What is the hardest 5 seconds of footage you've worked on?

Leanan · Post by **Leanan** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 12:49 am

Probably that dvd menu thing I made. I capped the menu from the original Chobits dvd, then used psp to fill in areas and create the Video Girl Chii logo on it. I'm sure there was a simpler way, but I created 4 bmps for the background. Then I used several white bmps with the transform effect to go underneath the menu select scenes (to show when they were being selected), and several scenes of video over them running with the transform effect. Pretty simple. The hardest part was previewing it. It seemed to take forever just to view any changes. Urgh.

I think the easiest thing was putting my Chobits scenes inside the tv and computer with the Video Girl Ai static weaving in and out. That was a very simple video.

I think I'm ready to branch out and try some harder things o.o

Actually the things that took up a lot of time were effects/things I tried that didn't make it in the video.

Hitori · Post by **Hitori** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 1:23 am

This new effect I'm trying to perfect in my masters/pro video for AWA that never got completed...

valssj4 · Post by **valssj4** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 6:42 am

there are not only 5 secs that are difficult on a vid,ut allth vid itself,i think....
for me is so;in all my vids there is a lot of work.yeah,maybe the firsts i've done aren't pretty as the latest,but the quantity of the work it's the same...what is different is the experience

cleo3930 · Post by **cleo3930** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 6:58 am

Hardest ~5 seconds so far (just because it was so time-consuming): this portion near the end of my "Second Chance" video where I took parts from 2 scenes, composed 2 new scenes in Photoshop, and faded back and forth between them while zooming in at the end of it.

dwchang · Post by **dwchang** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 5:51 pm

Vlad G Pohnert wrote:Actually, it wasn't 5 seconds for me... More like about 4:00 minutes for Tanscending love... And did I learn my lesson, no.. so I did it again for my DDR4 project track....

Vlad

Aren't you old people supposed to be wiser or something and not do stupid things over and over again

/me runs away

Org Profile · Post by **Vlad G Pohnert** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 10:50 pm

dwchang wrote:
Vlad G Pohnert wrote:Actually, it wasn't 5 seconds for me... More like about 4:00 minutes for Tanscending love... And did I learn my lesson, no.. so I did it again for my DDR4 project track....

Vlad
Aren't you old people supposed to be wiser or something and not do stupid things over and over again

/me runs away

Atleast us "old" people can actually do thease thing

Vlad

Hitori · Post by **Hitori** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 11:15 pm

Vlad G Pohnert wrote:
dwchang wrote: Aren't you old people supposed to be wiser or something and not do stupid things over and over again

/me runs away
Atleast us "old" people can actually do thease thing

Vlad

Well.. You're not that old...

Mr Pilkington · Post by **Mr Pilkington** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 11:16 pm

Old is such a harsh term. Why not nostalgic?
Me personally, I use the term r463¡ng n00b or wussy when referring to myself.

Hardest 5 seconds for me?
The entire intro sequence for Nabeshin's No Escape. I used a total of 4 video programs, had export and import said project more times than I would dare to admit, then had to capture the vocals and edit the audio so that the Music and Sound FX weren't as apparent... I could go on for days. All this for less than 30 seconds of footage.

Hitori · Post by **Hitori** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 11:22 pm

Mr Pilkington wrote:Old is such a harsh term. Why not nostalgic?

Or maybe.. More experienced?

Mr Pilkington · Post by **Mr Pilkington** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 11:40 pm

Hitori wrote:
Mr Pilkington wrote:Old is such a harsh term. Why not nostalgic?
Or maybe.. More experienced?

Yeah, that too...
Basically anything the opposite of Mr. Pilkington.