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| Pixelated/Choppy Quality in Vegas Preview/Render |
Author:
PsychoCynic ::
Posted:
Sat Mar 02, 2013 2:54 am
Hi everyone,
So I've been trying to rip a DVD for a long while! Recently, I discovered one ripping tool and conversion tool that actually worked and left the video in good quality!
Imagine my disdain when I discovered that when I bring it into Vegas, the video turns very pixelated and choppy and just UNUSABLE!
I turned my XVID AVI into DIVX AVI, which has worked in the past just fine!
Have anyone had this happen to them in the past? What was the problem?  More importantly, what was the solution?!
Thanks in advance!
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| LVI's Featured CM for March! |
Author:
LVI Council ::
Posted:
Fri Mar 01, 2013 8:08 am
This month’s Featured CM is KajaM aka Karolina!
Karolina has been a wonderful member of this site since 2005. She became a CM in August of 2006, and left due to RL commitments in 2008. She rejoined the Council in September of 2011, and we were thrilled to have her back! She has made close to 100 videos, all of them lovely to look at and beautifully edited. She is a great vidder, an awesome CM, and a valuable member of LVI!
1) What got you interested in vidding?
It was mainly a fanvid about Mulder’s & Scully’s relationship (from the TV show The X-Files), set to a truly beautiful song by Sarah McLachlan, that I found at some fanpage on the internet. This must’ve easily been more than ten years ago and compared to today’s standards of fan vidding it was probably a very „simple“ vid, but I was all in awe *lol* I wanted to be able to do something like that myself! I later found some of Heather’s (Uruviel’s) Lord of the Rings vids on the internet and I think that’s also how I found Lost Video Island (in 2005), but I’m not sure about that anymore. Browsing through the LVI forums, I discovered a lot of helpful tips and tricks and then took my first “baby steps” in vidding with Windows Movie Maker… a horrible program at that time, but quite useful for a newbie vidder really *lol*
2) Do you have a tip, trick, or technique to share?
Like some of the other Featured Members, I like to print out the lyrics of the song I’m going to use and I make a lot of handwritten notes on which characters, scenes, quotes etc. I want to use for the different parts of the song. It’s a good way of mapping out where you want to go with your vid.
While working on my vids in Sony Vegas, I use markers… A LOT! They’re very helpful for the beat use and as a pointer to the major moments in your vid. I try to figure out what I want the vid to look like (colouring-wise), so that it’ll fit with the mood & atmosphere of the song, and from then onwards it’s a lot of experimenting, editing-rendering-and-watching and then re-editing, re-rendering and re-watching.
3) What are your favorite current fandoms?
Definitely Game Of Thrones and The Walking Dead, but I’ve also been watching a lot of Downton Abbey, Breaking Bad and The Tudors lately. I think those may also be my new vidding fandoms  I sometimes like to go back to old fandoms though like Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Harry Potter etc. – for example in multi-fandom vids.
4) What was your first vid and what is your favorite vid you've done?
My first vid… ahem… was a very cheesy vid for Lost’s Kate and Sawyer. Kinda ironic, considering how much I later despised that whole triangle / quadrangle thing I never re-watched this vid in the later years and I’m not sure if I ever want to watch it again. It’s just too embarrassing *lol*
There are a lot vids that I love, even after many years, but also vids that I hate or that I’m really dissatisfied with. I think my “babies” are the ones that I still feel emotionally attached to like “How It Ends” (a vid about Charlie’s death on Lost), “All I Need” (a character study for Boomer from Battlestar Galactica), “Lifeline” (a shippy vid for Carol/Daryl from The Walking Dead) or “Heartbeats” (tribute to the Stark family from Game Of Thrones). There are vids that I’m proud of in technical terms but the emotional ones are more precious to me.
5) Do you have any goals as far as skill improvement or dream projects?
I always try to improve skills that I’m not so good at. Beat use, for example, is one of the things that, to me, is always worthy of improvement. At some point in the future I’d like to make a vid that is really heavy on masking and split-screens, so that I can improve those skills as well. Cylune’s “Before The Dawn” is a perfect example for that. The masking and the split-screens are breathtaking! I’d like to have enough time and especially PATIENCE at some point to do something like that.
6) A lot of your vids have dialog though out them flawlessly, how do you accomplish this?
It’s funny that I got this question, really, because I used to hate audio editing in the past! I used to avoid using dialog in my vids because I wasn’t really good at it and I didn’t enjoy it at all. At some point, however, I realised that dialogues and voiceovers are sometimes very useful, especially for character or relationship studies. From that point onwards it was basically a matter of practicing… finding the right quotes, cutting them properly, trying to find a good point in the song to fit the dialog in. That’s the trickiest part, imo – finding the right point because often the music is too loud, the beats are too heavy etc. for any type of voiceover. It’s a matter of trial-error-and-improve, I think.
7) Your videos are always edited very well and also have beautiful coloring. Which is more challenging for you, the editing or the coloring?
Both are equally challenging, I think, but at different points in the process of video making. Colouring is one of the very first things that I put my mind to – after choosing the song/fandom/characters, and developing a general idea for my vid. I always try to find a colouring that fits with the overall theme and mood/atmosphere of my vid. Sometimes it’s very easy, sometimes I waste hours on the colouring alone. The actual editing comes next and here it depends on what I want to do… if I want to try using some new effects, if I have to pay close attention to the lyrics or the beat, if I’m going to use voiceovers. I’d say that finding the right type of colouring is trickier, but most of my time, effort and work definitely goes into the editing.
