Vidding continues
Sep. 14th, 2019 01:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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equinox_exchange treat I'm working on and this week I finished the first draft! It may be the ONLY draft because iMovie is insane and doesn't let you save versions of things, but most likely I'll constantly mess with it until the deadline. I do need to reclip at least one scene and there's a couple things that don't quite fit and scenes I really wanted to put in somewhere so we shall see. Vidding is hard! My struggles include:
1) Being overly obsessive with clipping. Seriously, so many clips. I took a truly ridiculous number in the first quarter of my canon (I'll be circumspect here since it's a surprise exchange) and then I gave up more toward the end because I kind of hate clipping. This also made the editing difficult because I had so many clips to sort through.
2) QuickTime for taking clips gives an option of full screen or cropping out a section and I foolishly did full screen for a bit which meant I then had to crop out my task bar and stuff in iMovie which is a bunch of extra work. Luckily I realized this early and stared taking section clips.
3) iMovie is actually really nice and intuitive but as mentioned above, you can't save versions so when I messed something up there's nothing to revert back to. Also I have no idea where the iMovie file is even stored which gives me heartburn.
4) iMovie forces you into linear editing. I wanted to vid the chorus since I knew what clips I wanted to use there and not in early places but you can't skip ahead and anchor things. Move anything ever and the whole timeline fucks up. I have to check how long any clips are and do the math if I want to swap clips or cut one down to add another. I don't love this. I don't write linearly and I don't want to vid linearly!
5) Vidding is way more kill your darlings than I'm used to. In writing, I really don't often delete stuff I wrote except in extreme cases, even if I maybe should. Vidding, you pretty much have to. I want to keep an entire twenty second long clip I love but it's like, no, you can have two seconds of that clip, choose wisely.
6) My computer heats up horribly using iMovie. It kind of does with Photoshop too even though I don't think I'm using that much processing power. This is supposed to be a workhorse of a computer and it can't even handle it's own programs?? The heating up thing is actually why I gave up my computer for around 7 years to get a new version but it immediately had the same problem. I guess Macs just suck at heat dispersal in general. I'd switch but I can never find anything else with such a good keyboard and trackpad which is really important to me.
7) My computer constantly runs out of space even though I feel like I have practically nothing on it. I had to delete programs for the sake of working on this and I should probably save all my vid files off externally somewhere because they seem like they take up a lot of space. And delete all my clips although they took so much time! Maybe I'll make some gifsets with them too first. I wish there was like a clip repository I could donate some of them to.
Anyway, this probably sounds like I don't like vidding but I actually really like it! It suits my pedantic soul. I have three more ideas for next ones. Not that I'll give up writing in favor of it though. I also have a WIP coming along pretty well which is always nice :)
equinox_exchange treat I'm working on and this week I finished the first draft! It may be the ONLY draft because iMovie is insane and doesn't let you save versions of things, but most likely I'll constantly mess with it until the deadline. I do need to reclip at least one scene and there's a couple things that don't quite fit and scenes I really wanted to put in somewhere so we shall see. Vidding is hard! My struggles include: 1) Being overly obsessive with clipping. Seriously, so many clips. I took a truly ridiculous number in the first quarter of my canon (I'll be circumspect here since it's a surprise exchange) and then I gave up more toward the end because I kind of hate clipping. This also made the editing difficult because I had so many clips to sort through.
2) QuickTime for taking clips gives an option of full screen or cropping out a section and I foolishly did full screen for a bit which meant I then had to crop out my task bar and stuff in iMovie which is a bunch of extra work. Luckily I realized this early and stared taking section clips.
3) iMovie is actually really nice and intuitive but as mentioned above, you can't save versions so when I messed something up there's nothing to revert back to. Also I have no idea where the iMovie file is even stored which gives me heartburn.
4) iMovie forces you into linear editing. I wanted to vid the chorus since I knew what clips I wanted to use there and not in early places but you can't skip ahead and anchor things. Move anything ever and the whole timeline fucks up. I have to check how long any clips are and do the math if I want to swap clips or cut one down to add another. I don't love this. I don't write linearly and I don't want to vid linearly!
5) Vidding is way more kill your darlings than I'm used to. In writing, I really don't often delete stuff I wrote except in extreme cases, even if I maybe should. Vidding, you pretty much have to. I want to keep an entire twenty second long clip I love but it's like, no, you can have two seconds of that clip, choose wisely.
6) My computer heats up horribly using iMovie. It kind of does with Photoshop too even though I don't think I'm using that much processing power. This is supposed to be a workhorse of a computer and it can't even handle it's own programs?? The heating up thing is actually why I gave up my computer for around 7 years to get a new version but it immediately had the same problem. I guess Macs just suck at heat dispersal in general. I'd switch but I can never find anything else with such a good keyboard and trackpad which is really important to me.
7) My computer constantly runs out of space even though I feel like I have practically nothing on it. I had to delete programs for the sake of working on this and I should probably save all my vid files off externally somewhere because they seem like they take up a lot of space. And delete all my clips although they took so much time! Maybe I'll make some gifsets with them too first. I wish there was like a clip repository I could donate some of them to.
Anyway, this probably sounds like I don't like vidding but I actually really like it! It suits my pedantic soul. I have three more ideas for next ones. Not that I'll give up writing in favor of it though. I also have a WIP coming along pretty well which is always nice :)
