vidding_livejournal_ark2 | MUMMY'99 : "Bring Me To Life" by Evanescence (Ancksunamun/Imhotep)

Oh, you've read my mind... the idea for an Anck-su-Namun/Imhotep mvid has been floatin' about for a while (mainly a complete do-over of the mvid for Mummy Returns).

Downloading now!

Speaking of Mummy Returns, do you happen to have that mvid -- Live's "Forever May Not Be Long Enough"? I've rented the dvd, hoping to rip it, but my ripper won't allow it (grr....). Any help would totally be loved.... Will review your vid when it finishes downloading! ^_^ So can't wait to see it!

Yay! Thanks, LoL :D And, I'll try and rip that for you now, hehe!

That would be so great if you could succeed! 'Twould totally indebt me to ya. Schuld ist Schuld ist zurückgezahlt geschuldet, mein freund. {A debt owed is a debt repayed}.

92% complete! ... 94!

I really enjoyed this vid! It's well-edited and you used the dynamics in the music beautifully. I also liked how clear the narrative structure was - you got a really good feel for the movie from this vid. Well done!

Aww, thanks!!! I was actually kinda worried most of the movie fans would not like the lack of Brendan's great expressions :D I do have a thing for vidding movies in movie-order tho, so I tried to recap the most important moments, basically to explain just *how* Imhotep ended up back alive. I did notice that I featured the key a lot :D Oh, and vidding to the music? I *love* it! I always try to show as much internal movement as possible when I'm not fast-cutting, too... Hehe!

No matter how I watch Anck-su-Namun and Imhotep's first scene together, be it vid or movie form, I get chills. It's such a doomed love... so very sad and tragic. Sure, Imhotep has to kill a few guys here and there. Big deal, sez I. ;)

I know nothing of Pinnacle (I use Adobe After Effects and Windows Movie Maker) but, were it possible, I do suggest stretching or cropping the clip so the subtitles do not appear. Even though I've viewed the opening scene many times, the eyes are still drawn to subtitles or anything similar which pops up. This isn't such a good thing with the rate you were cutting; in the time it took the person's eyes to go to the subtitle, it was gone, so the eyes go next to view the entire clip, then another subtitle which is gone in a split second, then back to the clip... see what I'm saying? Just a good tip for ya.

I think after the initial opening scene, you lose focus of the song and seem more keen upon a summar of the movie. The scenes of Rick's escape, Evie's discovery, their first kiss (great matching to 'Breathe into me', I must admit!), Evie and Rick's dock conversation... all flies by so quickly that, had I not viewed this movie ~~obsessively many times with all three commentaries~~ a couple of times, I'd be lost. Great use of cutting around the scenes (clips...scenes... *digs up a thesaurus*) yet the cuts go by very, very quickly.

BENI!!! ...Sorry. Can't helpt but squee whenever I see that lil weasel. (I think he's cute... er, right, back to vid review... *ahem*)

Wonderful concept, mein freund, the use of this song to the pairing... I think using footage from 'The Mummy Returns' would have helped it immensely as would using clips only of Imhotep and Anck-su-Namun. Savvy?

Thanks!! Actually, this started out to be purely a movie recap, as most of my movie vids tend to be. I've encountered creative blocks when even contemplating shippy or any other specific-type vids... so maybe that's why it's just kinda blended together in a summary form. As for the subtitles... I did that intentionally. Sorry if it didn't work right... I just liked leaving in how their situation is explained in rapid word form, heh. I didnt notice that it distracts from the action. Cutting, hmm, yes, I'm a rapid cutter. You should see the Feel The Rain vid I did for GZ, oy. And lmao, I noticed I only included one shot each of Beni and Ardeth Bay. Perhaps they'll get their own vids too :D Becuz, Beni is yes, damn funny, hehe, and Ardeth Bay is cool! As for combining the sequel... maybe after I attempt it for SpiderMan. So far, my mind can only process one movie at a time... imagine how daunting the thought of vidding for my fave shows is... gah. And I want to do HP!! :D ...Working on that rip. I'll let you kno when it's uploaded!

I just liked leaving in how their situation is explained in rapid word form, heh.
This is a nice creative decision on your part. The only fault lies in the rapid movement of clips; perhaps slowed down enough for one to read what is said (ya know, at least to those who don't know every word by heart... like me ^^) it would've worked perfectly.

Beni is yes, damn funny, hehe, and Ardeth Bay is cool!
In one of my very, very first attempts at serious slash (heeey... say THAT three times fast!), I once attempted to, ya know, slash these two. Don't know why. Call it one of my Obscure Pairings with a Fandom of One.

....*bats away the vid*bunny for such a pairing*

imagine how daunting the thought of vidding for my fave shows is
No need ;) I'm doin' a vid for House M.D. (see it if you haven't) and, what's worse, one of the more obscure of the pairings: Dr. House/Dr. Chase. Started out silly, then with a single line from a single ep which aired one or two weeks ago, it all took on a seriously angsty edge. Oy...damn bunny with their damn ideas. They're killer, aren't they? ;) Le vid should be posted by tomorrow. I'm determined that it will be.

