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Hi; here are some vids.

title: hades & persephone
fandom: Labyrinth
music: Anais Mitchell
length: 3:21
summary: Sarah/Jareth mytharc
download: 60.06 mb at sendspace
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title: Bedtime Stories
fandom: due South
music: Madonna
length: 3:22
summary: Fraser-centric, multipairing-with-RayK-endgame, sex/sexuality is hard when you're a perfectionist control freak from the frozen North.
download: 55.45 mb at sendspace
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title: 57821
fandom: Battlestar Galactica 1978
music: Janelle Monae
length: 3:17
summary: show overview vid, Apollo-centric
download: 57.63 mb at sendspace
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title: what's in the brain that ink may character
fandom: multi
music: Hildegard von Bingen and Richard Souther
length: 3:46
summary: imagination visualized
download: 72.49 mb at sendspace
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title: A long time ago in a galaxy
fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy
music: Ingrid Michaelson
length: 2:31
summary: making movies, making magic: a loveletter to all the wonderful dedicated creative artists who came together to make the original Star Wars trilogy a thing of beauty and joy forever
download: 49.69 MB at Sendspace, 20.93 MB at Sendspace
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May the fourth be with you!

I didn't entirely mean to make three of these - I started with a remaster of the Luke-centric vid that was the first thing I ever made, and that only got uploaded behind lock, but then there was all this footage that I wanted to use and I love the visuals of the OT almost as much as I love the characterization and then I realized that I could do a trilogy to Regina Spektor songs. So that is what I did. I'm listing these in the order that I made them, because they kind of served as a vidding journeyman project - although I'd still really appreciate concrit and vidding tips!

the one where being everyone's messiah is actually kind of rubbish:
title: human of the year
fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy
music: Regina Spektor
length: 4:07
summary: {Luke character study} hello, hello, calling a Luke Skywalker to the front of the cathedral, you have won
download: 61.95 MB at Sendspace, 30.71 MB at Sendspace
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the one where Leia Organa is more badass than you
title: all the rowboats
fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy
music: Regina Spektor
length: 3:07
summary: {Leia character study} see them hanging in their gold frames for forever and a day
download: 64.70 MB at Sendspace, 25.96 MB at Sendspace
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the one where Han Solo is a total softy
title: firewood
fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy
music: Regina Spektor
length: 3:16
summary: {Han character study} everyone knows you're going to stay, so you might as well start trying
download: 52.10 MB at Sendspace, 26.80 MB at Sendspace

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So as mentioned with great flail, I made a vid this weekend. SO MUCH FUN. At least, thanks to 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

I've been seeing amv recs popping up around my rlist, so I thought I'd offer up a few Studio Ghibli vids on recommedation:

Fix You, Howl's Moving Castle. Howl/Sophie, soft and tentative and delicate and sweet. A pretty vid, with long slow cuts that nevertheless carry momentum.

That's Where You'll Find Me, Howl's Moving Castle. A long vid, clocking in at four minutes, meaty and satisfying. Builds to a fairly intense climax.

Tranquil Voices, Laputa. Pretty much one of my favorite vids ever, anime or live action. It has this kind of - soaring feeling to it.

Love Burns Brighter, Laputa. Sheeta/Pazu. Totally awesome.

Dreams Take Flight, Laputa. This is a lighter vid, more pop, more sparkly. It's my go-to "I have stuff to get done and I need to power up" vid. Great cheerful energy, with a candy center.

Rainy Season, Spirited Away. An introspective hero-vid for Chihiro. I wish the end didn't pull the "it was all a dream" cop-out, but the first 3/4th of the vid are so wonderfully evocative that I still think it's worth it.