jmtorres: From Lady Gaga's Bad Romance music video; the peach-haired, wide-eyed iteration (Default)
2010-08-05 05:54 pm

traveling

Not off the ground yet. Still hanging out in Sky Harbor. Got felt up at security (I think they were checking to see if I was hiding something in my voluminous skirt), got dinner at Starbucks, watched vids on my nano for a while, now taking advantage of the free wireless.

niq made it safely to Chicago before I ever left the house. While it was nice to have a day to make sure I had my crap together and freak out and have lunch together, I kind of wish I was there already.

When I went to make up effects blood I discovered I had neither corn syrup nor food coloring in the house. That was about half an hour until my pick up for the airport so at that point I shrugged and said "Eh, I'll get it at the store in Chicago." I feel very silly for going through the trouble of finding a 3 oz container to carry it in, though. And also I feel like a crazy person, I could have SWORN the materials I got for a shoot last year were still around the house somewhere.

I also realized I won't be able to clip or lay timeline on the plane unless there's an outlet by the seat I can plug Jenny (the new external hard drive) into, because while I have all the media I meant to bring on Jenny, and then some, I did not put any on the laptop. Oh well, I can listen to vidding songs on repeat on the nano (manual repeat; if there is a way to set it repeat a single song I have not figured it out).

I'll be getting into Chicago around midnight, going straight to the room and falling down, I think. Or possibly hooking up Jenny and giving vidding a go. Who knows.

The plane is here, most of the previous passengers have disembarked, so I think I'll close up the laptop and pay a little attention.

In conclusion: CUPCAKES.
jmtorres: From Lady Gaga's Bad Romance music video; the peach-haired, wide-eyed iteration (Default)
2010-08-04 04:53 am
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You can take this in a limited way as a recs list

Due to an external hard drive failure, I am in the process of redownloading all kinds of people's vids. Apparently I set my browser's download memory to be eternal, so I have four years of download records (since I bought this computer). I figured I might as well post this list of links of vids I have found worth acquiring twice.

in reverse chronological order )
jmtorres: From Lady Gaga's Bad Romance music video; the peach-haired, wide-eyed iteration (Default)
2010-08-01 10:58 pm

So.

I want to make a vid at Vividcon. I was toying with one idea but... I decided the one idea was too much emotional work, primarily. So I'm pulling up other items on the burner and putting it to a vote. I don't swear to abide by the vote but you know, might influence me.

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 14


What vid should I make at vividcon?

View Answers

Big Wolf on Campus - Scott Bakula. Pros: source makes me happy. Cons: source is late nineties VHS rip.
2 (14.3%)

Enterprise - Mrs. Robinson. Pros: source makes me happy. Cons: Lots of source, also few other people will watch with me.
0 (0.0%)

Leverage - I Drink Alone. Pros: source makes me happy; this vid will probably only get made if I can do it in one weekend. Cons: I haaaate Nathan Ford.
1 (7.1%)

Sherlock Holmes - Bad Romance. Pros: very short source, many people want this. Cons: effects heavy, has been awhile since I was passionate, song cut is um *almost* done.
3 (21.4%)

Supernatural - Come Out And Play. Pros: About half done already. Cons: A little burned out on SPN right now.
1 (7.1%)

White Collar - The Distance. Pros: source makes me happy, about a third done. Cons: Working off a back-up file due to crashed drive, and remastering that finished section from DVD rip.
7 (50.0%)

jmtorres: a flying sheep, which I am informed has special significance in World of Warcraft (meme)
2010-07-30 05:33 pm

Meme time

If you could chain me to a laptop and make me write any story you wanted, what would you choose?

If you could chain me to a laptop and make me vid any vid you wanted, what would you choose?
jmtorres: From Lady Gaga's Bad Romance music video; the peach-haired, wide-eyed iteration (Default)
2010-07-29 02:17 am

Vid bunnies

I am going to be brave enough to put this list out here publicly, because as much as I might irrationally fear it, no one's going to poach my vid ideas, for two reasons: vidders all have more ideas of their own than they will ever have time to make (I know I do), and no one can make the vid I would make, because I am unique (just like everyone else).

Vids that live in my head:

Being Human - Season of Illusions by Ladytron (the abusive boyfriend vid)
Big Wolf on Campus - Scott Bakula by Sunspot (the Merton's gay dilemma vid)
Enterprise - Mrs. Robinson by The Lemonheads (the trashy holonovel vid)
Merlin - Falcon in the Dive (the [personal profile] ysobel is going to vid with me damn it vid)
Meta - Tradition (the two finger salute vid)
Multifandom - Beautiful Things by Bobby Darin (the OOH SHINY heist tribute)
Multifandom - Woodstock by Joni Mitchell (the escaping dystopia vid)
Multifandom - various (the Badfic vid)
Red Dwarf - Never Set the Cat on Fire by Frank Hayes (the co-vid with [personal profile] traykor)
Sherlock Holmes - Bad Romance by Lady Gaga (the objectifying the masculine vid)
Supernatural - Please Don't Leave Me by Pink (the candy tears vid)
Supernatural - Come Out and Play by The Offspring (the thesis on season 4 vid)
Supernatural (ish) - Panic Switch by Silversun Pickups (Janie's vid)
Supernatural (ish) - Dark Eyes (the history of Ruby vid)
Supernatural (ish) - Turning the Page by, probably, Metallica (the fixing your con vid)
Tru Calling - Madeleine by Jonathan Coulton (the I had to watch it, I have to mock it vid)
White Collar - The Distance by Cake (the Kate as quest object vid)
White Collar - Pisco Bandito by Moxy Früvous (the everyone needs a themesong vid)

