The Here And Now

We invite all clipmakers to take part in our new video-clip competition on CreaSpace.ru. Any self-made video clip based on films, games, sports etc., can be submitted to the contest (only anime are restricted). No restrictions on music styles and genres of video. No registration needed. Submit deadline is 10 October 2019. Prize fund: ~500$. We accept exclusive videos only, the ones which were not shown online before the contest. If a link to Youtube and Vimeo is provided (it must be "unlisted" video before premiere), the broadcast of the contest video will be conducted directly from your channel.

Detailed rules: http://creaspace.ru/forum/topic.php?topic_id=3933

Winners of some previous contests:

CreaCon 2008: Toster - Doom In Da Mist
CreaCon 2009: Trampler - Dead As History
CreaCon 2010: Safira - New Divide
CreaCon 2011: Samuel - Burning Shadow
CreaCon 2012: Norlack - Doomsday: Lost Home
CreaCon 2013: -Faith- - Falling Earth
CreaCon 2014: Benjamin - Secrets
CreaCon 2015: Benjamin - Beyond Us
CreaCon 2016: UFец - Desert Storm
CreaCon 2017: UFец - Tropic Heat
CreaCon 2018: Samuel - Clones
CreaCon 2019: Илья Чижов - Natural Shot

• Vidding News on Dreamwidth (last updated in April) - they cross-post to Tumblr and to Twitter
  
• My Vidding Linkspam tag (last updated in April, May update coming soon)
• ye Old Vidding Livejournal and Dreamwidth communities still see get an occasional post 
• There is a multi-fandom vidrec community on Dreamwidth
• A Fandom Fanvids community on DW
• A community to use bingo cards to inspire fanvids on DW
• Occasional fun vid threads on Fail Fandom Anon (ex: "Explain a canon based only on a fanvid/AMV" or "Favorite Game of Throne Fanvids")

• Viddertips on Tumblr was active up until Jan 2019 but shut down its asks/inbox
• Fanvidbasics on Tumblr was last updated in 2017

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Best editing codec working in Lightworks & Windows?

rachelindeed posting in vidding

Hi everyone! I'm fairly new to vidding and have been trundling along happily so far just learning to use Lightworks and getting the editing basics down. But now I'm starting to edge toward things like paying attention to picture quality and converting files into more editable formats, etc. I will read up on some of the previous posts people have shared (I see there was a recent discussion about how to deal with mkvs, which I've also recently been struggling with!), but my question for today is:

For vidders who work in Windows and use Lightworks to edit, what codec works best for your editing? And what software do you use to convert your various kinds of source files into that desired codec?

Thank you so much for any advice, it's much appreciated!

minnehaha

Social Media Manifesto

Whereas: Fandom is at its best when it provides communities a place to gather;

Whereas: Fans have perfected the art of the personal essay;

Whereas: Livejournal was an exceptional gathering place for Fandom;

Whereas: Russia, a hostile foreign power, controls Livejournal;

Whereas: Hostile entities have disproportionate representation on Facebook and Twitter, with serious impacts on their pleasantness and utility; moreover, bots and trolls infest these platforms;

Whereas: The curated feed allows these companies to determine what we see and in what order;

Whereas: Dreamwidth is the logical successor to Livejournal, and uses the same code;

Whereas: Dreamwidth does not have a surveillance-based corporate profit-driven business model;

THEREFORE, we, the undersigned call upon Fandom to recreate their online community and to do it on Dreamwidth.

Signed,

Lots of people, including you?

equinox_exchange

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

 

All 37 vids made for Spring Equinox are now live on the AO3 collection!

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Trying to vid for the first time in years, and I've gone back to MPEG Streamclip for clipping purposes, but as well as no longer being as stable as it used to be, it doesn't seem to be able to deal with large .mkv files.

I have no problem clipping the .mkv that are around 1 gb 720p but can't deal with .mkv files that are around 4gb 1080p. (I'm not technically savvy enough to know whether it's the size or the encoding it's having an issue with).

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

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hopelesse posting in vidding

Have you been turning a vid idea over and over in your head, but you can't find the perfect song that'll drive your idea home? Apparently this is a problem! And I'm here to help.

My music library is eclectic and vast. Are you looking for a driving beat with harsh, inhuman sounds? A liquid, summer-warm song under 3 minutes long? Something that makes you feel dizzy and hungry with a jazzy overtone? Give me an idea of what you're looking for -- an emotion, a sound, a vibe, a song that's almost what you want but isn't quite doing it for you, whatever you've got -- and I'll spitball song ideas with you! 

For an idea of the kinds of things I might recommend, check out my listening now playlist on spotify.

