My First Vid (Master List Of First Vids)

[morgandawn]

A follow-up to this post and idea here:

Please feel free to drop a link to the first vid you made. Any fandom, any date is welcome. Even if your first vid has been online for while you can participate. Ditto if your first vid was made only days ago - or last year. Or last decade. Or whenever. All first vids in all fandoms are welcome. The idea is to show case our first efforts, remind of us where we started and encourage others who have just started vidding.

My first vid was made in 1995. It is streamed here here on iMeem .

Title: Ordinary World
Fandom: The Professionals
Artist: Duran, Duran

I made this vid using two VCRs and second or third generation copies of the TV show on videotape. Looking back it has all the hallmarks of a 'great' first time vid: cuts off (not on) the beat, long clips (although to be fair we all had limits on how fast we could cut using VCRs - but trust me, these are looong clips), talking heads etc.

The idea came to me while I was living apart from

xlorp and working on a huge project that took me to Los Angeles for a year and a half. I would drive home to my rented room in the evening and listen to this song and think of him and how much I missed him. The line 'Where is my friend when I need him most?" captured for me the dynamics of my (then) favorite pairing of Bodie and Doyle. The 'ordinary world' the singer keeps singing about is (surprise surprise) all the girlfriends they love and lost. I guess that means they were fated to be together, eh?

 

Edited in 2008: Another 'first vid' thread has been started here http://bop-radar.livejournal.com/168665.html

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[giandujakiss.livejournal.com]

My first vid was mde in May 2006. Title: Undone (The Sweater Song). Fandom: Highlander. Arist: Weezer. Download here: http://giandujakiss.com/#hl or watch in streaming version here: http://giandujakiss.imeem.com/video/r3_sz_0R/hl_undonesweatersong/

The idea came to me because I heard the song for the first time shortly after gorging on HL D/M fics, many of which spent a great deal of time discussing Methos's penchant for oversized sweaters.

[sdwolfpup.livejournal.com]

My first vid was a Buffy: the Vampire Slayer vid to Good Charlotte's, "Moving On." I made it in May of 2003.

It's downloadable from my website, 7 MB and in WMV format, Right-click and save target as (http://www.sdwolfpup.com/vids/MO.zip).

The remastered version of this vid is up on my website, but this version is the actual, honest-to-goodness, very first version I ever posted in all of its, ah, glory. I used a trial version of Adobe Premiere 6.0 that I had downloaded because I couldn't afford the actual software.

[kitkatbyte.livejournal.com]

I remember seeing and being very impressed that it was your first! I HEART this vid!

[martoufmarty.livejournal.com]

Title: Excess
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Artist: Tricky

Download from SendSpace (http://www.sendspace.com/file/dgn4g9)

It's an episodic for the Stargate SG-1 episode 5x21 'Meridian', made back on June 16th, 2002.

I was bored one night and I had this episode on my computer (I had to start downloading Stargate SG-1 because we stopped getting the Showtime, and then we stopped getting Scifi). I fiddled around with Windows Movie Maker for a while and came up with that after picking a random song.

This isn't actually the original. A few months after I made it I took the file, edited one little bit different and put it back to the same music. There really isn't much difference.

With vidding I started off with episodic vids, and I don't have any of them online anymore because they are quite embarrassing.

My first vid: Tell Me

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Title: Tell Me
Fandom: BtVS
Artist: Billie Meyers

Available on iMeem (http://laurasha.imeem.com) or at my website (http://www.laurasha.com).

I have written a ton about this vid already, but its genesis was in fanfic: I wanted to write about the Buffy/Faith relationship from Faith's POV, but I couldn't get her voice down at all. Then I heard this song. I had seen vids before and thought "I could do that," but it was this song, and the two-parter body swap episodes in S4, that made me *have* to do that.

Ironic for a vid that started off as a way to address a particular POV, POV problems plague this vid. It's meant to be all Faith, but in fact it switches a few times to Buffy, quite accidentally. Also, I meant the dissolves to be flashbacks, but they aren't long enough or sufficiently well indicated to really perform that function. Still, it's got a good beat and you can dance to it.

Re: My first vid: Tell Me

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

See I watch this vid and it makes me happy - eerie opening music (perfect song choice BTW), Buffy and Faith hitting each other on the beat of the song, femme slash theme.... and if the POV is muddled, the song and the concept you selected works with the muddle (body switching).

[chasarumba.livejournal.com]

My first vid is from June 2003...a tribute to Darla and Connor (from Angel) set cheesily to a Faith Hill song. What can I say except that it seemed like a good idea at the time. Never remastered or "fixed" in any way since the original release.