This is not all-inclusive, though I am a little startled at some of the older projects that sat up and said HEY when I was making this list.

*ponders list* Three vids primarily about heterosexual relationships (all negative!, in different ways), three vids primarily about homosexual relationships (hmm, more ambiguous), three vids that are essentially male character studies (ranging), three vids that are essentially female character studies (all sympathetic), three vids that are primarily about social issues before any specific fannish content, three vids that my brain files as crack (instead of in any of the preceding categories).

Hmm.

Anyone wanna talk vids with me?
jmtorres: From Lady Gaga's Bad Romance music video; the peach-haired, wide-eyed iteration (Default)
2010-07-12 06:26 am

The non-ideal functionality of my brain

Last night (what, three weeks after the fact?) I figured out how to make niq's cut of the vid work marvelously. It would have required changing more of the verse even than she did.

I am currently gnawing on a subjective reality problem. It's actually a dual subjective reality problem with elements informed by a cultural narrative of heteronormative sexism, which makes it difficult to bring up without sounding accusatory in the face of genuinely good intentions. Also I am arguably not awake enough yet to be coherent.
jmtorres: From Lady Gaga's Bad Romance music video; the peach-haired, wide-eyed iteration (Default)
2010-07-10 08:19 pm

I made a vid. I thought you might liked to be warned.

I made a vid for Vividcon Premieres. If you are into that sort of thing, you can read content warnings about it here.

My vid for vividcon )

ETA: And you can find the vid here.
jmtorres: Quinn from Sliders asleep with book open on his chest. Text: Sweet dreams. (sleep)
2010-06-24 12:57 am

Sigh

As hopeful as that icon is, I'm beginning to think I need a zombie or something to use for when I can't sleep, at all, which, fuck me, I'm split shifting my sleep again. Whyyy.

Do I stay up until ^H^H^H^H^H wow I'm tired enough that I nearly used niq's rl name. Right. Do I stay up until niq gets back or try to fall down some more?

ETA: What. OH my god what. *DYING* So I came across a vid on youtube, Sam/Ruby, Lady Gaga, because HE CAN'T READ HER POKER FACE. And the best part is that it is played TOTALLY SRSLY. Oh my god I can't breathe.

After this I'm watching the Sam/Ruby/Dean "Bad Romance" (PLEASE let that be an appropriate use of the / symbol) and the Ruby/Sam/Dean "Love Game" (LIKEWISE). Hahahaha oh youtube.

ETA2: Worth a view--

Alejandro, blondes of Supernatural wish they could stop getting refrigeratored for the Winchester men.
jmtorres: Loki in dog form. Text: Yes? (Loki)
2010-06-19 09:14 pm

I teach people how to vid so they'll make me things

[personal profile] grey_bard made me a vid! It is to Adam Lambert's "For Your Entertainment" and it is a Supernatural vid about Gabriel. YOU GUYS I LOVE ME SOME GABRIEL. [personal profile] grey_bard MADE ME A VID.

I have so much heart for this. Gabriel is such as asshole and she got all of his best SMIRK. And *flailhands GLEECAPS* hi I love this vid.
jmtorres: (daddy winchester)
2010-06-19 01:36 am

IT'S A VID

first draft complete! does anyone want to beta my Supernatural vid?
jmtorres: Electric Mayhem: the Muppet Band's bus. (music)
2010-06-18 11:56 pm
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Ow

Went to Cake concert. It was loud. Enjoyed it aside from the burnout of my ears. Vidding will be interesting tonight.
jmtorres: Quinn from Sliders asleep with book open on his chest. Text: Sweet dreams. (sleep)
2010-06-17 10:36 pm

paper vidding

Why the fuck does it always come back to paper vidding for me? Like, I've tried to do the same thing in a text doc and apparently words in front of me is not enough, no, I really do need to vid some part of every vid on paper. I should just give in and admit I'm a tree-killer.

Having finished this vid on a fucking NAPKIN I will now instead of finishing it in final cut go the fuck to sleep. Because that makes sense.

