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beccatoria) wrote2007-04-30 07:16 pm
beccatoria) wrote2007-04-30 07:16 pm
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Vid: Hallelujah - BSG, Laura/Lee
Yes. It's actually finished. For sordid details, see vidder's comments below:
Title: Hallelujah
Pairing: Lee/Laura (Lee POV)
Spoilers: Through 3.20
Summary: Lee and Laura; love is a cold and a broken hallelujah.
Link: Hallelujah - 35mb, .wmv file.
Password: vidses
Feedback is love.
Dude, this vid damn near killed me.
Originally it was supposed to be a Laura/Lee vid that focused exclusively on them - ignoring the various other romances/realities of the show. Lots of long, slow clips and fades that had to make use of internal rhythm and motion within the clip instead of faster cuts.
The technical aim remains the same - the slow cuts, the grand, elegiac feel (I hope). I'm...mostly happy with the timing. (See more below).
Regarding the subject matter, well, obviously it's still a Lee/Laura video, but it switched rather dramatically to being entirely from Lee's point of view and started to peripherally touch on Dee, Kara and even Oldama. It turned into a relationship falling apart (possibly to rise again? *hopes*) - love collapsing through circumstance though neither parted wanted it that way.
In short, I think it turned into my Lee Adama's video. Perhaps this is my shipper manifesto; what happened from 2.13 onwards if you're me.
As to why this vid damn near killed me, well lets just say I tried using slightly higher source files than usual - which did work, ultimately. So this is much better resolution than most of my BSG vids. Unfortunatley, my highly crappy vidding program (WMM2) couldn't handle it (or the large number of effects, despite the fact they're not obvious), decided to start crashing two thirds of the vid, refusing to render. In the end I had to reinstall my entire freaking operating system, spend literally hours test rendering (when it would work at all) and finally render it in chunks so there were fewer clips. Unfortunately that meant that in two or three sections it's about two or three frames out of synch. It's a small issue that doesn't terribly affect the timing - which I'm still generally happy with. But it niggles. Also unfortunately, it is basically impossible to fix since the program won't render all the clips together, and this happens when I amalgamate them. Plus I lost a lot of the clip markers from the source files when I reinstalled everything meaning unless I rerip it I can't make frame-specific edits to the first half anymore.
Soooo...what I'm saying is, I wouldn't be posting this if I weren't happy with it. And it's as good as it's going to get given my retrograde technology. But it'll never be an editing accomplishment like "Jesus Walks".
Yeah. And, um, that's me bitching about how this video damn near killed me and reduced me to tears at least twice. Hi. Hopefully you won't all now think this vid is crappy before even seeing it!
Title: Hallelujah
Pairing: Lee/Laura (Lee POV)
Spoilers: Through 3.20
Summary: Lee and Laura; love is a cold and a broken hallelujah.
Link: Hallelujah - 35mb, .wmv file.
Password: vidses
Feedback is love.
Dude, this vid damn near killed me.
Originally it was supposed to be a Laura/Lee vid that focused exclusively on them - ignoring the various other romances/realities of the show. Lots of long, slow clips and fades that had to make use of internal rhythm and motion within the clip instead of faster cuts.
The technical aim remains the same - the slow cuts, the grand, elegiac feel (I hope). I'm...mostly happy with the timing. (See more below).
Regarding the subject matter, well, obviously it's still a Lee/Laura video, but it switched rather dramatically to being entirely from Lee's point of view and started to peripherally touch on Dee, Kara and even Oldama. It turned into a relationship falling apart (possibly to rise again? *hopes*) - love collapsing through circumstance though neither parted wanted it that way.
In short, I think it turned into my Lee Adama's video. Perhaps this is my shipper manifesto; what happened from 2.13 onwards if you're me.
As to why this vid damn near killed me, well lets just say I tried using slightly higher source files than usual - which did work, ultimately. So this is much better resolution than most of my BSG vids. Unfortunatley, my highly crappy vidding program (WMM2) couldn't handle it (or the large number of effects, despite the fact they're not obvious), decided to start crashing two thirds of the vid, refusing to render. In the end I had to reinstall my entire freaking operating system, spend literally hours test rendering (when it would work at all) and finally render it in chunks so there were fewer clips. Unfortunately that meant that in two or three sections it's about two or three frames out of synch. It's a small issue that doesn't terribly affect the timing - which I'm still generally happy with. But it niggles. Also unfortunately, it is basically impossible to fix since the program won't render all the clips together, and this happens when I amalgamate them. Plus I lost a lot of the clip markers from the source files when I reinstalled everything meaning unless I rerip it I can't make frame-specific edits to the first half anymore.
Soooo...what I'm saying is, I wouldn't be posting this if I weren't happy with it. And it's as good as it's going to get given my retrograde technology. But it'll never be an editing accomplishment like "Jesus Walks".
Yeah. And, um, that's me bitching about how this video damn near killed me and reduced me to tears at least twice. Hi. Hopefully you won't all now think this vid is crappy before even seeing it!