running ragged

[jmtorres]

I have been burning the candle at both ends, hit the ground running at six thirty in the morning, never off work on time because it's goddamn rush season, all week long. And it's only Wednesday Thursday, and my classes start tomorrow some four hours after I have to get up, and next week I am working until 9 every night per schedule.

I keep thinking of entries I want to write and never being at a computer to write them. I want to write vidding meta. There was a entry in my head today about how vidders (ones I know anyway) choose songs, and how some songs are obvious to everyone and some are only obvious in retrospect once the brilliant vid is made. And I keep thinking about writing up some really basic Final Cut stuff, because things like markers OMG SO USEFUL yet news to some friends.

Anyway, since I am failing at getting those entries started on my own, I would like to put it out there, is there any part of vidding as a process or my vids in particular that you would like me to talk about? I am now taking questions from the audience. seperis, I am looking at you.

Comments

[grey_bard]

Clipping is - however you choose to do it - selecting specific clips that you think might be useful for the vid. You can do it on paper, you can do it by actually creating new files, you can do it by selecting segments of a file (which remains intact and does not create another file) to save in your video file and other ways too.

Basically, it is the act of locating precisely where that footage of the lady eating the hamburger or the Enterprise blowing up is for future use.