Talking music is one of my very favorite things. Lets do it together.

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Three years ago, we warned of a string of dangerous new policy proposals on the horizon. Under these proposals, platforms would be forced to implement copyright bots that sniffed all of the media that users uploaded to them, deleting your uploads with no human review.

It’s happening.

The European Parliament is weeks away from a vote on Article 13, which would force most platforms, services, and communities that host user uploads to install filters to block uploads that seem to match materials in a database of copyrighted works. If the filter detected enough similarity between your video and something from the list of copyrighted works, your video would be banned. Hollywood lobbyists have proposed similar measures here in the U.S.

viddingnews

Since there was a bunch of interest, I will also be posting a special monthly newsletter that contains links to individual vids that have been posted that month.

This will be posted on the 1st of every month, and if you would like to be included, please use the link below to submit:

How to submit a vid

But my understanding has always been that a main reason for not monetizing fandom wasn't that the money was dirty, but that keeping fandom noncommercial was the main way to keep the owners of the intellectual property off our backs. If I sell my Narnia novel Carpetbaggers, even by putting up a Patreon link, I'm entering into competition with the Lewis estate, and giving them justification for shutting me down.

To my mind, the fear of the copyright-holders has always been the primary reason to keep fannish creativity quiet and non-commercial. Even if, as the OTW legal team asserts, transformative fandom is protected as fair use, it's also functionally protected because it's not considered a threat by the corporations. Once money enters the equation, they are much less likely to look the other way.

(I've always wondered about fan art in that way, particularly the amazing one-off works that get sold at cons, but any single Kirk/Spock painting doesn't constitute a threat to the franchise's intellectual property the way that that Axanor movie would have.)

I have a suspicion that the community has made a virtue of necessity, and took the non-commercial requirement and converted it into the gift economy. So that element is considered by many old-school fans to be a special part of the fannish world: we give gifts to one another, and no money changes hands in exchange for our creativity. It's nicer to say, "we give gifts" than "we're afraid of Paramount", after all.

settiai

I've seen fandom go from people having to put disclaimers ("not mine! don't sue!") to people having no idea where something like that comes from. I've seen FF.net go from being the pinnacle to the Pit of Voles. I've seen the rise of the AO3.

I've seen fanvids go from being a very niche part of fandom that took a huge amount of investment (and multiple VCRs) to becoming something anyone can easily try to do if they want. I mean, I got into the vidding part of fandom when online vid downloads were just starting to become a possibility to... well, the age of YouTube.

Fandom changed. And, well, it hasn't at the same time. It's very cyclical, and the longer I'm involved with it? The more I see that.

There have always been people who've said "don't write this!" or "you can't draw that!" There have always been people who've used things like "think of the children!" or "don't you have morals?" as a way to pretend they have the high ground. Yes, the current version of fandom is better on some things. (I very much remember when it had to be rated PG-13 or R if it had a m/m relationship, even if it was nothing but G-rated fluff. Or when so many fics featuring f/f or m/m or even graphic f/m was only posted under lock.) But it's backslid on others.

Fandom is fandom. It's always changing, and it will never change. That's part of why it means so much to me.

Second up: The Third Wheel  published in the print fanzine Interphase.

Two reviews from Fanlore:

• an excellent story, 'The Third Wheel' written from McCoy's point of view, which captures well the deep-down feeling between McCoy and Spock that we all expected was hidden there somewhere (1976)
  
  
• It also follows Connie's pattern of both De Profundis and Mojave Crossing -- starting out good, and then somehow, magically, late in the story, something inside the story fuses and melts and transforms into something incredible and breathtaking and very different. And in the last conversation between Spock and McCoy it's no longer idfic but it's a pitch-perfect moment of connection, really sincere, meaningful, and just plain lovely. Like a plot twist, except it's not the plotline that gets twisted. An emotion growth-twist? A character-relationship-arc twist? I don't know, but the ending of The Third Wheel is the most heartwarming new thing I've read in some time (2014)
  

If I have around 1 TB(ytes) worth of data to upload, the math looks like this

1. Upload from MD's home = approximately 20 days (rounded up)
2. Upload from friend's location = 2-2 hrs

Now here's where it gets tricky. Some online backup servers cap the data flowing into their servers. Ex Sync.com caps it at
5 MB(ytes) or 40 M(bits)

In which case my math looks like this

1. Upload from MD's home = approximately 20 days (rounded up)
2. Upload from friend's location = 55-60 hrs (2+ days)

Did I get this correct?

I used this calculator
https://www.broadbandsolutions.com.au/business-centre/viewpoint/understanding-connection-speeds-megabytes-megabits