Downloadable (no streaming version available) at:
http://dearone.net/media.php

[suki-blue.livejournal.com]

Mt first Vid was made about a week ago


Stargate: Atlantis

Song: Star Trekkin' by The Firm

http://www.sukibluefiction.com/Suki%20Blue%20Fiction/WebPages/Vidhome.htm

I'd been thinking about trying vidding for a while. Then I discovered I already had the software on my hardrive so I clicked in it to have a quick look, fiddled for a bit, added a random song, and then half an hour later I was on my way ~g~

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

My first completely solo vid was There's No Way Out of Here, which is available on high-quality DL at my site (http://www.gwynethr.net) in a digitally remastered version, and I will try to put it up later tonight after work for streaming at my Imeem page (http://www.gwyneth.imeem.com). It's huge, so it takes a while to upload.

Unfortunately, it was a blessing and a curse. Blessing in that so many people still love it to this day and it's been one of those vids that seems to inspire people; curse in that I know I will never make anything that resonates with people that way again and I think everyone has pretty much just been disappointed by everything I've made since then!

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

I still sniffle to this vid.

[luminosity]

My first vid was in January 2001 (OMG I'm a geezer vidder in cyber-terms). It was a Highlander vid to Fuel's "The Last Time." I remastered it a few months ago, hoping that, by doing so, it would kickstart me into vidding another idea I have for HL (it didn't). My remaster is almost frame-by-frame the same as the original, with the exception of the title. I dropped the title card at the beginning and put an MTV type title at the end when I remastered.

I surprised myself by vidding something from Methos's POV, thinking that I'd make a Duncan vid. It's not a bad vid, even looking at it now. I would change several things in it now, of course--timing issues, maybe be a little more consistent with cutting. LOL I didn't know what I was doing, and I did a lot of things that I can't even remember how to do now. I was and remain obsessed with vidding.

It's at imeem and available for download on Eyecandy.

OH!

[luminosity]

LOL I did an ungodly amount of slow-mo. I was enthralled with the ability to speed up and slow down clips. I'm such a dweeb.

[jarrow.livejournal.com]

I just made my first vid this past October. I'm going to remaster it, but this is the original (and current, to date) version. My friend nobunnies and I threw some BSG clips together to a hip-hop song just for laughs one afternoon, but it was so infectious that I went ahead and made a whole vid from it for kicks. It ended up being a really fun, not-serious way for me to see if vidding was something I seriously wanted to learn. And it was :-)

Song: "Goodies" by Ciara
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica, Starbuck/Boomer
Download: at my website (http://jarrow272.inverteddungeon.com), [right-click and save here] (http://jarrow272.inverteddungeon.com/videos/goodies.wmv) (wmv, 23 MB)

Now that I've moved on from Windows Movie Maker, I grimace at the "well, the only way to slow it down was half-speed" moments and how I spent an entire verse doing an Ode to Guns because I simply couldn't find enough source to fill the song (which will be cut down to 3 minutes in the remaster, thankyouverymuch). But such is the shame of first vids. Good times.

This is fun idea!

[way2busymom.livejournal.com]

My first vid was made for last years VVC premiere show...so let's see...shown August 2006? *does not mentally calculate dates well*

Title: Black Mask
Fandom: Batman Begins
Song by: (International) Noise Conspiracy.

It can be found here (http://belindavids.kabeka.com/BMvid.zip) (right click, save as) or at Imeem. (http://way2busymom.imeem.com/video/Xsk5ibm5/bb_blackmask/)

This vid nearly killed me. First draft was done in March and I set it aside to work on other vids. When I went back to make changes that my betas had suggested, the avi was gone. Lather rinse repeat. I think I ended up redoing the vid three times before I got an avi to export for the vidshow. A sane person would have walked away...*grins*

[kitkatbyte.livejournal.com]

Ohhh I remember this! The bat transitions! I've always thought that was neat.

[melina123.livejournal.com]

My first vid was made in 1998, shown in 1999 -- yes, kids, it's "I'm Too Sexy," and my only excuse is that there were not 3000 versions of it back then. Highlander.

Available in higher-quality divx at Triptychvids (http://www.triptychvids.com/eFiction/index.php). (Look under "Vidders" and my name, or find it by title.) I'll also try to get it uploaded to imeem tonight, in which case it will be here (http://melina123.imeem.com/).

(Yes, we really did cut clips that long back then. I haven't remastered it because... well, I just haven't.)

[killabeez.livejournal.com]

And I still like it, so there. *g*

[halcyon-shift.livejournal.com]

*stares*

Title: Mercy (http://www.farscapefantasy.com/video_mercy.html)
Song: "Devil Song" by Beth Orton
Fandom: Farscape

I had three episodes to work with and many years of pent up TEH ANGST. It was never going to end well. EVER.

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

Here is the correct link

http://www.farscapefantasy.com/videos/index.php?set=video&id=189

always happy to....help....you

[marycrawford.livejournal.com]

My first vid was Live Till I Die, a Hercules: the Legendary Journeys vid about the many lives of Iolaus, to a song by Frank Sinatra.

