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

[extrapenguin]

Some stuff that might be useful as someone who has Been There (last year):

- Pechakuchas sort of limit out a lot of the "easy" ways to make a vid snazzier, so don't be too hard on yourself on this!
- As someone who also clips from the episode in the video editor, I generally go through the whole episode at once and clip all the bits I might potentially need, then stuff those at a few minutes further down the timeline to pull in as needed before deleting the rest.
- Video editors generally have a way to make the clips longer/shorter. Try right-clicking and seeing if there's an option akin to "edit duration", or simply dragging the edge one way or another (in a direction in which there's room).

I hope that helps!

[amedia]

Oh, this is super helpful! Thank you so much for sharing your experience—this is one of the things I absolutely love about fandom is how supportive people are.

Clipping the bits in advance sounds like it be a lot easier—I’m definitely going to try that on the next one. 💖

[lola]

Yes, I absolutely want to echo--in some ways the pechakucha is designed to make the actual act of editing easy--as in, you only need to worry about getting ten clips on the timeline. But a lot of what makes a vid look like a vid involves much smaller clips than six seconds, cutting out all the extraneous stuff, playing with speed of clip/shot duration. But none of that is part of the pechakucha, since it's basically taking one step at a time.

The six second restriction is gone after the pechakuchas, so I think you'll find that a bit more satisfying. That said, the limits in pechakuchas can be freeing (only so much you can worry about), and then when people come back to do them after having made other videos, there can be a sort of new challenge of how can it look more like a vid despite the restrictions. But for your first pechakucha, it's really just about filling that timeline, setting it to music, so you've made a thing!!

I often make pechakuchas that I'm just *dying* to go back in and edit more, breaking the six second limit... and sometimes after the fact I do, and turn it into something more truly vid like :D

[amedia]

I liked the simplicity of the ten clips of six seconds each--it definitely cut down on the decision-making, to say nothing of the work! In that sense, I think the word "freeing" is absolutely right.

so you've made a thing!!

Once I got past the brief freakout, I found myself actually quite pleased and happy with the final result. :-) I made a thing!!! Wheee! And now I want to make more things!