Vexercise 3 Check In

[lola]

 Hi folks! How is Vexercise 3 treating you? Are you trying the rhythmic editing, the sound editing, or both? Run into any questions/issues/confusions/fun discoveries? Found any inspirational videos or tutorials to share? 

Also, there've been a couple questions about process, specifically about whether people are making subclips, using pancake timelines, or just scrubbing through episodes. What have you been doing so far with the vexercises in terms of clip prep? What's been working for you? (or not working for you? :D) 

Comments

[naye]

I started vidding with clips I'd made for giffing, which I'd named so I'd recognize the scenes at a glance - this is for a canon I knew inside out, so the episode number + "kitchen scene" would've given me plenty of information. I've kept this up with character names (abbreviated) + keywords in the clip names, which means I can search for them.

But as of this Vexercise I decided pancake timelines were probably going to be more useful and switched to that method and - it was a steep learning curve, and I don't think I'm all the way there yet, but it makes a huge difference when I'm working with a source I don't know by heart. It also helps find those scenes where people are moving left and right, or shot from above, or other things I would never have thought to include in the clip names. And I quite enjoy the meticulous work of cutting up my clips and sorting them into the different sequences - it's a good way of getting to know a source from a vidding perspective.

I'm super keen to learn more about all the different ways people work, because there's so much useful information I have yet to pick up!

[allheadybooks]

Man, I really tried the pancake timeline thing (in Premiere) and could not really wrap my brain around it. Now I just name my clips with keyword strings covering most things I would want to search for, then sort them into bins covering about 40-60 minutes of source (one TV episode or a section of a film). I wonder if my method works better for people who like to tag comprehensively, and pancake timeline works better for people who identify clips more visually?