Vidding Purge
May. 11th, 2005 12:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sisabetI am in a good mood, despite being awake until 3am (WTF? I mean, I know I was wired but there was absolutely no caffiene *after* 1pm). Thankfully, the same thing that wires me also seems to to make sleep some vague need that I may or may not pursue.
Also food. Food is optional, too. I kind of like this feeling - it is very Cylonish. They are the new Blue, you know.
Major Life Vidding Decisions
1. I am 85% decided that the Kill Bill vid will be my premiere vid for Vividcon. I have some general tweaking to do with some of the effects and a few cuts, but by and large this vid is completed and I have lived with it for months and I am still very proud of it.
2. The Deadwood vid is not dead, just not a premiere vid. I did not want to cut the song and the theme is just so... I don't want to rush getting this vid right. I want to take my time and let it do and be what it needs to be and one of the things I really really need to do with this vid is admit that my current vidding set-up lacks the power necessary to use avisynth. Yes - the idea behind using the vob files directly as clipping source is incredibly valid and good and the quality is fantastic. But constant program freezes and reboots and being unable to scrub through clips are creating a level of frustration that is just styming all efforts to lose myself in the story. So, yeah - I'm gonna just go in the old fashioned way and clip for this vid and take my time and it will be what I needed it to be all along.
And now that there is not a deadline - I can linger all I want on this project. I am not keeping it going merely because![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
renenet has threatened my life if I abandon it. No. No, that would be exactly not why I am doing this.
meep.
3.f1renze has relieved me greatly by, well offering is such a strong word. I'm worried that I may have bull-dozed her into collaborating on my AtS S5 vid idea that started off fantastically and then just hit a big brick wall of denial. Kinda like S5 itself, if you wanta go that route. But Flo, precious Flo-bee, will now help me whip this sucker into shape and I don't have to watch Wes DIE!! YAY.
The plan is I get all wacky with the source and then Flo flips out and kills people. This is a very good plan.
4.
a) The matter remains then of the 3 Smallville vids that are still sitting on my PC. Two are so close to being done that really - it wouldn't take much at all. I could finish one tonight. The other isn't anywhere near being completed but it just looks so cool and I love the idea of what I was doing so much that it seems a shame that it never will happen.
But right now, if I have to even think about Smallville, I will scream. I have no idea what is going on but I just feel really finished with the entire thing. I don't think it is one thing so much as I am just tired of it all. The vids though, they are not bad vids. I feel terrible about not letting them live to their full vid-potential. They are like all the little almost slayers that never made it to Buffy's house. And I never made my Jonathan vid! Or the Lana one! But - ack! I just can't. Not now and so I am trimming the files on those vids, also, tonight and just ridding my HD of the clutter.
b). This decision feels good and I am relieved. Somewhat. I still kinda wish that there was a Vid In Progress Amnesty Day for vidders in which we could just upchuck those vids which really might one day work, but aren't now for whatever reason. Then I wouldn't feel so guilty because *someone* will like the unfinished things. Hell, people loved that little snippet I cut out of Battleflag and that wasn't even a vid! That was a part of a vid that never made it to the (also unfinished! A THEME) final vid.
But I have made decisions and I have plans and now I feel better about everything. Also, I know who killed Lilly Kane. I have no idea what this means - but Knowledge is Power.
Also food. Food is optional, too. I kind of like this feeling - it is very Cylonish. They are the new Blue, you know.
Major Life Vidding Decisions
1. I am 85% decided that the Kill Bill vid will be my premiere vid for Vividcon. I have some general tweaking to do with some of the effects and a few cuts, but by and large this vid is completed and I have lived with it for months and I am still very proud of it.
2. The Deadwood vid is not dead, just not a premiere vid. I did not want to cut the song and the theme is just so... I don't want to rush getting this vid right. I want to take my time and let it do and be what it needs to be and one of the things I really really need to do with this vid is admit that my current vidding set-up lacks the power necessary to use avisynth. Yes - the idea behind using the vob files directly as clipping source is incredibly valid and good and the quality is fantastic. But constant program freezes and reboots and being unable to scrub through clips are creating a level of frustration that is just styming all efforts to lose myself in the story. So, yeah - I'm gonna just go in the old fashioned way and clip for this vid and take my time and it will be what I needed it to be all along.
And now that there is not a deadline - I can linger all I want on this project. I am not keeping it going merely because
renenet has threatened my life if I abandon it. No. No, that would be exactly not why I am doing this. meep.
3.
f1renze has relieved me greatly by, well offering is such a strong word. I'm worried that I may have bull-dozed her into collaborating on my AtS S5 vid idea that started off fantastically and then just hit a big brick wall of denial. Kinda like S5 itself, if you wanta go that route. But Flo, precious Flo-bee, will now help me whip this sucker into shape and I don't have to watch Wes DIE!! YAY. The plan is I get all wacky with the source and then Flo flips out and kills people. This is a very good plan.
4.
a) The matter remains then of the 3 Smallville vids that are still sitting on my PC. Two are so close to being done that really - it wouldn't take much at all. I could finish one tonight. The other isn't anywhere near being completed but it just looks so cool and I love the idea of what I was doing so much that it seems a shame that it never will happen.
But right now, if I have to even think about Smallville, I will scream. I have no idea what is going on but I just feel really finished with the entire thing. I don't think it is one thing so much as I am just tired of it all. The vids though, they are not bad vids. I feel terrible about not letting them live to their full vid-potential. They are like all the little almost slayers that never made it to Buffy's house. And I never made my Jonathan vid! Or the Lana one! But - ack! I just can't. Not now and so I am trimming the files on those vids, also, tonight and just ridding my HD of the clutter.
b). This decision feels good and I am relieved. Somewhat. I still kinda wish that there was a Vid In Progress Amnesty Day for vidders in which we could just upchuck those vids which really might one day work, but aren't now for whatever reason. Then I wouldn't feel so guilty because *someone* will like the unfinished things. Hell, people loved that little snippet I cut out of Battleflag and that wasn't even a vid! That was a part of a vid that never made it to the (also unfinished! A THEME) final vid.
But I have made decisions and I have plans and now I feel better about everything. Also, I know who killed Lilly Kane. I have no idea what this means - but Knowledge is Power.
