It's mostly just a pimp post

[charmax]

astartexx I blame you. This vid/let is eating my brain. Experimentation? MwahahaHa! You will be mine. Damn you.
don't ask me what who/it's about. That will just ruin the surprise won't it?! Heh.


Oh and whilst I am mentioning vidding, Sweet Charity, run by the generous lithium_doll starts again soon. Beginning of March I think? I hope to see many of you lot sign up or get involved in someway - it's for a fantastic cause! Can I just remind us all how much we raised last round > £879.90 / $1639.48 that amount is beyond amazing. I hope it has a similar success this time round!

vividcon sign-ups also start soon "registration for attending membership opens Sunday, February 18 at 1PM EST" I will not be going myself for various reasons (living in the UK and being socialphobic being the biggest two) but I am keen to see some of you awesome vidders on my flist sign up. I will probably be a supporting member and hopefully have something for clubvivid.

And the pimping goes on because I have very little else to say

get_creative the art challenge community needs many more people to come play. If you are arty inclined like me, then join up. It could be fun!

Comments

[marycrawford.livejournal.com]

I'm signed up for VVC for the first time ever yay! And I'm sorry I won't get to meet you and tell you in person how happy your vids make me.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

First time? Wow and yay and there was me thinking you were a veteran Vividcon goer. (I'm not sure why I thought that) Well, have a fantastic time! From the reports of previous years it sounds like you will. :D

[marycrawford.livejournal.com]

Hee. No, first time, and am excited and scared to death! (I live in the Netherlands, so it's not a sensible thing for me to do every year either, but this year I'm going!

[charmax.livejournal.com]

I bet you'll have a great time and I'm sure it won't be scary at all once you're there. I look forward to hearing how excellent it all was later in the year. :D

[shacky20.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm sorry to ask you this way, but I didn't know how else to contact you. I'm a huge fan of your video's, especially your Wes video, Suidicide Note, I see you use a Adobe video program. I made video's for my fandom, I run a CSI Website, I've made 24 video's so far, but I'm looking to step it up with a real video program. I was hoping you could tell me how well you like it. I'm in search for a real viding making program and don't know where to start even looking. I would so appreciate any input you could me. Thank you. Kelly

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Hi Kelly. Thanks for your kind words about Suicide Note.

I actually use a couple of Adobe programs for vidding (Premiere Pro and After-Effects as well as some stuff in Photoshop)

The Adobe website will probably offer free trials of most of its software. This should be helpful in determining whether their products are for you or not. I recommend you start with Premiere as it is the easiest to pick up. I do the bulk of my editing with it.

There are a number of other programs that you could choose from. Avid do a very powerful program but it is very expensive and uses a lot of RAM.

Windows movie maker is the only free program I know of. There are websites out there that provide you with extra effects and transitions. I don't know whether they will help.

At the cheaper end there are products by Pinnacle and Vegas. If you are on a mac there is Final Cut. All of these probably offer a trial. vidding group memories will have a lot more information about all sorts of programs.

I find that Premiere suits me just fine. It is quite easy to get to grip with the basics. It offers you some good out of the box effects as well as the ability to make your own. I have very rarely found myself unable to do something I wanted. That would be the one I would recommend.

I hope this has been helpful. Good luck.

[shacky20.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for your advice. I currently use Windows Media Maker, and I do enjoy it, but I think I've done about all I can with it. I just made a case CSI video with a ton of clips and a very action paced song, and it kept freezing up and locking up, wouldn't play, music would keep going when the video would freeze, I ended up having to make four different and piecing them together to pull the whole thing together. My big thing is I want to be about to layer clips on top of clips, which I cannot do with WMM, but you menioned a place with extra effects and transitions?? I will have to find that, maybe that's all I need. And thanks, I will definitley look into that community, always looking to improve my moving making..... Thank you

[charmax.livejournal.com]

I've been having a browse round for links and I came across these two options that allow you to expand windows movie maker. The first link allows you to add effects and transitions but you will have to script them somehow. The second link costs a small amount of money but it's a lot easier than the first option, you just install and go. It's very, very easy and you get much much more. Anyway, check them both out.

1.http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms867186.aspx
2.http://www.pixelan.com/mm/intro.htm

[charmax.livejournal.com]

I forgot to add - if windows movie maker is crashing and stalling and all that fun, then maybe it's a RAM upgrade you need? You might want to consider doing that before overloading your program and your system further with more installs/hacks.

[shacky20.livejournal.com]

Thank you, for the links and for the tip. I'll have to check that out. My husband is the computer internals expert. But the links will be very very helpful, after so many video's, I'm ready to kick it up to a new level for that special touch...... Thanks again for your suggestions, you have been ever so helpful....

[astartexx.livejournal.com]

Blame me all you want - you know I never feel responsible just gleeful, being with xandra_ptv has it peeks and immunised me against all kinds of guilt trips. And when you go Experimentation? It just makes me swoon… Aw, she is going for the hard stuff to make me dizzy with joy!