SGA Rodney vid: Dare You to Move

[sholio]

Title: Dare You to Move
Artist: Switchfoot
Genre: Character study, angst, episode-related
Spoilers: Trinity, McKay & Mrs. Miller
File type: WMV or Mp4, zipped
Summary: A Rodney-centric video about getting up and moving forward after making a mistake. Sometimes you have to risk it all to gain it all.

This is my first video edited in iMovie. While it's infinitely preferable to trying to do it in my old program (which was ten years old and feeling every minute of it), one thing that still drives me nuts about iMovie is that there's only one video editing track. In Premiere, I used to jump around a lot while I was editing a vid, using different tracks to keep my clips separate. Since iMovie only gives you one track, you can get everything all synced up, and then swap or resize a clip earlier in the timeline and knock the entire rest of your video out of sync. AAARGH...

Anyway, hopefully using iMovie will help fix some of the past problems with my vids, like the jerkiness that people mentioned. Let me know if you have any technical problems and I'll try to fix them.

EDIT: Links to vid temporarily down

Comments

[with-apostrophe.livejournal.com]

Wow you can see the tumbleweeds a-blowin' past on Saturdays at LJ! Where did everybody go?

Is there anything you don't do? You write fantastically, you do Photoshopping (I'm using that as a generic verb), you DRAW (and I won't begin to tell you how that makes me jealous) and you vid (again). What's next? Song-writing? A souzaphone symphony in four movements detailing the relationship between our favourite four mis-adventurers? Do you also make a mean souffle? When do you sleep?

*Grins at you*

A great bunch of clips you got there. I was entranced by the gorgeous ones of Atlantis at the beginning - which eps are they from?

This may sound bizzare - but what I got from this vid was a fresh realisation of just how good our actors can be. You really did pick some fantastic moments there- and not just for David...

Quick question - were the clips supposed to be running at a slightly higher speed than normal - or is that a tech prob? (I watched the large wmv, using the latest Windows Media Player and the ten million extra codecs (codeci?) I picked up this week)

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

*grin* I live in ALASKA! There's nothing else to DO! Actually, you can rest assured that I have no musical talent whatsoever. Can't carry a tune in a bucket and wouldn't recognize a treble clef if one assaulted me in a dark alley.

I was entranced by the gorgeous ones of Atlantis at the beginning - which eps are they from?

That's from "Return part 2". They're the only clips in the vid that aren't from one of the two episodes I was profiling, but it was just such an absolutely lovely pan shot of the city that I really wanted to use it.

And thank you for the comments. I actually know just what you mean about appreciating the actors -- actually, one reason why I like songvids (both watching and making them) is because seeing the video without the voices helps drive home how *good* the actors are at expressing things non-verbally. They really do have a wonderful cast on this show.

were the clips supposed to be running at a slightly higher speed than normal - or is that a tech prob?

Er ... it's not intentional. I don't get it on my playback, either. Does the audio go faster than normal also?