Vidder Profile Spotlight: Astartexx
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| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | Vidder Profile Spotlight: Astartexx |
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| Interviewee: | Astartexx (Astarte) |
| Date(s): | October 17, 2011 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | vidding |
| External Links: | interview is here, Archived version |
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Astartexx was interviewed in 2011 for Vidder Profile.
Some Excerpts
I vidded my favorite shows in my head long before I knew what vidding was. When I discovered my first The X Files fanvid my instant reaction was, 'Of course, people are doing this', followed by the thought, 'I want to do that too.' But the technical backlog seemed too daunting for me, so I watched these little 5MB vids that took twenty minutes to download, obsessively. I further investigated this whole vidding thing when I had a flat rate, and a friend pointed me toward Adobe Premiere 6.0. I opened the program took a look around for twenty minutes and then closed it dishearten for months. Although I kept an eye on all vidding guides I found. When I decided to try again I was in the Angel/Buffy fandom and had some clips on my hard drive. The result was Runaway - It was gloriously bad, but I remember the feeling of accomplishment I had, when I first watched scenes set to music I chose. When the timing of some cuts hit right, I was giddy. The thrill was great; all these possibilities, so when my vid was finished I instantly started the next one. Looking back I'm so happy I started out in the gold rush era; technology was changing constantly. People tried crazy stuff and I didn't feel the need to be perfect, all I had to do was try to be good.
In a few of my earliest vids I used really bad collages as titles, which didn't look any good once the shiny feel of a new vid wore off. Xandra giggles whenever she recalls them and I cringe, because she is right - they look completely ridiculous. I became cautious after that fiasco and kept my titles very simple. An overlay or crossfade is my usual way of doing them. They are very basic Photoshop results; I default to white/grey on black with a font that suits the feel of the vid or a crossfade into the title card. Everything else you might have seen in a video of mine -- pretty much everything animated or that looked like something out of After Effects -- was Xandra's doing.