:)

[lierdumoa]

Bought HBP yesterday. Got through chapter one before chatting with spaggel about SGA fic and then falling into bed. Or rather, climbing, cause you know, loft bed.

I have so much to do today I'm cringing. I'm down a ridiculous number of hours for my co-op workshift. Partly because, well, I have an art class eating my life and no free time. I also need to talk to two college admissions offices, which could well take hours and hours, and set up a dental appointment.

Speaking of which, I got an A on my homework yesterday! And since I have a scanner, I'll spam you with it. Well, part of it.







The assignments were to draw 3 hands and feet (from life) the bones of the hands and feet, top and side view (from our class's model skeleton) and the muscles of the hands and feet (drawn on tracing. paper over a handout of the bones of said appendages, using our art anatomy books as reference). I got an A minus on both the hands and feet drawn from life and the bones. I got an A plus on the muscles. A few subtleties of the shading on that drawing have rubbed off thanks to it being on tracing paper.



So I dragged the source for Mandy!vid off my co-op server to my harddrive (god bless free illegal network databases). Five movies in all: Chasing Amy, Clerks, Dogma, Mallrats, and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Reasonably good avi source for all of them. I should probably defrag. I'll need to wait till I see permetaform again to get my Shawshank Redemption DVD back from her, which my sister bought for me a few birthdays ago.

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[piper47.livejournal.com]

I love Chasing Amy... that's really random, but I just really love that movie. The first time I saw it I thought it was the weirdest movie I had ever seen and decided I never wanted to see it again.

Of course I couldn't stop thinking about it. And talking about it.

Finally I watched it again and was like "OMG! This movie is awesome!! What was I thinking?!"

So now it's one of my favorite movies ever.

Just thought I would share. ;)

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Hee! I don't think I've ever reacted that way to a movie, but I have to a few vids. I couldn't decide if I loved them or hated them and they sat on my harddrive for ages until I finally figured out -- OMG this is awesome!

[piper47.livejournal.com]

I do that all the time with movies. Like when I saw Closer in the theater. I was like "Wow... that was... different." And I didn't know if I liked it or not. But then I kept thinking about it, replaying scenes in my head and when it finally came out on DVD I watched it again and now it's my favorite movie ever. ( Well.. after the Wizard of Oz ;) )

Funny how that happens though huh?

I do that with vids sometimes, but usually in reverse. I watch a vid and think its the best!vid!eva!! and then I go back and watch it a month later and wonder what kind of drugs I was on when I thought that. ;)

[mclachlan.livejournal.com]

Wow... those hands are IMPRESSIVE!!


And just out of curiosity, how'd you like HBP?




BTW, I have a question for you, since you're the Be-All-End-All when it comes to vidding... I'm not sure if you're familiar with Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5, but I'm making my first vid, and I'm not sure how to go about doing this one little thing: if I want two vid clips overlapping each other, one faded enough so you can see one image clearly (you see this in movies and stuff), how can I do that? Any help you can give me will be great.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

I haven't finished the book yet. Probably won't for another week. I'm not far enough into it to form an opinion, but I'll make sure to write a big post when I'm done!



BTW, I have a question for you, since you're the Be-All-End-All when it comes to vidding...

Ack! Not true! I'm so, so not. Or really, I think vidding's more like writing in that different styles appeal to different people, and...okay before I lose track of the subject I'll answer your question. Yes.

Adobe Premiere Pro (I have 7.0, not 1.5, but from what I know the two versions of the program are practically the same). There are two ways to do a dissolve. There's a crossdisolve effect and there are opacity handles. I prefer to use opacity handles most of the time, but I'll explain both for you.

Here is a screencap of a vid I made a while back: TITG (http://pics.livejournal.com/lierdumoa/pic/0001bzbp). All my explanations will refer back to this picture.

Using the Crossdissolve Effect:

You'll see that there are three main windows: Project, Monitor, Timeline. There's also a History window, but I never use that one so I close it at the start of any project. Go into the project window and you'll see two tabs. The first tab has the name of your project file and lists all the source material you've imported. The second tab is labeled Effects.

Click on the effects tab and you'll see different categories of effects. You'll want the category labeled Video Transitions. Under Video Transitions, go to Dissolves. Under Dissolves you'll want Cross Dissolve.

