First experience in video editing?

BishounenStalker · Post by **BishounenStalker** » Thu May 22, 2003 11:01 am

How old were you and what hardware/software (if any) did you use?

Mine.....

I was 10 years old, using Nickelodeon Director's Lab on a 386. The beginning of the end, I tell you >.>

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Thu May 22, 2003 11:06 am

I think I started in 10th grade, putting together a really crazy short clip for my English final project. It was a 1:07 60-something layer Flash animation that I stayed up until 4 AM to finish...

The students loved it because it did all kinds of crazy things, but I hated it because (1) the VCR we had to use had no pause button (and the thing had to be paused for them to read text) and (2) Cinepak compression totally fux0r3d the digital -> analog conversion.

Oh well. I still have that clip on my hard drive, if anybody cares.

EarthCurrent · Post by **EarthCurrent** » Thu May 22, 2003 11:11 am

I was 15 so...that would be...1989/90 (som'thin' like that), in High School and we had this funky machine with nifty little knobs that essentially provided for a "professional" grade 2 VCR method. I made some really crappy ski/snowboarding videos showing me and friends crashing into trees and rocks.

XenoDrake · Post by **XenoDrake** » Thu May 22, 2003 11:44 am

two years ago, or somewhere in the area of 4-6 months before i joined the org, i got inot AMVs and found WMM on my step moms computer. being clever i took all the AMVs i had and used them as footage, thats where The End IS Over came from. then i found the org, learned about stuff i didnt know before, and the rest is history.

~XenoDrake

Ashyukun · Post by **Ashyukun** » Thu May 22, 2003 11:45 am

1996- I was a junior in college. On a whim, some friends and I after listening to a few of our CDs a few too many times decided to try making an AMV to one of the songs. We hashed out the scenes for the guitar intro using two VCRs (I still have this tape someplace) one night. The next day, we found out about the school library having a computer specifically set up and aside for video editing. It was like a P200 with 96MB of memory and a couple of massive (8 GB, I believe) SCSI drives with Premiere 4 something on it (IIRC). One of the guys at the library (who ended up going to work doing digital effects in movies) taught me the basics of Premiere, and we finished up that first video (and the next 4 we made before school work got the best of us) on that machine. Though it shows its age, that first video is actually up on the 'Carrot here.

Lyrs · Post by **Lyrs** » Thu May 22, 2003 12:17 pm

I was ** working with gif files...i consider them very very small video files then. I still do. Making gif's are a simple way of getting the hang of animation.

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dokool · Post by **dokool** » Fri May 23, 2003 2:25 pm

Nickelodeon Director's Lab! *dies*

My first video projects were in-camera jobs... stop-motion claymation made possible by hitting the Record button twice really fast, then moving something, then doing it again.

In Summer '01, I went to SIG and took a 3-week Film class. There were three groups. One group did this really thoughtful project with the only MiniDV cam, that nobody ever got. Another group did a really stupid horror movie, that WAS funny, just inane. We did SIGumentary, the tale of a new camper who just wanted to change his schedule. I believe we got the only standing ovation of the three when it premiered.

During Winter '01-'02, I took my family's Hi8 video camera with me to a couple rehearsals for Joseph &... Dreamcoat, and taped some of the on-and-off stage hijinks. After the show ended, I took that footage and footage from Photo Call that my dad shot, capped it w/ ATI's software, and made my first MV in Video Studio to American HiFi's "Another Perfect Day." It was one of the coolest things ever to walk into the chorus room one day and see groups of people huddled around the studio iMacs (there are 10 of them), all watching my video.

Then, during Summer '02, I made my first AMV, and got my first MiniDV camera. It's all gone downhill from there.

Jebadia · Post by **Jebadia** » Fri May 23, 2003 2:28 pm

twas 3 years from now..with the trial version of premiere..a lousy mpeg fansub of EoE and Dragula (Hotrod Herman remix)

oh boy was that a fun 3 hours...

BishounenStalker · Post by **BishounenStalker** » Fri May 23, 2003 2:45 pm

dokool wrote:Nickelodeon Director's Lab! *dies*

Yes! Someone else remembers that thing! Those were the days. Pre-rendered footage, MIDI soundtracks, title screens made with Ghetto-action Microsoft Paint, tutorials courtesy of Melissa Joan Hart.... I still HAVE the damn thing buried around here somewhere....

The Icey One · Post by **The Icey One** » Fri May 23, 2003 4:05 pm

I believe i was twelve using gifs and a MP3.....on some crappy little editor...it sucked alot...but it was the first messing around with stuff i did. o.o