To talk a little more about the process, most of what I did was figure out how Filmora worked, partly by watching about half of an instructional video, and partly by trial-and-error. It was interesting how much I had to forget from using RipEditBurn and VideoReDo (what human factors people call "negative transference"), but once I got the hang of it, I found Filmora's interface easier to use and more precise. Mostly. Clipping music is definitely easier than with REB, but VRD does it by frame rather than second, so I found that odd. But I got used to it. (REB is audio-only, and VRD doesn't allow you to add a soundtrack, which is why I needed a different program for vidding.)
I initially thought I could cut out the clips I wanted using the window above and drag them down onto the timeline, but I couldn't do it, and that's when I watched the instructional video to find out how the software actually works. The one thing I still don't have the hang of is what to do with the leftover bits of episode after clipping out a piece - sometimes I just deleted them and reloaded the episode from the media box into the timeline to get the next clip (I can tell when I did that, because I kept forgetting to detach the audio; I finally gave up and did that at the end); other times I pushed them a few seconds away from the video draft so I could poke through them for more scenes, and when I made the next cut, I would yeet the intervening material up onto another line. Navigating back to the draft once I made the cut was tricky, and I still think this is not the easiest way to do it. I was SOOOO tempted to open VideoReDo, make the cuts in that, save the files and re-import them, but that would have felt like cheating. Plus VRD would have remuxed the files and they would have lost some quality.
I only downloaded four episodes, and one of them didn't have what I was looking for, but I managed to find the kind of thing I was looking for and string some clips together. The hardest part, creatively, was figuring out what I wanted and how to find something close to it in a limited source. I had downloaded episodes more or less at random and by great good fortune one of them began with a guy speaking over a radio, which I wanted, and this show pretty much *always* features trucks and jeeps careening over the landscape. Having a limited source also meant that I didn't spend hours scrubbing through footage for *just the right moment*, which I could totally have seen myself doing otherwise, and I just don't have the time. So that was good!
The six-second limit was very interesting to work with. I found myself trying to cut very carefully to make the scenes fit logically, and there were several scenes I decided against because they cut away to something irrelevant after 4 or 5 seconds. There was still a stray cut near the end of one of the clips where Dietrich picks up his binoculars again, but I was too tired to go back and see if I could start cutting the scene a second earlier.
Finally, I picked the second song mostly because it references the Sahara, and partly because I wanted a sharp contract to the first song, but there were some surprising congruences between the lyrics and the images that made me really happy. It looks like a Troy/Dietrich vid, at least for about the first half. I initially planned to use the refrain, but the second half of the first verse seemed to work a lot better.
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Date: 2021-03-25 02:56 am (UTC)I initially thought I could cut out the clips I wanted using the window above and drag them down onto the timeline, but I couldn't do it, and that's when I watched the instructional video to find out how the software actually works. The one thing I still don't have the hang of is what to do with the leftover bits of episode after clipping out a piece - sometimes I just deleted them and reloaded the episode from the media box into the timeline to get the next clip (I can tell when I did that, because I kept forgetting to detach the audio; I finally gave up and did that at the end); other times I pushed them a few seconds away from the video draft so I could poke through them for more scenes, and when I made the next cut, I would yeet the intervening material up onto another line. Navigating back to the draft once I made the cut was tricky, and I still think this is not the easiest way to do it. I was SOOOO tempted to open VideoReDo, make the cuts in that, save the files and re-import them, but that would have felt like cheating. Plus VRD would have remuxed the files and they would have lost some quality.
I only downloaded four episodes, and one of them didn't have what I was looking for, but I managed to find the kind of thing I was looking for and string some clips together. The hardest part, creatively, was figuring out what I wanted and how to find something close to it in a limited source. I had downloaded episodes more or less at random and by great good fortune one of them began with a guy speaking over a radio, which I wanted, and this show pretty much *always* features trucks and jeeps careening over the landscape. Having a limited source also meant that I didn't spend hours scrubbing through footage for *just the right moment*, which I could totally have seen myself doing otherwise, and I just don't have the time. So that was good!
The six-second limit was very interesting to work with. I found myself trying to cut very carefully to make the scenes fit logically, and there were several scenes I decided against because they cut away to something irrelevant after 4 or 5 seconds. There was still a stray cut near the end of one of the clips where Dietrich picks up his binoculars again, but I was too tired to go back and see if I could start cutting the scene a second earlier.
Finally, I picked the second song mostly because it references the Sahara, and partly because I wanted a sharp contract to the first song, but there were some surprising congruences between the lyrics and the images that made me really happy. It looks like a Troy/Dietrich vid, at least for about the first half. I initially planned to use the refrain, but the second half of the first verse seemed to work a lot better.