(I am so overbooked, what the fuck is even going on.)
jmtorres: (daddy winchester)
2010-06-17 01:21 pm

*tears hair out at vid*

Right, I think this bit will be My Bloody Valentine, then. Naked Cupid ftw.
jmtorres: Electric Mayhem: the Muppet Band's bus. (music)
2010-06-16 12:55 am

Whoops

So apparently FCP handles mp3s poorly; I went back to check in iTunes and QT to see if this audio track had as many blips as it did in FCP and the answer was "no, no it does not." So I made an AIFF out of the mp3 in QT and swapped out the source file in FCP and magically, all the weird blippy vaguely-clipping-but-in-an-analogue-magnetic-tape-sounding-way,-and-even-though-the-decibels-never-went-above-negative-5-or-so went away! Yay!

Except that I realized I may have been vidding a clip or two to artificially introduced noise. There's one in particular that... well, I'm considering adding a sound effect. *headdesk*

When I said I picked this recording of the song for the cheese factor...

eta: *starts examining sound effects* oooh. Maybe this needs more cowbell.

eta2: Every time I go hunting through audio loops I discover I love the dorkitude that went into these more than... than sleep. I swear this one is called 'electronic surge' because 'lightsaber hum' would get them sued.
jmtorres: Animated icon showing Iz and Max from Roswell serious and grinning like fools. Text: alien love/shiny alien love. (shiny)
2010-06-15 11:49 pm

interesting

I'm running range check on this vid right now (which makes sure that data isn't too bright or saturated for television; if it is, you dump Broadcast Safe filter on it and it clamps the relevant above max data). Now, normally stuff you get that's been on TV? Passes range check. And only stuff you've fucked around with fails. And furthermore I'm vidding Supernatural; if there was a "your footage is too dark, no one will be able to see jack shit" check, I would expect it to go off every four frames. (There is not. Even though it is actually possible to have blacks blacker than broadcast black. Go figure.)

However, it would appear Supernatural fucks around at the edge of range a lot. So far, things that have set off the meter:

--the burning light of SATAN
--Sam killing Alistair
--Sam killing Lilith
--gunfire
--Colt bullets burning out demons
--backlighting through venetian blinds
--things Sam sees in visions
--the COVERS of CHUCK'S BOOKS (seriously what)
--candles

PS Sam was like, two feet from Daddy Azazel when he shot him in the leg. There should not be a three-frame time gap between him firing and Azazel being hit. Just saying.

ETA: Relevant Bruce the Yak quote: What's the sound of one luma clamping?
jmtorres: (daddy winchester)
2010-06-15 05:33 am

....WAIT.

Deep vidding questions part #8951

Hmm. Should the authorial voice be Chuck, or should it be BECKY?
jmtorres: (daddy winchester)
2010-06-13 09:58 pm

demons.

For vidding purposes, I have pulled up Jus in Bello, and honestly if I ever have a hard time figuring out where to go for this vid all I need to do is check the list of episode title abbreviations [personal profile] my girlfriend loves to use that I always have to look up (probably the reason there's so much AHBL in this vid so far). (PS honey I have to show you this. *flail hands*)

Anyway, JiB. This bit always gets me:

Henriksen: I... shot the sheriff.
Dean: But you didn't shoot the deputy.

And Sam's LOOK. Just. Oh my God. It is the "I am disowning you" look. The "shut up, jackass" look. The "how are we even RELATED" look. Yeah, I kind of heart that look.

It might be going in the vid.

Or maybe I'll just stick to the holy water swirly.
jmtorres: Nic Lea played a robot on Outer Limits. Dose of denial: Krycek replicant. (Krycek)
2010-06-12 12:15 am

Sigh

So once upon a time [personal profile] sineala made an X-files vid called Sorry about Krycek. I remember at the time she hadn't watched "Existence," which is the episode in which Krycek dies (see also: my icon. I watched it, I just chose to ignore it), but she needed the clip. So as I recall it she scrolled through the episodes with her hands over her eyes, put a clip on the timeline and let it render it was magically the exact clip she needed.

I find myself wistfully thinking of that, wondering if I could have pulled it off, oh, six times in quick succession. Because I'm up on SPN now, but I'm kind of having viewer's remorse. Oh well. What's seen is seen, yeah? And it's not like I don't live in AU-land overtime with bells on anyway.

Did anyone else think that maybe spoiler cut, or am I the last person on the internet to have seen this? ) I mean, just sayin'.
jmtorres: Castiel speaking on his cell phone: "Even as we speak, it's... going... down." (castiel)
2010-06-09 10:56 pm

hahahaahhaahahahahahahahahahahh

So, the source still a sight unseen, we ([personal profile] niqaeli and I) have determined what our vid, song and concept is for Vividcon premieres (that's due in two weeks and we haven't started on yet). And I check my email and I'm off the waiting list.

Hahaha. Ahem.

We are taking bets that we close first half this year.

ETA:

niq: ...are we making a meta vid again? I think we are.
juls: CRAP. Fuck it *G*
niq: It's a hilarious meta vid!

ETA2: YOU GUISE. I HAVE A CONCEPT SKETCH. WHAT.

ETA3: SERIOUSLY WHY AM I DRAWING AN 11"x14" SKETCH OF SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO GET LIKE, 90x90 PIXELS, TOPS?