film filter, so I can just fade the filter in during this scene and it will look like the lines are there on purpose.
And of course, we can't have a Simon!vid post without before and after shots.
before 1.41 MB animated GIF
after 1.72 MB animated GIF
I'd be closer to being done, except that after doing verse two, instead of skipping ahead to verse three, I spent the entire night on a 4 second clip. But OMG it looks so cool. Well, to me, anyway. Your average viewer wouldn't know I did anything other than adjust the timing. Not unless they read this post, that is, and I'm kind of in denial that anyone actually reads my journal aside from v. close friends, so...
I came to the latter part of my bridge. I was vidding a scene from the episode where Simon breaks him and his sister into the hospital so he can look at her brain. Specifically, the scene where she's lying on his medical imaging platform thing, and Simon hits some buttons, and a hologram of her body appears above her. You can see each of her body systems, each translucent and differently colored.
Simon, in the episode, only wants to see her brain, so he makes the other layers dissappear. They each slough off her body, starting at the head and completely dissappearing at her feet. I wanted to time the shot so each layer sloughed off on beat.
Problem 1: The layers did not slough off one at a time. One would be only halfway gone by the time the next started to go. They didn't even slough off at the same speed, which meant I couldn't just time the start of each to the beat without the timing being weirdly uneven. I'm kinda anal when it comes to timing. Okay, really anal.
Solution: The crop function, and a lot of eyeballing. Since the camera conveniently did not move during this scene, I was able to take still shots, crop them, and cover the parts that were dissappearing until I actually wanted them to dissappear.
Problem 2: Now, my DVD source is actually higher resolution than Premiere is capable of vidding in. It's 960x540, while my vid is 720x404. I decided to take advantage of this and make two sets of source clips, one at my vid's resolution and one at the higher resolution (I did not do my resizing in Premiere because Premiere can't resize without image quality depreciation). With the larger set of clips I could closeups or even camera pans, to a limited extent. Now for this particular scene, I wanted to do a camera pan so the hologram of River's brain would end up in roughly the same place as River's head in the scene I was putting in after this one .
Solution: This part was easier than the first part, but a lot more tedious. I had cut the scene up into four sections, and then put cropped clips on top of those parts. I had to change the motion settings on each clip so that the whole scene would do one big pan. What I did was place a dummy clip on top of my scene and put in a starting position, and ending position on the dummy clip. I then went to my scene, and any time a new clip started, I put a cut in my dummy clip, so all the cuts in the dummy clip matched up with the cuts in my scene. I then copied the motion effects in each piece of this dummy clip and pasted them onto the clips in my scene, so when I played my scene, each little bit would pan the way I wanted it to.
Problem 3: The crop function in Premiere? Is ass. I ended up with wierd vertical lines popping up in my scene where the crop lines were.
Solution: Well, not really a solution. I can't get rid of the lines, however they look very similar to the vertical lines that pop up in my old film filter. This clip comes right before a scene which I'm putting under the old film filter, so I can just fade the filter in during this scene and it will look like the lines are there on purpose.
And of course, we can't have a Simon!vid post without before and after shots.
before 1.41 MB animated GIF
after 1.72 MB animated GIF
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Date: 2005-02-17 11:28 pm (UTC)I tend to feel rather masturbatory when I'm writing these posts, so I'm glad other people seem to be finding them interesting. I do like the technical aspect of vidding. I like all aspects of vidding, really.
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