Ooh...thanks for the rip! Would request highest-quality-avi...but I'm no position to request at all, ja? Whatev you give me, I'll be totally grateful. Any rips I can do for ye, jus' let me know.

Lmao @ every word by heart. Hee. OMG @ Beni/AB!? Lmao!! And yes, bunnies are killer. No wonder Anya was so afriad of them! :D The rip seemed to go fine, or as fine as ripping from dvds goes for me. I ripped using Dvd Shrink (it was Ch1 of Title 16) then turned it into an AVi using vDub, with XViD codec, which is what I have been using to keep anything in HQ but at a neat filesize. Now, for me, it still wibbles in my video players, but never in my editor, just like anything I rip-from-dvds-then-turn-to-any-kind-of-avi. I have yet to figure out why this is. But hopefully, your editor won't notice it either. It's uploading to YouSendIt at the moment. Should be done sometime soon, its about 90MB. :D

Aye, Ardeth/Beni. The summary of that long-loooong-lost fic was, if I can remember it correctly, Ardeth rescues Beni.... or the latter doesn't die, just is abandoned outside the temple. (Oh, dammit, just thinking about the fic spurs up the ideas...) What think you of the pairing?

My ripper wouldn't open all the titles... the movie, of course, the behind-the-scenes thing, and the trailers... and that's it. I use ImTOO DvD Ripper... a crack version, o'course. I only use that for my ripping purposes; I rip straight to divx-avi... Quick Q: what's the diff between xvid and divx?

I'll see how it works in the editor and After Effects. Thanks again!! Much love for yous right now.

I haven't exactly figured out the diff between DivX and Xvid, except that their names are each other spelt backwards, lmao. But say, my vid? In 640x480 for Xvid (with 128kbps audio), it's only 36mb. In 640x480 for DivX, (same audio) it's 124mb! Weird, huh? I think Xvid may be the teeniest bit blurrier, but it's not noticeable at all, really. I don't kno what the video settings are for them, becuz theyre all at default, and becuz its too agonizing to mess with them since they just reset everytime. Btw, Dvd Shrink just rips to VOBs. I think, anyway. I've never noticed any options. When I rip a whole movie, it always divides the VOBs at like, 150mb each. So I use something called DGIndex.exe to demux the video and audio all in one piece. Then TMPGEnc.exe usually to mux em back together into their mpg form. Theyre not wibbley in their original mpg form, go figure, LoL. I think it could be some copy-protection thing, that annoys the converting to avi... dunno. Heh. *checks* Still uploading... As for the ship? Um... lmao. Never even considered it, but now thinking of it makes me giggle :D

Yay, techyness ^^ Sorry for lateness in reply; ya know how much time flies when one is vidding.

it's only 36mb. In 640x480 for DivX, (same audio) it's 124mb!
Not so weird, really. I think it's all about compression. For instance, in my Broadcast Graphics class (college course; the main project was a mock-newscast) we created the file in After Effects. After rendering, it came out to be 2gb! (It was only a minute!). Taking that 2gb avi into Premiere and resaving makes the avi out to be 200. Our prof said it was because of After Effects exporting without any compression to the file. So what ya get is SUPER HIGH QUALITY at the expense of one's hard drive, o'course.

becuz its too agonizing to mess with them since they just reset everytime.
Hmmm...now that is really, really odd. If one sets their preferences and such, it should -stay- that way until one changes them. The program resetting itself is quite a mystery.

Never even considered it, but now thinking of it makes me giggle
I hope in a good way, at least ^^; Might have to drabble these damn ideas out... least if I want to get -any- sleep...

Time is always flying for me. I swear, it only slows down when I actually watch it. Lmao. IceAge is on FOX at the moment, so I'm happily distracted too :D And my next vid? I hope to get done tonite. I just HAVE to make at least one more xmas vid. So which holiday movie is begging for attention most... Ernest Saves Christmas! :D Well, its actually the only xmas movie I have, currently, even tho I been meaning to get my other faves, lmao! ...I think I meant the codec settings. Hehe. Techyness? LoL! And yay, ficlets! First: a gift (http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=21CQVG1NE5FGS1EB31SPHHQORH)! ^-^

Aye... time is a trickster, ain't it? Ya glance at it one moment, and the next time ya view it, an hour has passed. Time flies when you're arguing with ideas and -attempting- to organize them.

Ernest Saves X-Mas as a vid, eh? Iiiiinteresting. What song might ye be thinkin' of using?

*clickies gift happily* Yay for high-speed! Should have it in five minutes.

