gwyn | Fighting with Don't Fight in the Snow

How the frak did it get to be August 1st already? We just started summer a few days ago here in Seattle. This sucks.

I've had a few vid ideas seize hold of me, but I'm having trouble getting started on them. I'm finally able to breathe a bit with the work thing (one of the authors has hied off to parts unknown for vacay, so won't need his edits back till end of August, which, bad for me in that it'll be another month before money rolls in, but good for me too in that I can breathe). So I can actually try to vid, although all the recent fracas related to VVC haters has left me feeling quite... less than thrilled with vidding in general.

Since I am a bit stymied still, I thought about remastering some old vids, and once again found myself wanting to remaster all the vids on the first disc I ever put out with co-vidders, Don't Fight in the Snow. I can remaster digitally all vids except one, which is Jo's, and so I don't feel it's appropriate for me to remake it (I would love it beyond reason if we could have a remastered copy, myself, because the name of the disc comes from that vid, so, you know...). It's a shitload of work though.

There aren't a lot of vids on the disc, because DVDs were still pretty new at the time (when

killabeez graciously made the compilation for us, she made it in both disc and VCR versions, and as I remember, it was primarily VCR versions that went out). But it's still a crapload of time -- I have to identify all the clips (not so easy with some of the shows; I cannot for the life of me remember where some of the shots in Sandy's and my Due South vid Stranded are located), clip all the shows/movies, and then try to match the shots. I know some people put the old video versions in their timeline and cut to that, but I have never found that successful for me, so I have to constantly refer back to the original vid.

It would be a long project. And I don't know if there's even any possible interest in such a thing. I still don't really know how to put a DVD online for download, but I could look into that, although I have a feeling space might be the biggest issue in that regard. But whatever I do, I'd like to feel like it's worth the time -- remasters are so much work for pretty much nil reward, and I would love to know if anyone is interested in this disc possibility.

Some of the vids are the only ones I know of for the fandom (Second Sight, for instance), and some of them are popular shows (Buffy), and some of them are just... I don't know, maybe of their time might be a good way to describe them (like the Witchblade vid, which, I don't know if anyone really wants to see a six-minute darkwave song for a rarely seen show at this point -- really, it seemed like a good idea at the time). The fandoms on the disc included two Mag 7 vids, Tombstone, Firefly (My Beautiful Reward, which has already been remastered), Buffy, Due South, Second Sight, Witchblade, La Femme Nikita, and the aforementioned Band of Brothers vid that started the whole thing, if we can get it.

And now that I've said that, I have to take a moment to squee about Flashpoint Friday night. Oh, show, you are so earnestly corny in that inimitable Canadian TV way, and I heart you so, especially when you give me Ed and Greg slashiness at the end and practically serve it up to me on a silver platter with caviar and toast points on the side. And OMG Hugh Dillon in that leather jacket at the end! I just about had a heart attack. My Hugh love is solely centered around Ed Lane and his (Hugh's) relationship to the show, so that makes me a little different from most of the Hugh fans I know, but when they give me that I just... I want to lock him away in my bedroom and do bad things with him.