It's available for download on my site, in two sizes (http://www.squidge.org/~marycrawford/vids/index.html) and as a streaming version on imeem (http://marycrawford.imeem.com/video/07-sFyN6/htlj_livetillidie/).

I'm still enormously fond of this vid, not least because I was lucky enough to get input from Thing 1 and 2 of flummery on it, and profited enormously thereby.

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

I'm still very fond of that vid too!

Just sayin'.

[aaania80.livejournal.com]

My first video is rather recent - November 2006. It's BBC Robin Hood, ep. 1-5. I just wanted to see if I am able to do it at all! I had so much fun... I can see many faults but it's way too early to try to remaster it. I think I haven't learned enough since for it to be worth it.
I can be downloaded from http://www.sweeney3296.info/richard-armitage/armitage-music-videos-RH.html - it's the 5th from the top - Nor me, Nor I by Delta Goodrem. The only one made with Windows Movie Maker...

[effulgent-girl.livejournal.com]

My first vid was a Spuffy vid to Evanescence's (what else back then?) Imaginary. The editing is way off, my clips run too long and my source isn't the greatest. But it is my baby and therefore it holds a special place in my heart. I made it back before I even had a video site in 2002. It can be found here at SaveFile - http://www.savefile.com/files/95747

[kitkatbyte.livejournal.com]

Spuffy Evanescence... boy does this take me back! It was all the rage back then! Hee.

[shati.livejournal.com]

My first vid was a Firefly/Serenity vid (about River) to Alabama 3's "Woke Up This Morning," which I made about a year ago. Because there were guns! and waking up! and the Blues walking into town!

It's still up on my website (http://www.silveraspen.net/juniper/), because I haven't actually improved enough since to get too embarrassed about it. And 'cause I still like the shots of people talking in River's hallucinatory OiS sequence paired with the unintelligibly distorted vocals toward the end.

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

Heeee. this vid rocked. Yes there were blue hands on the blues but you captured the feeling of desperate confusion/anger that makes you want to pull out a GUN! I kept thinking River was feeling/hearing/seeing everyone's pain and desperation in her head at the end of the vid.

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

My first vid was in October 2005 for Startrek - The Original Series, a Kirk-kissing vid to "Put your head on my shoulder" by Paul Anka.

It can be seen at imeem (http://itsnotme.imeem.com/video/La6IzVn0/st_putyourhead/) :)

I thought it was a good idea to start with something relatively simple. I had tried to withstand the pull towards vidding for several months in 2005, but then I succumbed ;)

[kitkatbyte.livejournal.com]

That Kirk.. he's such a man-slut!

[klia.livejournal.com]

How weird -- I just had TS's and my master tape in my hands, and was thinking I should try to digitize it before it disintegrates. But... argh, plain VHS, and no flying erase heads, so I have to wonder if all the noise and stuff at the edit points would make it impossible.

Our first vid was in 1987; a B7 vid to the Stones' Dancing With Mr. D.

The thing is, even if I'm able to digitize those oldies, I seriously doubt I'd ever put them online. Vids were so different then, I can't imagine today's viewers *ever* wanting to watch them.

Saving old vids

[taverymate.livejournal.com]

Please, please digitize the tape before it disintegrates! Even an imperfect copy is better than none. Once lost, it's not recoverable and vidding history deserves to be preserved for a wide variety of reasons. (All of which I'm sure are well-known to you. *g*)

There are viewers today who would want to watch the vids: *waving my hand high* - and I know that I'm not alone. Every time I discuss songvids and their history - no matter what the fandom - there are people who express interest in seeing the older vids. Sometimes folks have no idea that earlier vids existed, or they have only heard of them spoken in mythic terms by longterm fen and had presumed them lost. There is an interest in knowing fannish roots (which includes vids as well as fiction and other fanworks) that goes beyond historians.

And while vidding styles have changed, the idea that whatever vidding styles dominate today should determine the worth of older vids is something that I find anathema. Styles, trends, and fads in any art form come and go; sometime they resurface, in part or whole, sometimes they don't. But one doesn't destroy or abandon early works because they aren't currently en vogue.

How is today's audience (which includes vidders, not just viewers!) to know how they would respond to older vids if they don't have access to view those older vids?! A vid watcher who has only seen vids made on computers in the last three years - and who enjoys them - may still find that they enjoy and value older vids, including those made on VCRs, assuming they have the chance to view them.

Sure, there are source queens who won't give the time of day to a vid that doesn't use DVD source and those who disdain vids that dare to include clips that lasts more than 3 frames. At the same time, there are viewers - including new viewers - who may prefer a different aethestic or who may privilege a vid's content over it's presentation.

And I know that I'm, at least in part, preaching to the choir here, so I'll stop. But I just hate the idea that vids are being lost when they could be saved.

