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Post by rhoboat on Nov 13, 2011 4:12:02 GMT -5
Have you ever done something unintentionally with a vid that ended up looking really cool and made you look like a genius?
Over in the stupid vidding moments thread, I mentioned that I once accidentally left a clip in another track, but it ended up looking like a nifty effect that people actually commented on.
So what are some of your happy accidents in vidding?
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Post by legoline on Nov 13, 2011 4:28:12 GMT -5
I once used a clip of a guy being pushed down and there's this tiny loop of his fall in the source material that I completely missed. However when I watched the video it looked absolutely perfect because the at that precise moment the song does some sort of tiny loop as well, and the movement of both the song and the clip are just spot on. It is really cool and I almost feel like I cheated because it looks like I was really clever and did it on purpose when really, no ;D
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Post by obsessive24 on Nov 13, 2011 6:32:55 GMT -5
Great thread!  Am I the only one who doesn't remember those moments at all? Sometimes I do something cool accidentally, and I go yay, then I think I must just selectively forget that it was an accident, and then I strut around going "yeah, it's just cos I'm pure genius, bitches." ;D |
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Post by amnisias on Nov 13, 2011 7:34:12 GMT -5
[..]I once accidentally left a clip in another track, but it ended up looking like a nifty effect that people actually commented on. This happens to me a lot. SV has unlimited tracks, so I've got the habit of collecting a whole lot of clips that I've removed from the timeline and still want to use but don't know where on a dump track at the bottom. And sometimes I accidentally play the vid with dump track switched on, and there is a clip that perfectly fits the beat, or the lyrics, or two clips that just landed randomly next to each other fit together really well. The happy accidents don't always make it into the final cut, but some of my best moments came about like this, I think. |
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Post by barkley on Nov 13, 2011 11:26:07 GMT -5
Oh, yes, I do this all the time too. Nature abhors a vacuum, and I abhor an empty timeline. So when I start, I take four or five of my most emotional clips and I lay them out across the timeline just for fun. (This sometimes makes for fun times in collaborative vidding because Destina can usually tell when I'm just filling up space, but sometimes she's not so sure.) And sometimes those things are awesome! (and sometimes those things are awesome in their music matchy ways, but not in that spot, so I look and see if I have another music matchy spot to put them in.) Sometimes it can even change the direction of a vid. Like if I thought the third verse was about x, but random clip happened to really resonate with me about y, I start to build towards y instead of x. I love random clipping.
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Post by legoline on Nov 13, 2011 12:06:34 GMT -5
barkley that is a really interesting approach. It sounds like fun 
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Post by killabeez on Nov 13, 2011 12:09:22 GMT -5
Oh, yes, I do this all the time too. Nature abhors a vacuum, and I abhor an empty timeline. So when I start, I take four or five of my most emotional clips and I lay them out across the timeline just for fun. - I do that, too! I also do this if I'm trying to see whether a song will work for a fandom. Or, I take the video track from someone else's vid (or one of my other vids) about the character and lay it down over the song, to see if there's character/song parity. |
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Post by obsessive24 on Nov 13, 2011 12:30:03 GMT -5
Or, I take the video track from someone else's vid (or one of my other vids) about the character and lay it down over the song, to see if there's character/song parity. Really! That's so interesting! I never thought about doing that but imma start now. ;D |
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Post by barkley on Nov 13, 2011 15:36:29 GMT -5
barkley that is a really interesting approach. It sounds like fun I think I started that way because I started on iMovie where you had to vid linearly, so if I wanted to vid the end first, I'd have to fill up the beginning with "junk" clips. And then once I moved to Final Cut Express, where I could plop clips at will, the whole empty timeline thing scared me. So I never changed my ways. |
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Post by agirlnamedtruth on Nov 13, 2011 16:26:22 GMT -5
Have you ever done something unintentionally with a vid that ended up looking really cool and made you look like a genius I swear in my earlier vidding years, that's how I got by  What happens with me most of the time is while I'm putting the vid together, I'm way to close to notice anything cool like that happening and then when I watch the finished product, I'll notice all these little things, like total accidental amazing cross fades that looked 'meh' before and most often, how some scenes fit perfectly with the music. <-- Now that, my dears, is a run-on sentence o.0 But yeah, am I the only one this tends to happens to when I'm vidding at crazy o'clock and am barely awake. I'll look at it the next morning and be like "how the eff did I do that"  |
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Post by buffyann on Nov 13, 2011 16:31:43 GMT -5
barkley - I do that, too! I also do this if I'm trying to see whether a song will work for a fandom. Or, I take the video track from someone else's vid (or one of my other vids) about the character and lay it down over the song, to see if there's character/song parity. Hehe, I do that too ! It really helps me determine if the song is indeed a good fit for the fandom and if it suits the universe in terms of how the music parallels the look of the show. I never really went as far as looking for character/song parity cause then you have to find a vid from someone else that would have a similar angle than yours so clip selection match ? maybe not ? I'm thinking outloud. I remember having a happy accident with one vid cause it was just a clip that hanging there for future use and happened to be perfectly timed with the music and so I thought oh cool, i'll leave it there. But then everyone started to say it was the best moment of the vid and I felt like a fraud  |
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Post by killabeez on Nov 13, 2011 16:56:30 GMT -5
I never really went as far as looking for character/song parity cause then you have to find a vid from someone else that would have a similar angle than yours so clip selection match ? maybe not ? I was thinking specifically of Highlander, where the look of the show changed quite a bit from earlier seasons to later, and a couple of cases where I did this, it was more about the aesthetics than the character, really. I misspoke. |
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Post by nos on Nov 13, 2011 21:29:41 GMT -5
I live for these moments. There is one in Astronaut that I remember, during the sequence dealing with the lake. I had clipped out some stuff and laid it on the timeline, knowing in general what I wanted there, and as I drug over the double beat, I realized at that moment that there were two quick shots in that scene, and the Doctor was double tapped. It entertained me for hours. Cause I am sadistic like that.
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Post by gnattery on Nov 13, 2011 22:26:18 GMT -5
I realized at that moment that there were two quick shots in that scene, and the Doctor was double tapped. For serious that is my favourite bit in the vid. It looks like you kind of de-emphasised it in the final version though, which I was a little sad about. EDIT: Actually nope, I think I just remembered the draft wrong. |
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Post by legoline on Nov 14, 2011 2:03:53 GMT -5
I also do this if I'm trying to see whether a song will work for a fandom. Or, I take the video track from someone else's vid (or one of my other vids) about the character and lay it down over the song, to see if there's character/song parity. That one hadn't even occured to me ... O.o You folks are all so ingenius in your ways. |
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