Featured Videos:
Dethroned - a gorgeous trailer for Game of Thrones with excellent beat use.
Into My Bloodstream - Daryl/Carol - a lovely shippy video with beautiful coloring.
Let Go, Brother - Boromir - a character video that is visually stunning, and a great song choice.
Thank you Karolina, for being such a great longtime part of LVI!
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| LVI's Featured Member for March! |
Author:
LVI Council ::
Posted:
Fri Mar 01, 2013 8:07 am
This month's featured member is one of our new LVI talents, Vidstep (Andy)!
Andy joined the LVI in October 2012 and has been an active member ever since. Andy has been enhancing our repertoire of music and fandom genres with lesser-vidded genres such as dubstep music or video game fandoms.
1) What got you interested in vidding?
I used to play a lot of computer games. I used a program called "Fraps" to record my gameplay as a video file, and I would then add music to it. This is how I first started messing around with editing using Windows Movie Maker. I've always loved watching music videos both professional and fan made and often wished I knew how to make my own. I'm very glad I taught myself how to do so. Few things are quite as rewarding as watching a video you've just created for the first time.
2) Do you have a tip, trick, or technique to share?
One tip that I often have a hard time remembering myself is to always remember that vidding is supposed to be fun and enjoyable. Vidding should never feel like a chore and you should never feel like you are forcing yourself to edit. When I find myself feeling this way I know it's time for a break and I find something else to do until my heart is back in it.
3) What are your favorite current fandoms?
My favorite fandom to vid to is Red vs Blue (Web series by Rooster Teeth, loosely based on the Halo video games) I love vidding to RvB because the animation and choreography of the fight scenes is really amazing. I find that synchronizing the action sequences to music is quite fun and very enjoyable to watch. Another fandom I really enjoyed editing was The Walking Dead. I've only done one TWD video so far but I really enjoyed it and plan to do more soon.
4) What was your first vid and what is your favorite vid you've done?
While it technically wasn't my first vid ever, my Archer "Danger Zone" video is one of my earliest and was the first upload to my YouTube channel. It's really hard to pick a favorite, but I think the video I'm most proud of is "The End Is Coming" (The Walking Dead). I spent significantly more time on this video than I have on any other video so far.
5) Do you have any goals as far as skill improvement or dream projects?
My goal is to become as familiar with Sony Vegas as I am now with Cyberlink Power Director. I have lots of unfinished projects, and lots of project ideas that I haven't started yet, my dream is to finish them all some day!
6) You vid a lot to dubstep music. Vidding-wise, what makes this type of music so interesting for you?
Syncing to the beat has always been first and foremost for me when editing. I like editing to dubstep because it has such a unique variety of sounds. For me it's just the right tempo and fits well with what I like to edit, which is primarily action footage. I like that dubstep generally starts out somewhat calm and gradually builds up to what is refered to as the "drop" and then gets crazy. It's just fun to mimic what is going on the music using video footage and visual effects.
7) You also seem to enjoy making vids about video games. How do you go about making this type of vid and what would you say the difference is between vidding video games and vidding TV shows/movies?
I'd say the biggest difference between editing TV shows/movies and editing a video game is what the video focuses on. When editing to a TV show or movie you are likely to focus on a character or a relationship between characters. When editing to a video game you are likely to focus on the gameplay and how you (the player) are interacting with the game or other players within the game.
Featured Videos:
The End is Coming - an awesome recap to S1-S3.1 of the TV show The Walking Dead with brilliant editing throughout almost 7 minutes!
Project Freelancer - an action-packed and fast-paced vid to the video game fandom Halo. Amazing beat use and edits!
Skyfall - a tribute to the newest James Bond movie with the editing flowing smoothly with the beat
Thank you, Andy, for all your wonderful contributions!
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| March Contest Information |
Author:
HobbitRockGod ::
Posted:
Fri Mar 01, 2013 7:03 am
March 2013
Indie Film Appreciation
Deadline: April 3 - extended!
Details:
Whether they make it big like Silver Linings Playbook, or stay relatively unknown like Ten Inch Hero, everyone’s probably got an indie film or two they love! This month, we’d love to see you vid those indie films and show us what makes them so special. Even though they’re not movies everyone may have seen, you love them, and we want to see why!
Specific Contest Rules:
-Make a vid about one indie film.
-No TV shows or multifandom.
-No AUs, Crossovers, or OCs.
-Running time should be no longer than 5 minutes. We suggest the 3 - 5 minute range.
-The more creative, the better. Don't be afraid to take risks.
-When entering your video on the Submit page, you MUST enter "March 2013 contest submission" exactly in your vid's description.
General Contest Rules:
-Contest submissions should be entered through the Submit page
-All regular submissions Rules apply.
-Only one entry per vidder
Videos already submitted and RELEVANT can be submitted again, but we would rather see something fresh. (Please contact a CM if you wish to enter a previously-submitted video)
-Please do not use Rapidshare or Yousendit as your only hosting place.
-If you're using Youtube as your primary link, please also provide us with an alternative link. Far too often, YT is either disabled or muted by the time the contest is ready to be judged. Mediafire and Sendspace are just a coupleof the sites out there that can be used as reliable backup links.
-Keep in mind that however you choose to host your video, it must be available to be watched at least until after the deadline has passed. If we can not access your video at the time of judgment it will not be considered.
-Have fun!
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