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

Comments

Re: Saving old vids

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

in using my DVD recorder the most problems were not the dropouts - it was sections of vids that came from movies that had clearly been copyguard protected. Even after the copyguard had been removed by the vidder. Many of the Media Cannibals multi-media vids could not be transferred via DVD recorder.

My Canopus had other issues (video and audio drop-outs).

Re: Saving old vids

[killabeez.livejournal.com]

I have a Sima that strips out the copy protect.

Re: Saving old vids

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

me too - the Sima could not handle the guard. I think the DVD Recorders are much more sensitive than the VCRs - the Sima works fine on tape to tape but failed on the VHS to DVD-R.

Re: Saving old vids

[killabeez.livejournal.com]

Ah, yeah, you're right! Maybe that is why I ended up trying the analog DV camera method instead. I can't remember what I did yesterday, never mind two years ago. I should shut up now. *g*

Re: Saving old vids

[klia.livejournal.com]

The Canopus does, too; it's not quite a hack, but there's a trick to it.

I think MD's Canopus was a lemon unit, frankly. We've used them for years, and they've always worked just fine for us.

Re: Saving old vids

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

I agree - the audio on my never worked. But it removed copyguard beautifully.

Re: Saving old vids

[klia.livejournal.com]

None of our old vids have any copyguarded footage, thank heaven; it was all VHS SP recorded off air (before the era of bugs -- ha). I wrangled them onto DVD last night (the wee hours of today, actually), and the problem I ran into was the vids that started with music over black, which didn't record, alas. So, I don't know what I'll do about that problem. But I have to try ripping and see what happens.

*hides*

*avoids*