Festivids

[elipie]

Dec 2, 2011 15:42:28 GMT -5 eunice said:

Instead of actually working on my festivid, I made a virtual festivid SNOWGLOBE. ;D Procrastination is the mother of invention. Or, more like, this is what happens when you leave me alone in a room with After Effects tutorials.

fan-eunice.dreamwidth.org/283447.html

Your snowglobe is beautiful/genius.

[legoline]

My festivid needs some final tweakage and somehow I can't be bothered too *sigh* I keep telling myself that I can try and apply astarte's tutorial on avisynth for the post-processing and that's kind of exciting, but still. Once it's finished it's finished and what if my recipient hates it?

[rokikurama]

eunice
So. Cute. This is why I'm happy people want to play with after effects, hee hee.

legoline
Aww--you've got a little while. Even though they put up the submission boxes and are all scary (I have half a timeline? Almost?) you can take some time to kind of re-charge your vidding batteries. And I have a feeling that Festivids is the kind of thing where recipients are super happy with their vids just because they exist, you know? That's certainly what I was thinking with mine

[obsessive24]

Guyz, I'm such a festivids noob, I need help navigating the site? ;D I'm wandering around the site thinking about maybe making a treat if anything is suitabe, but I don't understand how it works. Where can I find a list of people who have asked for what fandom/song etc? Or is it a matter of hunting down Dear Festividder letters on people's individual journals? There must be a better way to do this.

[lillythekid]

obsessive24 - The Dear Festividder letters are linked here on lj and here on dw.
Hope this helps

[obsessive24]

Ah, awesome! Thank you very much!

[legoline]

I kind of want to make a treat, but I also want to make another vid for someone as a Christmas gift, and now I'm torn. I could attempt both, I suppose, though that would be madness ;D

[obsessive24]

Yesterday I got home, sat down, and made a 3-minute treat! In 4 hours! ;D It needs tweaking here and there, but is mostly done. That's the great thing about vidding movies. I feel really productive now.

[legoline]

That's really awesome! ;D Go you!

[legoline]

So, just wondering--is anyone else looking at the festivid letters for treats going, "I want to make that one! And that one! AND THAT ONE! And...!"

Besides the fact that I love making gifts and it's such a lovely idea it also gives you such a great excuse to vid all these tiny little fandoms--and people might even watch the vids, because it's festivids, so it's a thing. At this point, I have eight tabs open with possible treats. How do I decide?

[obsessive24]

LOL, yes. I have made one and thinking of making maybe one or two more. It's kind of addicting.

Well personally I go with whatever source that's easiest to vid. Just don't want to get myself into a position of tearing my hair out over something that's supposed to be a breeze. So I've ruled out anything that's not a movie, and pretty much the only movies in contension are the ones that are really visually dynamic. The other thing is that I've ruled out requests which are kinda specific, since I don't want into get into the headspace of doubting whether it met the requester's expectations or not.

Don't know if that will help narrow down your 8 tabs. ;D

[franzeska]

Dec 15, 2011 2:24:04 GMT -5 legoline said:

I have eight tabs open with possible treats. How do I decide?

MAKE THEM AAAAALLLL!

(What? You totally have time. )

[rokikurama]

Or just make ours

(I only say this because my letter doesn't really exist, so you know I'm kidding)

[dragonchic]

After like ten different attempts I think I've finally got an audio edit for my Festivids treat that will work for my intended narrative. Almost feels like sacrilege because I took a song with an interesting unconventional structure and forced it into a more conventional flow, but oh well.

[obsessive24]

D'aww, audio sacrilege! I feel a spanking coming on!

Knowing you, you're probably done by now.