A small change to the vids site

[gwyn]

I quietly removed my password protection from my vids site this week. I don't think it'll make any difference in the long run, since it's not like it's a hot place to visit even when I have new vids, but in case you're one of the few people who does rec a vid posted there, you don't have to include the PW info. I want to see how it goes in terms of hotlinking and such. I really don't want to have to upload the gajillion vids I have there again after zipping them, to prevent hotlinking, but it's also hard for me to imagine anyone's going to go there to hotlink. And I guess if the PTB ever come calling, I'll call the OTW. ;-)

In other vid news, I spent a few hundred hours putting my working file on the new iMac so I could work on my Club Vivid vid on it, but alas, it was not to be. So I still have to vid on my old iMac until I get FC pro. Durr. they have seriously changed the iMovie program. I figured I'd just use iMovie again since I wasn't planning on any fancy filters or transitions or anything, but it works with files in a different way from the older version I was using. And it's not like I have any time. I don't know that I've ever worked this closely against a deadline for a vid before!

And other vid things... I am so way behind on vid recs it's ridiculous. I'm embarrassed -- they go so far back that it's almost back to VVC since I did anything. Off the top of my head I can think of a bunch of vids I wanted to mention and never go around to it (sol_se's Set the Fire to the Third Bar, sdwolfpup's I Don't Care As Long As You Sing, Xandra's Skinner/Scully vid --yes!!! -- to Running Up That Hill), and a whole bunch more and gah... I just haven't. There was a lovely serious vid for Jack on Torchwood at the Pacificon vid show I hadn't seen before, and I really should get going and talk about these. Someone light a fire under my ass, okay?

Although, I have a pet peeve I want to talk about. I realize it's, in comparison to just making it clear to newbie vidders that they should make full-quality video copies of their files in case someone wants to show them at a con, a smaller issue. I mean, it's more important that they think beyond web copies at all. But why do so few vidders seem to understand the title safe area? Jo tells me that it's not obvious on Premiere, and maybe it's because I'm a Mac person and that view is really accessible and right there, that I think it should be more well known, but there were quite a few vids that when watching them on a large screen, I literally couldn't read who the vidder was and what the song was. And that was on a large projection screen! They used crabbed, tiny fancy type and half of it was missing off the left or right half of the screen. I wish this was something I could communicate to people, to think about viewing your titles and credits with the title safe area boundaries turned on. Then those of us who were blown away by your vid can actually see who you are. What a concept!

BTW, Blues is quite fascinated by vidding. He is fascinated by the computer in general, and typing mesmerizes him, but he likes to chase the curser and the clips when I vid.

Comments

[mer1973.livejournal.com]

wheee!

Once upon a time, I had the password, but was too chagrined to say anything when I lost it...

Thank you!

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Oh noes! YOu should totally have said something! It's only sternly worded because I get a lot of mail from idiots. I'm really not that dangerous, and would never bite.

[par-avion.livejournal.com]

iMovie 08 SUCKS. Our customers are revelling against it. You can DL iMovie HD 6 from the website:

http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/imovieHD6.html

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

What is it exactly they hate? I"m really curious. I just couldn't figure out the interface for importing the clips I'd captured in iMovie on the old Mac. It took me almost an hour, and treated them as "events" in the timeline, rather than clips with thumbnails. I still haven't figured out what events are actually. I thought that should be the timeline.

If I get 6, will it run side by side, or will I have to uninstall 8?

[par-avion.livejournal.com]

It's a very different program, and they removed a lot of he transitions, for example. (It feels like they dumbed down iMovie to get people o switch to FCE for more advanced stuff).

Apple added in a few missing features in the recent update to iMovie 08 (like frame-accurate editing), but it is still missing support for plugins, muliple audio tracks, timeline view etc.

You can have both imovie 06 and 08 on your computer at the same time. DLing 06 will not mess with 08.

[sdwolfpup.livejournal.com]

Awwwww. Blues is so adorable.

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

*waves*

Just wanted to let you know I dl'ed your M7 vid tonight! I've seen it rec'ced several places, and I'm happy to have your look at the boys!

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

God, I have really got to recut that, and get Jo going on recutting our other older M7 vids. The clips are so washed out and so full of video noise. But I am lazy!

Hope you enjoy it.

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

I really liked it, Gwyn! The song really fits all those the wide open shots.

That's a lot of eye-fucking. ;)

[absolutedestiny.livejournal.com]

Premiere on windows has a title-safe overlay on the monitor as does basically every non-windows-movie-maker program I've used.

However, just because it's there doesn't mean they know what it's for :)

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Too true. I may have to start some kind of benefit organization for the promotion of title-safe vidding. As soon as I can come up with a catchy acronym that will sound vaguely pornish.