Vidding Chatter

[colls]

Hello vidders!!
Welcome to the monthly(-ish) chatter post.


How're your vids going? --- the ones you can talk about at least, for anyone else participating in exchanges.


What was your vidding gateway?
Either the first vid you made or the first vid you saw that made you think "I want to do that".


P.S. Feel free to talk about other vidding things (or non-vidding things), make suggestions for future monthly discussion posts, etc.

Comments

[ljwrites]

I've been thinking forever about starting a Catradora video, but didn't get past processing Episode 1 footage for testing purposes and editing the song to the desired length (Total Eclipse of the Heart, because if that isn't the most extra song for this most extra of ships...). I just need to buckle down and give it my attention, and hope to start this week.

My very first video was a Disney's Brother Bear fanvid that is, in retrospect, of appalling quality. I didn't know anything about vidding, encoding, compression etc. and used a fricking Divx rip even though I had the DVD and could have ripped it at high quality lol. The vid still had some good ideas behind it, but the execution was embarrassing. Fortunately I've learned a lot more since then and my newer vids are light-years better, but I'll always remember that first earnest, fumbling attempt with cringing fondness.

[maristu]

I just finished remastering my first videos and it's taken all my strength to not "fix" them. Some of them are just SO BAD! But there's a story there, and a learning curve, so I left them as is and should be posting them soon!

[colls]

Last year I looked at a couple of my early vids and felt much the same - the *idea* was good, but.... :/
In any case, hopefully it's the love of the subject that shines greater than any technical flaws or self-criticism when you revisit your early vids. :)

For my own purposes, I decided to never again vid with cam footage. (LOL - yes I did that! and I'm not even ashamed anymore)