Another new Vid

[thedothatgirl]

Well this took lots of tweeking and messing around but I've finally finished it.

Siva by Smashing Pumpkins - Illyria - the smurf smash.


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Also a confession - I am a poor one to have on your flist charmax and bradcpu I owe you both feedback and once I get back from this weekends family outings I will post some, sorry for taking so long - real life is just getting in the way.

Comments

[bradcpu.livejournal.com]

Argh! I want to watch this, but I'm trying to stay unspoiled for Angel post-S1 (non-Faith). I don't even know who this character is... so I'm guessing I should not watch.

Speaking of which, no worries about feedback for Glory. I just hope you enjoyed it. In the end, that's all that matters.

[thedothatgirl.livejournal.com]

Don't watch it until you've seen all of Angel - seriously, don't get spoilt.

Also I haven't even watched Glory yet - it's burning a hole in my hard drive but we are out again this weekend and I desperately want some 'me' time to catch up on viewing and whatnot.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

I see overlays in there and they look great. Did you manage to get that WMM tutorial to work for you? I have no idea how you can do fast cutting in that program. I take my hat off to you for your patience.

I'm not a huge Smashing Pumpkins fan but those lyrics are just perfect for Illyria. It's a great choice for showing how imperious she can be.

[thedothatgirl.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the fb Charmax, all done with WMM - the overlay method is not as flexible as Adobe (obviously) as it means chopping up one long clip if you want to run it over several others or vice versa. As for the fast cutting I reallly slapped WMM about this time but she fought back and wa s very, very awkward. There is no clip locking facility so it is so easy to knock everything out of sequence in this linear editing. I also found some more speed and colourisation add ons for WMM which were very useful.

I got another gig of memory for my birthday so I am going to see if it helps with running adobe because I don't think my nerves will take another vid edited like this in WMM.

As for the song - not my usual choice but I felt so violent and full or arrogance that I got the Illyria vibe straight away. As for the lyrics - I worked to a copy off the net and it wasn't until I rechecked before publishing lyrics on my site that I found the whole first verse and part of the chorus were wrong in my original draft and the cirrect words changed the meaning entirely. Oh well, such is life.

Anyways I ramble - thanks for watching.

[salymander.livejournal.com]

That was made of awesome. You totally rule in video making. I gotta get back into it--I never did finish my first vid.



Tell me once again what editing program you use, the one I downloaded died along with my old hard drive.

[thedothatgirl.livejournal.com]

Hehe! Glad you liked it.

I use WMM2 which comes free with XP - it is very basic (I have found some add ons to enhance effects) but a good place to start to see if you want to continue with vidding. I also use on occasion Adobe Prem Pro which is the opposite of WMM2. Complex and memeory hungry can be impossible.

[salymander.livejournal.com]

I did like it a lot--actually you made me like Illyria more--when she was on the show (I watched it all in one sitting on DVD) my bro and I had a difficult time with her as were were all depressed and sad with Wesley.


Thanks for the info. It's appreciated A LOT. Hope you had a fabulous saturday!

[thedothatgirl.livejournal.com]

I did thanks !

memeory hungry indeed - I meant 'memory' hungry !!

Feel free to ask me if you get stuck with WMM or if I can't help try here
http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net at the forums