Look at your timeline. Get the two clips you want to fade into each other and put them side by side. Make sure there is no space between them. Now go to your Effects window, click on the Cross Dissolve effect, and drag it down to your timeline to between the two clips.

You'll see a little rectangle appear between the two clips. That is the Cross Dissolve. Now you can use the selection tool (see your toolbar, it's the one at the top shaped like a cursor) to drag at the edges of the cross dissolve and make it longer or shorter.

Con't in my next comment.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Using Opacity Handles (my preferred method):

Refer back to the screencap I linked to of an old vid project. Look at the timeline and you'll notice that the clips all have yellow lines running across them. Some of these lines move diagonally across a clip. These yellow lines signify opacity, or how opaque a clip is at a given moment. The grayish button things that show up on some of the yellow lines are opacity handles. If a yellow line goes diagonally from the top to the bottom of the clip, this means the clip is going from 100% opaque to 100% transparent.

Premiere works a lot like Photoshop. Think of each video track as a layer. You'll see that the video tracks in my screencap are labeled Video 1, Video 2, Video 3, etc. If you have two clips at 100% opacity, one on top of the other, only the one on top is going to be visible. If you lower the opacity on the top clip, the layer underneath will become visible.

You might notice that in your vid project you're not seeing any yellow lines on your clips. Go to the far left of your timeline window to where the tracks are labeled. You'll see a number of different boxes that you can click on. You'll notice one box has a picture of one of the grayish button things and the picture is crossed out. This means that your opacity handles are not visible. If you click on this box, you can make them visible.

Referring again back to my screencap, look under the word Video 1 and you'll see the gray button thing again with two arrows next to it.

Now go back to the main timeline. You'll see the red line going vertically down the timeline that says where on your timeline you are in your Preview window (the right compartment of your Monitor window, which I mentioned at the beginning of this comment as one of the 4 windows that opens when you start any project in Adobe Premiere).

Put that red line wherever you want your opacity handle (grayish button thing) to be. Then select the clip with your mouse. Then go under Video 1 and click on the grayish button with the two arrows next to it and Premiere will put an opacity handle on the clip you've selected, wherever your red vertical line is.

You can put as many opacity handles on a clip as you want. The little arrows will allow you to jump from handle to handle on a single clip. You may also go to the clip with your mouse cursor and move the opacity handles you've put in around with your cursor, from left to right or from top to bottom (100% opaque to 100% transparent) of your clip.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Oh, whoops. Read your comment incorrectly. Anyway, the opacity handles explanation works for both cross dissolves and for what you were asking for, so just ignore the first comment.

:)

[(Anonymous)]

::blinks:: um, life insane, maybe friday? o.0

also, cool art!

also, ...I suck, but I know where the link is now.

::headdesks::

So, Muse Availability

[popcorn-orgasms.livejournal.com]

Hey

Umm, I wanted to respond to your response but didn't want to spam prufock's journal, so thought I'd just follow you home. (that might sound a little creepy.)

but it was Here's Luck vid- which introduced me to the wonders of vidding (ie absolute fulfillment), which I then sadly neglected.

So you vid...and you're the "Be All and End all"- what have you done, and what in it do you recommend since my fandoms are Btvs, HP, Smallville and (shamefacedly) Hiraki No Go. I think I could take a serious plunge into vidding.

But, with regards to the masturbatory- Draco is so my half-self, and fandom obsession, and I find myself going to people on sites "But you don't understand him! He's really sweet underneath it all!"

And- I love your icons, so I was like thinking, even know you don't know me and all, you've probably been waiting for some random person to stumble onto your journal and declare themselves your icon muse. And I could totally be that person... you know it'd be such a task, and so veerry time consuming, but for a few *hundred* icons I could be convinced.

Which is my really sad way of going- OMg please make me icons. I'm thinking that's you in it- I like how you got the nose and the lips, and gave the impression of of the thick curly hair. Ok, now that I've rendered my muse application, I'll be gone.

[hungry-worm.livejournal.com]

Good drawings, especially the dorsal view of the hand w. muscles/tendons looks really neat, like right out of the anatomy book. :)

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Thankyou!