Lost Video Island

[FrecklesPhoenix]

Okay...

You may have noticed that I haven't submitted a LOST video in quite some time... and I wish that weren't the case but...

I HAVE VIDDING BLOCK FOR LOST!!!!!!!!

It's not that I don't have ideas... it's just that I don't have the motivation to fully map out the story of the video and hunt down clips and finish it. Like... The LOST Musical 3 was due back in MAY!!! May for crying out loud. It's almost July.

And the real pity is that I have Vegas now!!! I always felt so limited by Widows Movie Maker before... like I had all these great ideas for videos but I couldn't make them truly great because of the software I was using (which is total bull, btw, because I've seen some really phenomenal stuff made with WMM) and now I finally have better software but no motivation to use it...

...at least for LOST videos.

I HAVE been using Vegas.

But not for LOST videos. (Well, there was one... but it's just clips made pretty with glow.) I've made two fully Sony Vegas videos from scratch. One was for Iron Man, the other, for The Incredible Hulk.

I would appreciate input from Vegas users on things I could improve on both of them... as I'm happy to get any pointers I can. And even if you don't use Vegas, I'd love to know what you think of them. I wish I could offer a LOST video done in Vegas... but not yet.

Iron Man "Blow Me Away" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj4jizVAm-I

The Incredible Hulk "Diary of Jane" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpSn07plvi4

Alright... well.... there you have it. If you have any ideas on how to un-LOST vidding block me, feel free to share!!


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Avi by Debbie Banner by CDS1...

[Aislynn]

*waves Stick of Removing Vidder's Block over you*

Man, I wish it was that easy, lol! You might've noticed that I went nearly a year between my last two Lost vids and now it's been almost 4 months from "Only Hope." Yet I've vidded for several other fandoms in this amount of time. I'm always struggling to get back to Lost but a very wise person once told me that fandoms "speak" to you sometimes. In other words, you feel so inspired by them that you just have to vid for them (or make icons or whatever else fannish thing you want to do). But when a fandom stops speaking to you in that way, it becomes VERY hard to make something for it.

So I've found that no matter how much I want to vid for Lost, I have to wait until something speaks to me in such a way that I can't keep myself from vidding it. Otherwise, I'll never be able to get it done just through sheer "want-to" alone.

Congrats again on getting Vegas! You already know I loved your Iron Man one and I plan on watching the Hulk one very soon. I think the main thing, whether you're using WMM or Vegas or whatever, is just to vid whatever is speaking to you at the moment, whatever is inspiring you, and don't stress over it not being the fandom that you'd really rather it was. You may be kinda burned out on Lost right now and if you just take the pressure off of yourself to produce something, then you may find that the inspiration will actually come back!

That all probably isn't as helpful as a Stick of Removing Vidder's Block but I promise that, if I ever find one, I'll loan it to you as soon as I'm done waving it over myself, lol! ♥!

[FrecklesPhoenix]