New Vid!! Battlestar Galactica!

[sisabet]

I finished another vid! Massive thanks and kudos to renenet for the machine gun beta performed well into the wee hours.

Fandom: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Song: When I Paint My Masterpiece
Artist: Emmylou Harris
Starbuck, character study
Format: WMV, 20mbs
Oh, the streets of Rome are filled with rubble

WMV version - 19 mbs here


All thoughts, criticisms, recipes, whatever - it is welcome. Feel free to link to this page (not to the vid) on LJ, webpages, and communities/mailing lists.

A rough outline done in the hours before I started laying clips and was itching to vid, but stuck at work, can be found here . At that time I said I was not up for discussing the vid, just process. Now, now that I have done all that I can do, I am up for discussing the vid. Whew.

ETA: 1-11-10 the vid is now available (wmv only, sorry) for download again.

Comments

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, there is no such thing as an easy yet effective vidding program *although* most of the nonlinearediting programs are not as challenging as they first appear to be. There is a steep initial learning curve, but that is because they don't work on an intuitive level.

Windows Movie Maker and iMovie *do* work on an intuitive level although my opinion about WMM is that it is a piece of trash. iMovie is stable, but not ideal for making a music video where timing is everything. iMovie is linear (as WMM) which means any change in one clip will affect the place on the timeline of all the clips).

I would suggest, for a PC, Adobe Premiere as the editing software and VirtualDub for clipping/capturing. For a Mac - Final Cut Pro is where all the bells and whistles are, but I have seen some really great vids made with iMovie (although I would think the timing thing would be frustrating) and Final Cut Express.

But for a PC - Premiere is pretty much the way to go. The dude commenting above you, absolut3destiny, has written several wonderful guides over at the AMV re: getting set up to make a music video. He's taught me more about Premiere than I thought possible for my brain to contain, so I know his write-ups are easy to follow. permetaform has also compiled, in her memories, and incredibly extensive collection of links re: getting started to various vidding meta discussions.

[rydra_wong]

*de-lurks briefly*

Just to add - for Macs, there's also Hyperengine-AV, which is non-linear, freeware, and has a really interesting interface. It doesn't have the bells and whistles of even Final Cut Express, and it can be cranky, but (speaking as a clueless newbie myself) it's way more fun than iMovie. So it might be something to consider as a starter option:

http://www.arboretum.com/products/hyperengine-av/hav_main.html