Ask the Vidder: ringwench
| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | Ask the Vidder: ringwench |
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| Interviewee: | ringwench |
| Date(s): | November 29, 2007 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | vidding, Supernatural |
| External Links: | interview is here; reference link; Wayback Machine link |
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ringwench was interviewed in 2007 for Supernatural Roundtable.
Some Excerpts
I've been vidding for a little over 5 years, I currently use Sony Vegas to make my videos (which I highly recommend), oh, and I am a complete and total beat-whore. I started out in Buffy fandom when, after madly consuming every vid I could find for months, I realized I just had to give it a shot. I had been looking for some kind of creative outlet to express my fannish love, and since I can't write fic to save my life, I decided to try my hand at vidding. I’ve loved it ever since.I made quite a few Buffy vids, but they were pretty awful, truth be told. I then moved on to Lost fandom for awhile, and, inspired by all of the amazing vidders I was meeting, I finally started to set higher standards for my own vidding and made it a point to try to improve. I got a better editing program, beat use became a necessity (instead of just a serendipitous thing that occasionally happened after dropping a clip on the timeline), song choice became more important, and I became eager to learn new effects.
Then Supernatural happened and promptly ate my brain. All of a sudden I had tons of vid ideas! I honestly could not ask for a better show to be my main vidding fandom. The gorgeous cinematography, delicious symbolism, subtext just begging to be explored, a multi-layered and complex main relationship, not to mention a ridiculously beautiful cast. It just doesn’t get any better than this.
I feel like after all these years, I'm finally beginning to find my voice as a vidder, and that's a good feeling.
Keyframing is used in vids to gradually achieve an effect over the course of a clip (or part of a clip). I use it most often in my own vidding for zooms and flashes, but you can keyframe pretty much any effect.Say you want a clip to slowly zoom in. If you just use a crop effect with no keyframing, you can only specify the final cropped size and there's no motion. However, if you use keyframes, you can set the size for specific points in the clip. For a simple zoom, you would just set size of first frame of the clip to normal, and the size of the last frame to the final cropped size and the editing software will automatically adjust the size of the frames in between to so you get a fluid transition from one size to the other. If you wanted to get more complicated and say vary the speed of the zoom mid clip to match the beat, you can just set a couple more keyframes somewhere in between.
For a flash, you would use a brightening effect over 3 keyframes, the first set to normal brightness, the middle one (generally matched up with a beat) to a higher brightness, and the last back to normal.