Vexercises 3.0

[nu_breed]

Hello Vexercise folks old & new! Lola and I have been discussing getting a new round going for Spring and we have decided that now is the time for Vexercises 3.0!

This round will consist of seven vexercises, including the free vid, with two weeks to complete each one (technically! Please see below regarding our “due dates” policy) There will be a choice for most of the rounds, generally drawing on the O.G/2.0 Vexercises with some tweaks here and there.

Logistics:
 
The way this works is: We drop a vexercise every two weeks on Sunday, with some explanation around it and examples. Feel free to ask questions or to share examples of vids that are in the vein of a particular challenge, or relevant resources in that post. We want this to be a collaborative space :)

A week later on the Saturday we'll make a check in post to see how everyone is doing. And the following Saturday, the vexercise will be "due." Then, the next day (Sunday) we'll drop the next vexercise, and follow the same two-week cycle!

Quick note on due dates and rules:
 
Due dates are always as firm or as flexible as you need them to be for your creative process and/or RL schedule. And that goes for pretty much anything re: the vexercises, including the "rules" of each vexercise, even the one minute length. You can take them as iron clad if that helps you, or you can approach them as more flexible guidelines if you'd rather.

We’ll be dropping the first vexercise next Sunday May 29th, which means it will be "due" on Saturday June 11th with the next one dropping June 12th. For now, please feel free to introduce yourself in the comments and let us know what source you might be wanting to play with (if you have decided! If not, feel free just to say hi or ask any questions you might have!)

Comments

[bluedreaming]

I played around with some vidding several years ago (I think I was using movavi, after switching from windows movie maker) after my sibling got into it. They were making a few fanvids for kpop/jrock songs that didn’t have mvs. (I think some are still up actually, YouTube says that was thirteen years ago, huh.) I did a few things when modding a fest and some other stuff (r.i.p. vine), but computer stuff happened and so I haven’t had any video editing software installed for years. I’ve been meaning to get back into it, and have a YouTube playlist of source stuff that I’ve been saving for over a year, but intertia is strong! Just yesterday though, I had to figure how to use shotcut for basic editing at work. That, in tandem with getting this post alert, and the fact that this round coincides with the end of voiceteam (and the fun energy that comes out of that) will hopefully be the nudge I need to actually get back into it.

I’ve been wanting to use ENHYPEN mvs as a core for a vid ever since they debuted, but also recently got into the Thai drama Something in my Room and have all that source now, so I hope to work with those too.

I was thinking of using shotcut since it’s free and open source and seems like it’ll run okay on my pretty old laptop (Windows 10, 8 GB RAM, i7 2.0 GHz CPU, nvidia GeForce GTX 560M graphics chip), but if there is any other software someone would recommend I’m all ears! (The number of choices are a little overwhelming.)

[nu_breed]

Hi there and welcome! I am not super familiar with a bunch of software, I use Premiere Pro and have just started teaching myself Da Vinci and I think both of these are pretty big CPU hogs but perhaps someone else has suggestions for a more low-intensive editing program?

We are planning on putting a tech post together to chat about this stuff sometime before next Sunday so hopefully people will have some suggestions that might help!

[bluedreaming]

Thanks! A tech post sounds like it would be great.