Vidding Linkspam April 22, 2019

[morgandawn]

 

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Seeking Vid Recs. 

This year I decided to make a vidshow about how much I hate capitalism. (I’m not kidding.) The working, and probably actual, title is “Be Gay, Do Crimes”.  It will be vid show on queers and marginalized folk doing what they gotta to survive under capitalism/the patriarchy/etc.

http://silly-cleo.tumblr.com/post/184109805310/seeking-vid-recs

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Proposal to download YouTube fanvids before Europe's Article 13 takes them down
"I was thinking about each of us downloading videos, and marking them as "Safe/Downloaded" in the comments, until we find another place to put them / way to share them."

https://meeedeee.tumblr.com/post/184099896331/hi-i-was-wondering-if-you-knew-about-the-european

 

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What's a good vidding song for Thor/Heimdall?  

http://mithborien.tumblr.com/post/183987036406/whats-a-good-vidding-song-for-thorheimdall

 

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PLEASE don’t steal work from vidders.
Whether it is reuploading a video, or taking clips from their edit and passing the editing off as your own, PLEASE DON’T.  

http://gemxstone.tumblr.com/post/183422022587/i-cant-believe-im-having-to-say-this-but

 

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Make things that are bad, silly, self indulgent.  
Making that silly middle school-esque fanvid was the most fun I had video editing in a while. I went to uni for media, I got graded on my editing. It can kill the fun.  Make things that are bad, silly, self indulgent. Just make things because you want to. Don’t let perfectionism kill ideas.

http://strivia.tumblr.com/post/183296958875/i-know-there-are-posts-with-a-similar-sentiment

 

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seekingferret: Wiscon Vids/Database Vids  

But it strikes me that vids like "Transmission" and eruthros's "Straightening Up the House", which got its own 7.5K creation essay, are vids that in an essential way may reflect an emerging Wiscon aesthetic that is meaningfully different from VVC-style vids. These are vids that are created by vidders fluent in the VVC house style, but they have the DNA of academic research projects in them as well. Vids are always attractive to me because of the information density they're capable of conveying, but "Transmission" and "Straightening Up the House" intentionally throw more information at you than you can absorb, while making you aware that they are doing this. The kiloword creation essay is an essential part of the art. You can simply sit back and watch "Transmission" and enjoy it, but you do so with the full awareness that you are not seeing everything the vidder has to say. I feel like that stands in confrontational opposition to the idea of Vid as Essay, which is so often essential to understanding VVC vids. 

https://seekingferret.dreamwidth.org/298378.html

 

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elfwreck: Vidding 101 Begins
I picked up Sony Vegas 14 at HumbleBundle a while back, and finally got around to installing it. 
I want to make a vid. I want to make a vid I know damn well nobody else will make, so I guess I gotta learn vidding.
However, the vid I want to make is complicated and involves several sources from different eras, which I know is a pain. So first, I gotta make an easy-for-beginners vid to get used to the software.

https://elf.dreamwidth.org/803716.html
 

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Anonymous Musings on Making Fanvids

All this Endgame excitement is really overflowing my brain with ideas for vids. But my only experience with making fanvids goes back more than a decade with a borrowed copy of DVD Shrink and Window Movie Maker on a computer that wasn't really equipped to handle either, and I always wanted something that would let me layer video in more ways that WMM would allow.  

https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/364661.html?thread=2127359093#cmt2127359093  

 

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argh! (Indexing vids)

On the plus side, this little exercise in frustration made me finally fully update my index of Vids by Song (I have 3 indexes: by Song, by Vidder, & by Fandom; the other 2 are complete, but I started the Song database later on, so I never got it fully done). Next time I get convinced I have a vid set to a certain song, I want to be able to go directly to the song itself & see! Not combing through every single vid. 

https://istia.dreamwidth.org/499505.html  

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Resources

Vid songs database? 
Is there somewhere an index or rec list or database or website or something where you can search for vids by song choice rather than (in addition to) fandom or ship or vidder? 

https://meeedeee.tumblr.com/post/184113257521/vid-songs-database    

 

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How to make the perfect fanvid rec list - using vids from multiple streaming platforms (YouTube, Vimeo, Internet Archive, Daily Motion etc).  

https://morgandawn.dreamwidth.org/1646310.html

 

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Looking For Free or nearly free software for clipping large/ 1080p mkv files on mac

"Any recommendations for for newer software that might deal with files better? (I'm using Lightworks for the actual vidding)"

https://vidding.dreamwidth.org/389542.html
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Challenges/Contests

Spring Equinox 2019: Sources from the 1990s is live!

All 37 vids made for Spring Equinox are now live on the AO3 collection!
https://equinox-exchange.dreamwidth.org/25769.html      ______________________________________________________________ 

cupidsbow Equinox Vid Recs - Sources from the 1990s

https://cupidsbow.dreamwidth.org/451765.html

 

 

 

Comments

[stultiloquentia]

I really enjoy your posts, but the hard-coded text colours are nearly impossible to see on my light-on-dark reading page. Would it be difficult to tweak your crossposting script?

[morgandawn]

cross-posting? not certain what you mean? I am posting this to DW. where are you reading it?

[stultiloquentia]

Ah, sorry, I thought at one point you were noodling around with automated Tumblr crossposting. I'm reading on DW.

[morgandawn]

I post to DW...and then it goes to Tumblr. Can you send me a screenshot of what you are seeing? When I use the dark reader it seems to correctly autoformat (light text against dark).

[stultiloquentia]

Your font and colours are fine in here, on the post itself, because I'm using the dark-on-light setting. They're still overriding DW's defaults, though. Here's a cap of my reading page (f.lux turned off and brightness cranked up).



Thanks for poking at it! I appreciate it! And if you can't fix it; no big deal. I can just open your posts in their own tab.

[morgandawn]

That is so weird. I tried setting the font to "default" (which should then pick up the viewer's default) but there seems to be nothing to address whatever you are seeing here. I am not familiar with dark-on-light setting.