New Queer as Folk Vid, song:Your Winter by Sister Hazel

[paraka]

Fandom: Queer as Folk
Vidders: paraka and raxhel
Vid Title: Your Winter (please right click and "save target as...")
Website:Paraka Productions
Song: Your Winter
Artist: Sister Hazel
Pairing: Brian/Justin,
Ratings and warnings: NC-17, spoilers up to 513
Summary: This is my scrooged_media secret santa assignment.
fatedcinderella requested a B/J vid set to Your Winter by Sister Hazel.

This is also my first collaboration, and was made with the help of raxhel.

Feedback is loved! :)

iMovie clips

[catch-me-first.livejournal.com]

Hi, I hope somebody here will be able to help me out....
I recently bought an Apple iBook and am using iMovie HD to edit video clips (obtained via Limewire). I had a problem extracting the audio from the videos when in iMovie, turned out it was because the clips were MPEG demuxed, so I got an Extractor application and managed to convert the audio tracks into mp3 through iTunes. In iMovie, I then imported the mp3 underneath the video. I've been cutting my clips by "splitting at playhead" for both the video and the audio. My problem is, I want to be able to use the clips I've cut in other projects, but whenever I try to copy one of the cut clips and paste it into a new project (or a folder on the computer) it pastes the entire thing (ie 40 minutes of sound or video when the clip should only be 20 secs). Is there something I'm missing? Also, I keep reading that when you create an iMovie project it should automatically create a Media folder which holds all your clips, but that's not happening for me.
Would be so grateful if someone can clear things up for me.

Im a newbie

[mind-my-eyes.livejournal.com]

Hey everyone I'm a newbie here. My name is Fischer and I have been vidding for about a year now. I only do Harry Potter videos now well, basically because I'm obsessed. lol. so here is my latest video. If you like you can see more of my stuff at my community HPMTV.

http://community.livejournal.com/hpmtv/


Music by: Madonna


Description: I absolutely LOVE Madonna and i have always loved this song for some reason even though it is not one of her big hits, probably because its major 80's too. lol. So I finally one day really listened to the lyrics and thought wow this could be a good HP vid. It's about how Harry has learned all of these new things ( Voldermort's past) and how hes going to deal with it and how he will surive it. its basically a 6th year vid so i will re-do this one once that movie comes out.


Link: http://www.savefile.com/files/6271860


Editor's Note: this vidoe doesnt have alot of editing tricks, I bascially let the song make the video work. So i hope you like it



I LOVE COMMENTS!!!

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[angelofmusicx08.livejournal.com]

New Music Video!



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[angelofmusicx08.livejournal.com]

hp_vchallenge

a new harry potter video challenge!

Feedback 1/3: Boom. (also Intention, Audience and Why Vid discussion)

[absolutedestiny.livejournal.com]

A few weeks ago I offered to give some feedback on 3 vids. This is the first piece of feedback I'm giving.

This particular piece will also debate some of the issues raised by the vid - namely those of the authorial intention of vidders, the importance of context, the relationship between vid and audience, the question of why different people vid and more!

Note for Brits: From this moment on, when this article refers to "football" it is the American Football variant rather than the beautiful game.

Vid: "Boom" by kitakatzz
Song: "Boom" by P.O.D
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis (a fandom I know absolutely nothing about, so bear that in mind)

This vid is a perfect vid to start off this foray into spurious acts of feedback charity. For several reasons, in fact. First, there are simple things to improve upon, so advice on editing methods and technicalities are sure to be useful. Second the vidder is keen about making vids and that's a good thing. Third, it allows me to elucidate about some of the interesting meta-ponderings that this sort of vid inspires which makes it a useful thing for other readers too. What I don't know presently is how much the vidder is keen to learn or how much further they want to take their hobby. I guess what it comes down to is whether this vidder will want to move onto more mature and involved works or whether they are happy making vids of a similar nature with perhaps some improved editing. I'm going to offer advice the way I see it and whatever the vidder wishes to do with this advice is fine by me.

( Enter, Evil Critic )

( Boom as simple action entertainment with comic undertones and character love. )

( Using Simple Narrative Tricks )

( Stuck in the fandom? )

( What is it saying? Is it saying what you want it to say? )

And there's the rub.

( Blood from a stone. )

( Making things AWSM )

( Technicalities and general editing practices )

Is all this worth it?

Precision editing can be a long, arduous process filled with pain - but the end result can be very satisfying. It all depends on what you want from vidding. From a certain point of view, Boom is actually a perfect vid. It plays around with some fun footage, features good character moments and uses a song the vidder likes. As a personal project, Boom does what the vidder wanted. Who could ask for more? If the vidder wanted to go further there are nearly limitless additional options. Some vidders like the challenge and results that complex, precisely composed vids can offer but each person enters this hobby for a different reason. Other vidders like to make vids that appeal to fandom in general and will work hard to make their vids appeal to the greatest number of people. I know vidders who make vids just for other vidders. It all depends on what you want from the hobby. Watch your shows, listen to your music, make your vids, enjoy them and be proud.

kitakatzz: I hope you find some of this discussion useful. If you want to ask me about any particular aspects of what I've said or about other parts of your video then feel free to ask.

@everyone else: Feel free to comment on any of the ideas presented here. The whole point of this kind of feedback is to get people talking about these basic issues and thinking about how they relate to vids and vid fandom.