Vidding woes!
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ash48I love vidding - I do! But it's testing my patience at the moment!
I have just completed the first draft of my new video. This is a vid that I really wanted to be "good" - I wanted to work on all the bits that make up a good vid - the feel, the story (well, action in this case), the colour, transitions etc.) I made a copy and sent it to my beta,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sharvie who had some wonderfully positive initial comments before we launched into the beta process. This is my favourite part of vidding. I love tweaking and having someone to bounce ideas off. Also to help me sharpen my vidding skills.
All was going well until major crash! My program iMovie just couldn't handle it anymore and basically told me to get stuffed! This was after I finished my first bit of beta'ing. All gone!
Choice now is do I upload what I had? (with the knowledge that it could be so much better), or do I remake it - knowing it will take ages, but will hopefully be a better video. *Eeek* too hard basket.
I also have a shiny new vidding program - Final Cut Express - which is doing my head in at the moment. It looks awesome but, man, learning curve much!
I have just completed the first draft of my new video. This is a vid that I really wanted to be "good" - I wanted to work on all the bits that make up a good vid - the feel, the story (well, action in this case), the colour, transitions etc.) I made a copy and sent it to my beta,
sharvie who had some wonderfully positive initial comments before we launched into the beta process. This is my favourite part of vidding. I love tweaking and having someone to bounce ideas off. Also to help me sharpen my vidding skills.All was going well until major crash! My program iMovie just couldn't handle it anymore and basically told me to get stuffed! This was after I finished my first bit of beta'ing. All gone!
Choice now is do I upload what I had? (with the knowledge that it could be so much better), or do I remake it - knowing it will take ages, but will hopefully be a better video. *Eeek* too hard basket.
I also have a shiny new vidding program - Final Cut Express - which is doing my head in at the moment. It looks awesome but, man, learning curve much!
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Date: 2007-09-08 01:02 am (UTC)Yeah it's a real bummer. I'm going to see what I can do. Hubby seems to think it's a corrupt file in the program - so major clean up required. If we can do that successfully I think I will remake. Luckily I do have a copy and maybe able to use some clips from that. Fun times ahead.
Re FCE. It's big! I am completely overwhelmed by it, but I think it will be worth the switch when I can get a handle on it. The problem is I know iMovie really well and FCE is so different - I keep wanting to move around FCE the same way I do iMovie. Whether it's worth the switch is a good question. I'm still not sure for myself yet. I love the simplicity of iMovie and with the extra plug ins available it can do some pretty good stuff. It may depend where you want to go with vidding. I have dreams of producing wonderfully "techie" vids one day - so I will probably persist with it.
Cheers