Vexercise 1 Check In (2021 edition!)

[lola]

Hi all! Here we are, it's been one week in--how are your pechakuchas going?

So many have been posted already, I'm kind of amazed!! For those of you that have already dived (dove?) in, what was the experience like? How did you go through the process of narrowing down your visual source, choosing your clips, choosing your music? Any tech issues or other challenges you ran into?

For those of you who haven't yet started (um, this includes me) where are you at with it? Do you have some things you're still trying to decide on--like focus, etc? I'm working with a new source and haven't yet decided on which eps I'm going to use, I might just mess around and see what feels interesting!

Comments

[scytale]

Oh, this is really interesting to read through! I appreciate the notes on your process.

I tend to then scrub through my source, marking times for possible clips in a text file. I'll open my editor and have the list to refer back to and then trim.

I like this idea, and I may have to try this next time.

[actiaslunaris]

I hope it works for you! It's nice to have all the timings together because it works well with a non-linear editor, which I got used to because I started out vidding with Windows Movie Maker and then moved on to an editor that was bundled with a cd burner I bought (an early version of Corel Video Studio, though I keep trying to learn Vegas Pro). Shuffling around clips I can trim in or out at will is very freeing.

[scytale]

Thank you! I've been clipping and saving as separate files, which works to a point, except that I'm terrible at naming and organizing things and I can never put enough context in the filename. Especially since the most important thing to remember about the clip may not actually be what the clip is about.

Writing things down seems like a good way around that, since there's no limit to the amount of information I can put down, and I'm excited to try it. :)