[kimberlyfdr.livejournal.com]

My first vid was the SH vid Remember When (Alan Jackson) http://www.dream-somehow.com/nightside/RememberWhen1.WMV

I didn't have access to the eps on electronic media and I wanted to do an older SH vid anyway, so I went with the slideshow idea. I was sure that I'd be the only person who liked it because a) it was a slideshow, b) it was a country song, and c) it was older SH. Three things that I thought worked against it....but apparently those are the three things that worked in its favor;)

[thedothatgirl.livejournal.com]

My first vid 'Viva Las Vegas' Episodic AtS "The House Always Wins" was made in August '04. WMM preferred weapon of choice.

I had a ton of ideas back then (I had spent the previous year watching just about any slayerverse vids I could get my hands on) and this was the MOST obvious, and as an episodic the easiest to make.

I plucked up courage and asked sdwolfpup to send me feedback and she kindly obliged which was invaluable and didn't crush my noobie vidding enthusiasm. The vid has been on my site ever since as a reminder of where I started.

http://www.buffyandangelart.co.uk/angel%20music%20videos.htm

[crazywritinfool.livejournal.com]

My first vid was completed 4/30/04, according to way2busymom, who apparently documents my life better than I do.

Title: Godspeed (ksquared.kabeka.com/GodspeedZip.zip)
Fandom: Angel
Artist: Dixie Chicks

This song made me think of Angel and Connor, in a sort of schmoopy way, but not entirely schmoopy. I couldn't vid at the time--I didn't know how yet--so first I wrote a fic, Godspeed, Little Man (http://knightsfanfic.kabeka.com/Angelfic/Godspeed.htm), which won an award. Then a bit later I was introduced to the hows of vidding by overworked and sockkpuppett. So I decided to tackle the vid I'd wanted to make in the first place. The S2 and S3 footage is ripped from DVD, but all the S4 clips were downloaded because S4 hadn't come out on DVD yet. So I learned some things. The AR is off, and there are some things I'd like to fix, but I just haven't been able to muster myself to remaster it, because of the sentimental attachment to my Very First Vid.

And if that was 2004, I guess I need to update my icon...

[bradcpu.livejournal.com]

Very eye-opening thread, this.

My first was a Firefly/Serenity River vid about a year ago. Made in WMM. To "Bring Me To Life." (http://bradcpu.com/videos.html) Yeah. Although as God is my witness, I had never even seen a vid online before, and the first time I ever heard the song was a month or two before that, when the Evanescence video came on while I was standing in line at Best Buy. Something about the coloring of the vid and the pace of the song just reminded me of the fandom and character. Also, the lyrics also seemed to imply the idea of living a sort of neverending nightmare and not being able to tell what's real and what's not.

I started editing the vid moments after opening WMM for the very first time, so... yeah. Stray frames and talky face and so on. Plus I wanted to make a statement at the end but I didn't know how to properly balance that with the visuals, so I just murder the pacing of the last 30 seconds.

[sabaceanbabe.livejournal.com]

My very first vid:

Song: Simple Man
Artist: Shinedown
Fandom: BSG
Link: download the ~39mb wmv file here (http://files.filefront.com/SimpleMan6wmv/;6707422;;/fileinfo.html)

I've been vidding for about a year now, and I'd like to think that I've gotten better at it. Although I did realize earlier today that there is still a little bit of talky face in my newest post. *sigh*

Baby's first vid...

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

Summer 2004. Made on iMovie. I'm still fairly fond of it, even; there are a couple of things I would do better now, but on the whole, I think it's not too bad.


Movie: Stiff Upper Lips
Music: Madness, It Must Be Love
Format: Quicktime.
Size: 29M zipped.
Sexual content, semi-explicit. (http://scriptorium.infotrope.net/vids/itmustbeloveweb.mov.zip)

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

My first vid was made ... uh, sometime in late 2006. I was a complete and utter n00b, but I had one advantage: my flatmate is a vidder who studied editing in film school. So she gave me a lot of tips, like avoiding long speaking scenes and using a shortish song "because by the time you've finished making it, you'll never want to hear that song again".

With all that in mind, I chose the world record holder for "shortest song ever" -- Yoko Ono by German group Die Aerzte, clocking in at 30 seconds. It's in German, which is obviously not an advantage if you're an English-speaking vidder, but the lyrics are about an annoying girlfriend who has terrible taste in music and just won't leave.

This was made into a character-hatin' Doctor Who vid. Since I'm not down with the character hate, I feel a bit cheap for having done so, but it fit the song and got a few giggles. Editing is uneven at best -- I've done four vids now and I'm still learning.

One day, I'm hoping this can fade away into obscurity -- sorry, further obscurity. But I'm keeping it around to see the learning curve in action.

On imeem (http://squiddishly.imeem.com/video/JgijkkQU/dw_yoko_ono/).