I maded a thing!
Apr. 16th, 2012 10:27 amSo as mentioned with great flail, I made a vid this weekend. SO MUCH FUN. At least, thanks to ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
thingswithwings's tutorials on MPEG Streamclip, without which I would have torn out a lot more of my hair.
I'm still working on figuring iMovie out - what I really want it to do is to show me a graphical representation of the audio track so that I can visually cut to the beat instead of just listening over and over. I have a feeling that doing by eye is likely cleaner and more precise. I can get to something that looks right by going into the precision editing setup, but then I can't get ANYTHING to work at all.
I was really surprised by how much the footage changed - and not for the better! - as I worked with it. I ended up clipping to .mov files, since that seems to be what iMovie likes to eat, and maybe it was that. But, well, I was working with the Star Wars OT and I was stubborn and used the .avis I have of the original/non-Special Edition footage, which has only been released in pretty low quality. So I lost a LOT of pretty on this one. In some cases compression made shots almost illegible, which I could correct for by over-exposing them - but that makes them look greyed out in a way that makes me sad. So I'll remake/remaster this before I let it out into the larger interwebs but higher-quality base footage, but I wanted to post it here first because I'm just so EXCITED about it and I want to share, but also because I'm genuinely looking for concrit/suggestions. It's been a while since I picked up a fandom-style DIY project, and I want to get this one right! So any remarks, comments, pointers, or suggestions would be more than welcome, especially since I get a do-over.
Without further ado, let me present Baby's First (Stab At) A Fanvid:
Human of the Year
Star Wars Original Trilogy
Regina Spektor, "Human of the Year"
Luke character study
49.7 MB at Sendspace
thingswithwings's tutorials on MPEG Streamclip, without which I would have torn out a lot more of my hair.I'm still working on figuring iMovie out - what I really want it to do is to show me a graphical representation of the audio track so that I can visually cut to the beat instead of just listening over and over. I have a feeling that doing by eye is likely cleaner and more precise. I can get to something that looks right by going into the precision editing setup, but then I can't get ANYTHING to work at all.
I was really surprised by how much the footage changed - and not for the better! - as I worked with it. I ended up clipping to .mov files, since that seems to be what iMovie likes to eat, and maybe it was that. But, well, I was working with the Star Wars OT and I was stubborn and used the .avis I have of the original/non-Special Edition footage, which has only been released in pretty low quality. So I lost a LOT of pretty on this one. In some cases compression made shots almost illegible, which I could correct for by over-exposing them - but that makes them look greyed out in a way that makes me sad. So I'll remake/remaster this before I let it out into the larger interwebs but higher-quality base footage, but I wanted to post it here first because I'm just so EXCITED about it and I want to share, but also because I'm genuinely looking for concrit/suggestions. It's been a while since I picked up a fandom-style DIY project, and I want to get this one right! So any remarks, comments, pointers, or suggestions would be more than welcome, especially since I get a do-over.
Without further ado, let me present Baby's First (Stab At) A Fanvid:
Human of the Year
Star Wars Original Trilogy
Regina Spektor, "Human of the Year"
Luke character study
49.7 MB at Sendspace