WOW late reply - it's partly because, well, that's a really interesting question and one I didn't have an immediate answer for. But it's four days later now and I still don't have an answer that completely satisfies me, so instead I will list the things that I have considered as contributory to the change in my style.
- I plan less meticulously, which means I more often reach places in the vid where I don't have a strong precise idea for what clip I'm using next. Even when I did plan meticulously, plans shifted, but at least if I just wanted to get some more progress done I had something I could put down. Now I more often go, "Okay and then I'm not 100% sure what needs to go next. I should let this sit in my brain a while and mull over the lyric for a ten minutes while I do xyz..."
- I use higher quality source which means that playback isn't as smooth so I render chunks to check timing more frequently. Sometimes sort of obsessively... Again that necessitates breaks in vidding.
- I make more technically demanding vids. Not always, but more often I have complex effects requiring multiple tracks. It's just more fiddly and time-consuming than it used to be and can bog down the vidding process so again, breaks help.
- Somewhat sadly, it's been a long time since I've had one major, primarly fandom in the way I used to have with BSG or Farscape. As a result, even when I feel I know the source pretty well, I don't know it that well. I don't know it as well as "I've already vidded this eighteen times..." well. Because I don't clip, that means more time scrubbing through source looking for clips I might want to use.
- I vid in physically different spaces than I used to. My set up used to be more physically isolated from the people I lived with. Like I was in a corner and they couldn't easily see what I was doing. Now I'm more often in spaces where someone could glance over at my laptop, etc. I feel MASSIVELY self-conscious about that and tend to go get on with something else in those situations. I should add that's not a reflection on my husband (the only person I currently share a living space with). He knows I vid and thinks it's cool and would never like, poke his head over my shoulder all, "Whatcha doing...?" because while he thinks I shouldn't be self-conscious, he'd never try to make me feel more so. But...doesn't matter. I'm shy. I don't like vidding when people can see unless they're also vidders.
- I actually have more free time than I used to in some ways. My free time tends to be concentrated in like, whole days where I'm not doing anything and then whole days where I'm busy rather than a few hours in the evening. I think I've slid from three hours of solid vidding in an evening to like, three hours of vidding split across a six hours of idleness?
I think a combination of all those factors is probably why my style changed. But I wouldn't really attribute it to any one over another. Actually, that was pretty comprehensive, wasn't it? :p
ON TO STREAMING:
I feel better about streaming now than I did basically because I finally got decent wifi so it's not a big deal most of the time. And I do find it convenient to watch a vid before I decide if I want to download it for future rewatching. But downloading is definitely my preferred method of vid-watching/keeping for vids I actually want to watch/keep. Also streaming is just so transitory these days. :(
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Date: 2014-09-16 10:58 am (UTC)- I plan less meticulously, which means I more often reach places in the vid where I don't have a strong precise idea for what clip I'm using next. Even when I did plan meticulously, plans shifted, but at least if I just wanted to get some more progress done I had something I could put down. Now I more often go, "Okay and then I'm not 100% sure what needs to go next. I should let this sit in my brain a while and mull over the lyric for a ten minutes while I do xyz..."
- I use higher quality source which means that playback isn't as smooth so I render chunks to check timing more frequently. Sometimes sort of obsessively... Again that necessitates breaks in vidding.
- I make more technically demanding vids. Not always, but more often I have complex effects requiring multiple tracks. It's just more fiddly and time-consuming than it used to be and can bog down the vidding process so again, breaks help.
- Somewhat sadly, it's been a long time since I've had one major, primarly fandom in the way I used to have with BSG or Farscape. As a result, even when I feel I know the source pretty well, I don't know it that well. I don't know it as well as "I've already vidded this eighteen times..." well. Because I don't clip, that means more time scrubbing through source looking for clips I might want to use.
- I vid in physically different spaces than I used to. My set up used to be more physically isolated from the people I lived with. Like I was in a corner and they couldn't easily see what I was doing. Now I'm more often in spaces where someone could glance over at my laptop, etc. I feel MASSIVELY self-conscious about that and tend to go get on with something else in those situations. I should add that's not a reflection on my husband (the only person I currently share a living space with). He knows I vid and thinks it's cool and would never like, poke his head over my shoulder all, "Whatcha doing...?" because while he thinks I shouldn't be self-conscious, he'd never try to make me feel more so. But...doesn't matter. I'm shy. I don't like vidding when people can see unless they're also vidders.
- I actually have more free time than I used to in some ways. My free time tends to be concentrated in like, whole days where I'm not doing anything and then whole days where I'm busy rather than a few hours in the evening. I think I've slid from three hours of solid vidding in an evening to like, three hours of vidding split across a six hours of idleness?
I think a combination of all those factors is probably why my style changed. But I wouldn't really attribute it to any one over another. Actually, that was pretty comprehensive, wasn't it? :p
ON TO STREAMING:
I feel better about streaming now than I did basically because I finally got decent wifi so it's not a big deal most of the time. And I do find it convenient to watch a vid before I decide if I want to download it for future rewatching. But downloading is definitely my preferred method of vid-watching/keeping for vids I actually want to watch/keep. Also streaming is just so transitory these days. :(