VID: This Year's Love (Criminal Minds, Hotch/Rossi)

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Song: This Year's Love by David Gray
Vidder: Rhysenn (iscaris)
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Pairing: Hotch/Rossi
Source: Season 3 and 4. No plot spoilers for finale.

Notes: This is a companion vid to my Hotch/Rossi story How the Light Gets In.
A certain moment in the finale totally resonated with this fic, which was written and posted before that, and I just had to revel in the serendipity. ♥


( click here to watch or download the vid )

 

DEXTER - Seeing Red (Character Study)

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Series: Dexter

Title: Seeing Red

Music: "This Night" by Black Lab

Description: Character study of brothers Dexter and Brian. Heavy focus on season one, looking at their complex, tragic relationship and the nightmare from their childhood that left them so disturbed.

Links: Embedded video and download links here
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Round 80 awards are up @ Sunnydale Stories, New Video Challenge

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Round 80 awards are up at Sunnydale Stories, see below for 80 Winners link.

Round 81 will be open on September 1, 2009 at Sunnydale Stories Video Awards. The awards will be presented for videos pertaining to Angel the Series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Bones, Chance the movie, Dollhouse, Firefly/Serenity, Smallville (Season 5), and Supernatural. (I DO NOT ACCEPT ANY OTHER FANDOM, that means, NO Veronica Mars, NO One Tree Hill, NO Gilmore Girls, etc.)

RULES
CATEGORIES
SUBMIT
R81 OPENS SEPTEMBER 1, 2009
R80 WINNERS
BUFFY CHARACTER VIDEO CHALLENGE WINNERS

( SEXY DEAN WINCHESTER VIDEO CHALLENGE DETAILS )

One month left to submit vids for Azkatraz vidding show

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There's just one month left to submit your vids to the Azkatraz vidding show so I made a little promo vid...

( Promo Vid Under the Cut )

Remember these do not have to be new vids so please send in suggestions for you old favorites. Email vids@hp2009.org or see here for more information.

Update on my YouTube saga

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My dispute was unsuccessful, so I guess that's that. I still don't understand why my video was yanked when there are a several Burn Notice videos on YT that are sitting there untouched.

Music Video: Barney/Robin - No More Wishing

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Barney/Robin - No More Wishing
by Hayley Taylor

HERE @ erychan86

Characters: Barney and Robin
Spoiler: How I Met Jour Mother 4x24 The Leap
Song: Hayley Taylor - No More Wishing
Clips from: How I Met Your Mother

Newbie(ish) seeking urgent help re: aspect ratio & cropping.

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Right, so I've delved through memories, webpages attempted to understand calculator tools, all to no avail, so I'm hoping that somebody here might be able to help me out.

I'd like to make a vid using different avi sources (fandom being Star Trek).

The majority of the footage (TOS series) would be from avi files with a resolution of 512x384, which as I understand it, just means it's an unusual resolution, but still an AR of 4/3, right?

The problem arises from both of the film avi files I have being of what I assume to be... odd aspect ratios. (Resolutions being 720x304 and 704x304 respectively. In my very, very basic understanding of ARs, I'd assume that means their ARs are 2.37:1 and 2.31:1 respectively, but I suspect I'm missing a whole new level of complexity here.)

Obviously, I can't just chuck'em in like that - or resize them, as I want to maintain the proper AR of the film files, just crop them to make them fit the series resolution.

I do my vidding (well, the 2 vids I made years ago) in WMM, and would like to stick to this, if at all possible. (Computer system not being the best and I suspect it wouldn't cope with high-memory requiring programs, and neither would I!)

I have a copy of Total Video Converter, however, which appears to include functions for not only resizing, but also cropping vid files.

And I cannot for the life of me figure out how to go about the cropping. Do cropping numbers in such programs correspond directly to pixels? (Ie, would I just have to, in simple terms, deduct the amount of pixels from each side to reach the equivalent ratio of the main source of clips manually? Also, given that the height ratio of the film files is less than that of the series files, would I first need to resize the film clips and then crop top and bottom accordingly?

Or is there, by any chance, some neat simple program out there that can simply give me the values required for cropping if provided with the respective source and target resolutions (widthxheight)?

If anybody could shed any light on this, it would be hugely, hugely appreciated, because this differing aspect ratio thing is seriously doing my head in. *makes puppy eyes and offers intarwebs brownies*

(crossposted to vidding_tech)

Re: Vid Theft

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Great news, everybody! Thanks to your help the video has been removed by the person who stole it. Thanks again for your support, the response I got was simply AMAZING, it wouldn't have happened without you!

SPN: Already Over (Sam & Castiel)

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Title: Already Over [Remastered]
Artist: Red
Vidder: ruskiebiz
Fandom: Supernatural
Characters/Pairing: Sam/Castiel
Spoilers: Up to 4.20
Warnings: Violence, angst, AU. Can be considered slash or otherwise. Song cut down to about 2 minutes.
Summary: Sam believes Castiel was killed by the hands of demons. The Impala suddenly stalls in front of a motel and Sam/Dean find Castiel there almost as good as new. The visit is short-lived. Sam tries to figure out what happened and goes searching for the angel. His logic and reasoning goes out the window at first as he's just happy to see Castiel again. In the end, however, he questions if Castiel is really who says he is.

Find it here