Hee. No idea what song. Has to be one of my fave xmas ones but one that I won't get sick of. But then, I tend to get sick of even my favoritest of favorites when I tend to overplay them... lmao. To address some other things in previous comments: Yes, that opening scene is definitely chilling. Gah @ the tragedy. And especially in the second movie, when after all he has gone thru for her, she leaves him and tries to save herself. Gah! ...I did the first like, 1:20 of the vid around Oct, and up to 1:38 in Nov. When I went back to it just this week, that's when I finished the rest. Random tidbit: I obsess over every. single. frame. when editing my vids. That's 30 per second! (Well, 29.97, hee) ...I haven't seen "House" but that guy looks so much like the creepy dude from "MadTV", lmao.

Heh... I'm sorta the opposite with songs. Anytime I even acquire a new song, I tend to listen to it at least twenty times over the course of the day. I've no idea why... I just do.

when after all he has gone thru for her, she leaves him and tries to save herself.
She does?? I've watched most of the second movie recently, though not all of it (no worries about spoilage.. I've seen it many times over; revisiting for nostalgia sake). Now, that seems -completely- against her entire character. By the end, she's no longer Meela as, if I'm correct, she kills herself in revisiting her past and he then resurrects Anck-su-Namun (man, when I watched that scene a few days ago, I was entirely spell-bound...the score, emotion, editing, EVERYTHING just blew me away!) Why she'd abandon her love makes no sense to me...

Random tidbit: I obsess over every. single. frame. when editing my vids. That's 30 per second!
So feel ya on this one. I test my vids constantly; MM isn't very good for the in-program previews, so I save it to the highest quality, then watch it in the player. Many times; at the minimum of thrice. Everyhing has to look just RIGHT before I move on. The downside to this is that I become so used to seeing clips in certain areas that it's difficult to notice mistakes. *shrug*

I haven't seen "House" but that guy looks so much like the creepy dude from "MadTV", lmao.
They did a spoof on that... wasn't very good, though.

Courtesy of a community that dare not speak its name, I give you the {unaired} Pilot episode (http://unextendable.com/house/100%20-%20Unaired%20Pilot.mpeg) (right click-save as). The coloring for the first ep is very.... sun-kissed, I suppose you could say. It's only for this ep, though.

The difference between unaired Pilot and aired? Not much... just a cane-grabbing scene and a bit with the ducklings (the three experts working for Dr. House which was moved to the second ep).

A word of caution: The show is an illness, an infectious disease. The only cure is also the only symptom. ;)

I await your thoughts of the ep.

Well, of course new songs get overplayed without question :D No opposite there, lmao. The only reason I mention possibilities of getting sick of them is precisely becuz my tendency to overplay, hee. Re: the end scene in M2: Yes, she does! At least that's the way it seems when I watched it. Rember, both Rick and Im are hanging on the ledge, and the place is collapsing; Evy goes to help Rick, and there's this big moment where A makes a choice whether to go save Im and she gets scared and doesn't... Im's face as she left is all gah!sadness and that's when he lets go, right after giving Rick a look like, how lucky Evy came back for him, risking her life (again)... Okay, now I need to re-watch that scene. Heh. *reloads dvd* Also, I'll give your "House" a chance, hehe, since you linked the first ep :D *dLs*

Evy goes to help Rick, and there's this big moment where A makes a choice whether to go save Im and she gets scared and doesn't... Im's face as she left is all gah!sadness and that's when he lets go, right after giving Rick a look like, how lucky Evy came back for him, risking her life (again)...
Oh, that ending is --so-- getting rewatched. If it's as you say, it's so fuckin' PERFECT for this idea I have. Ah...angst. So loved.

From a character standpoint, though... still makes me icky with the mere -idea- she'd leave him. Bad way for the secondary villain of the movie (though I never thought of him as such) to go out.

By the by, I must thank ye once more for the excellent rip. So perfect! A few tv-lines 'round the edges...but nothin' a lil soft focus couldn't fix.

Random trivia: Just for kicks, I imported the vid into After Effects then exported it out -- doing nothing to the vid -- just to see the file size. It was, and I'm not kidding, 6.72 GB. The vid was so laggy, though, I doubt I could've used it for editing purposes.

I rewatched it and gah! at the sadness! He even pleads for her to help him and she just runs away! And then meets the same fate as Beni. Gah! ...Glad you like the rip! :D Anything I could do LoL... As for the epi, um, I watched it, it was okay... doesnt catch my interest really, my addiction (the tv area, hehe) leans more towards sappy adventure stuff (Smallville, vMars, Charmed, Lost, Surface, hee), altho it does seem pretty good. I'd rank it somewhere between CSi:Miami (which I like) and Cold Case (which is also good but I don't catch every epi). Fyi, I dont watch CSi/CSi:NY/etc but I do love ER, L&O:SVU, Boston Legal... etc etc. :D I noticed from your info, you also like XMen? I have a vid for Pyro if you're interested... LoL

MUMMY'99 : "Bring Me To Life" by Evanescence (Ancksunamun/Imhotep)

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