Mea Culpa and Look at Me A-Speakin' Latin

[sisabet]

So last night I went to lay down on the couch, watch a bit of tv for a minute and then get up and do stuff.

I *did* get up. Unfortunately it was at 7:00 this morning. So if you are one of the many vidders waiting on my lazy ass for comments: I am *so* sorry. I will be online tonight, I will be online tonight, I will be online tonight.

Unless your name starts with SD and ends in Wolfpup. If so - that sucker is finished. One of the transitions looked wonky but I think it is just my VCL (or is VLC?) player. It didn't look wonky before. Other than that - I loved the new stuff (but you knew I would. Get someone who is *objective* about this character because I am so not. I am trying to figure out a way to get Flo to let me put him in "Float On" cause I am certain he is relevant... in an Angel vid).

Which brings me to another one of my more constant thoughts lately: I am just a bad bad beta. I am easily seduced by the shiny - I make leaps to make sense of a vid (I am always surprised when I watch a vid and then turn to discuss it with someone else and I mention that the vid was obviously a journey that X character took internally as they examined their life up and to that point and then abandoned their faith and hope and wallowed in nihilism until character Y brought back a semblance of hope and the other person looks at me like I am on crack. Which, yes - I am. But this is so obviously what the vid is about).

I am trying to abandon the whole beta-as-I-would-vid approach, which is just a disservice to the vidder. The idea is to make the vid as coherant and as complete as possible. Figuring out how to accomplish that and separating if from the I-would-do-it-like this is hard, and I am still working on that. I'm also blessed with so many good vids lately - it has really been a huge bounty and I cannot wait until Vividcon for y'all to see.

In completely other news: My mother just called to give me an update -- major crap happening with the family yesterday as Cappy was in a wreck (she is fine) and my grandfather's house caught on fire (the shed is gone but the house is still intact) and also - to tell me what happened on Smallville last night. If you ever need someone to recap an episode - go to my mother cause that was just funny. The thing that cracks me up the most is that she cannot remember that Lana's boyfriend's name is Jason so she calls him Riley. That is comedy *gold* right there.

Comments

[f1renze.livejournal.com]

If people were not MEAN last night by not letting me watch SDW's vid because I am behind on BSG, I would know which dude you're talking about. Is it Apollo? Cause yeah - I can see him in "Float On". He can blink to the beat and jam with the camel.

I LOVE the way you beta! Cause I really think your "leaps to make sense of a vid" actually helps the vidder. But you already know this.

I'm sorry to hear about the wreck and the fire! But glad everything is okay.

[sdwolfpup.livejournal.com]

I'll double-check the vid again but: Woo hoo! Thank you!

He is relevant in all vids, he adds gravitas and dignity. And your feedback helped a lot, it made me figure out why he's in my vid. :)

Sorry to hear about the crap happenings, but glad that everyone is all right.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Did you tell them that you've already seen "Masterpiece"? Poor Flo - being protected from being spoiled. I understand. I was never able to avoid vids just cause I was in the middle of something. Hell, the only reason I watched Donnie Darko when I did was because h.l finished her vid and I couldn't stand not to see it.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

If you had told me a few years ago that I would be all primal-a-ga-ga in my lizard brain over a character played by Edward James Olmos, I'd have looked at you funny.

Now I can't stop thinking that if he'd been around, Fred would have survived Wolfram and Hart. Not Wes - I don't think he could have done anything for Wes. But Fred... yeah, she'd be okay.

[f1renze.livejournal.com]

AHA! I did not. Instead I kept saying "But this is not Farscape!" which is just the wrong way to go about things.

You're not a bad beta!

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

You beta from your heart, and for those of us who try to work The Big Emotion, that's *incredibly* valuable.

I believe in using different styles of betas for each project. I often need a renenet or elynross to make sure that the structure and narrative of the vid make sense, and I can always benefit from a killabeez or morgandawn to tell me if my timing's off, and I love having a permetaform or a lierdumoa for effects tips and shiny-squee and beatwhoring. But if I want to know if I've just punched someone in the gut? If I want someone to get not just the top two levels but the insidious third layer of contextual meaning? If I want to make sure that the vid is ineffably *oomphy*? It's you or sockkpuppett that I need. And I do need you.

::clings to all betas::