gnine: (SGA Rodney guilt)
gnine ([personal profile] gnine) wrote2008-04-06 05:23 am
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"The years and the hours, the seconds and minutes..."

So, here we are again, with another music vid (SGA again) to offer. One that ATE MY SOUL. Nomnomnomnommmm. Mmm, apparently quite tasty! Who knew? Well, other than almost every fandom I've been in…ah well.

Vid info, download links and an extensive, rambling vidder's note

Title: What is Eternal?
Song: from Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Beethoven's Last Night
Character: Rodney…oh, OOohhh Rodney
Category: episode-related (Last Man), angst, and does Rodney McKay count as its own category?
Spoilers: Yes, yes and very much YES. All of the show, particularly "The Last Man". Will probably make very little sense if you *haven't* seen season four, so don't watch if you have yet to be shown it, this means YOU, [livejournal.com profile] utopiantrunks! *cough* ^_-
Size: ~56 MB
Format: .avi
Notes: Vidder's note on just what addled thoughts were passing through my brain as this vid sucked hours, days, WEEKS from my life, can be found after the download links.

Links:

Youtube
Sendspace
Megaupload

Song lyrics can be found here.

Or just watch it here:



Vidder's Notes:

So, I first got obsessed with Beethoven's Last Night several weeks before "The Last Man" aired, and at the time, I recall thinking, hmm, "What Is Eternal" could make a fun SGA vid. Maybe a Rodney piece, maybe the whole team, whatever. With no clear ideas jumping out at me, I put it on the back burner to stew for a bit. Then they gave us the season finale and it was OMG must do this vid NOW. Rodney, oh Rodney, so, SO perfect.

And thus began several weeks of semi-permanent exhaustion. Because, beyond eating my soul, this vid also devoured most of the hours I should have been doing useful things, like say, oh, SLEEPING. But, totally worth it. 'Cause…well, Rodney!

Still being kinda new to this whole vidding 'thang, I used this opportunity to test some new techniques. Like the image matte keying feature, which opens all kinds of new doors. (Coincidentally, I also discovered my computer reeealllly doesn't like having both Photoshop and Premiere open at the same time :-p) I hope what I was trying to accomplish comes through in the end…and that I didn't clutter up the video too much. :-p



As always, I'd very much like to know what people think (truthfully, with all the hours, and amount of SOUL this has eaten up, it's more like 'incredibly anxious to know" :-p), C & C is tremendously welcome!

[identity profile] shadowandmist.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
This is such an amazing vid, there is so much work in it, and it works so very well. Beautiful. Just beautiful.

[identity profile] boniblithe.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I enjoyed this very much :D
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[personal profile] danceswithgary 2008-04-06 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I've just recently begun devouring McShep and watching SGA, but this still brought tears to my eyes. What a powerful piece you've created!
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[identity profile] rawa-02.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Well that made me cry. Saved for rewatchings.
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[identity profile] goss.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, that was lovely. Perfect. :)
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[identity profile] elandrialore.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, just....I have no words. I kept getting interrupted so I didn't think it wouldn't continue to be that powerful the whole way through but it really was.

I'll be downloading this the first chance I get.
Bravo!
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[identity profile] nakedwesley.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG! So amazing! This is perfect for the Last Man and Rodney. Great job on the cuts and clip choices. That ending is just....WOW!! Totally downloading to watch again...and again.

[identity profile] iolandasblog.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
This was WOW and amazong and all the wonderful things the previous posters stated.

Thank you for this vid!

It is among the best Vids I've ever seen and fore sure the best one I know which is focussing on Rodney and TLM, showing the main aspects which make this character so loveable.

Thank you again.

[identity profile] mukanshin.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh wow. That was...powerful. Really the only word that comes to mind. Powerful. The editing was absolutely gorgeously done and the song was perfect and just, WoW. I truly loved it. <3

[identity profile] shayera.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you have any idea how awesome this vid is? I got shivers watching it. The lyrics and the music, and the way the clips fit with it all... You are a genius. ^___^

[identity profile] graffitiegg.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Gahhhh brilliant! I've watched it five times through, and there's still always something that amazes me upon each viewing.

[identity profile] zeixx.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Omigod! The shots you used, the music, how did you get them to match up so perfectly?! The cuts, the fading scenes all overlapping, the switches from happy scenes to empty Atlantis and lonely Rodney! "Contemplating treason", and the instrumental bit in the middle, and oh! Present day Atlantis switching to future Atlantis, I loved that sort of dissolve-y thing you did! This was excellent, really, truly, wonderful to watch!

[identity profile] libra-traveller.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
That was amazing. It was touching and attention grabbing, I adore it.

[identity profile] argosy.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh that was AMAZING. Oh, RODNEY. Perfect choice of clips to music, perfect use of effects, but not too much. Really great. ♥!

[identity profile] loligo.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow! I love the way that this brings out the grand, epic, over-the-top aspects of SGA and doesn't let you look away. Angsty and painful in the best possible way *g*.

[identity profile] taibhrigh.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
wow!! awesomely done!!

[identity profile] taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com 2008-04-07 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
I thought you did an excellent job! I really enjoyed the video, and I thought the music was a wonderful choice to go with it. I didn't find it cluttered, and the special effects worked very well, I thought. I'm definitely keeping this one, thank you!

Would it be possible to have a copy of the song, as well? If you would be so kind, I would dearly love it if you could send it to me at simple.carbohydrates AT gmail DOT com. That would be absolutely wonderful of you. :D
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[personal profile] sholio 2008-04-07 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
This is just *such* an incredible vid, honestly one of the best vids in this fandom I've ever seen. No matter how many times I watch it, the montage at the end brings tears to my eyes. I'm sorry I never got back to you with more comments last week, but, er ... you can't improve on perfection, and that's what this is! As far as I'm concerned, this is *the* definitive Rodney vid; I'm not normally a big fan of the use of f/x in vids, but the way you've done it here is just so gorgeously integrated with the meaning of the vid and the pacing of the song -- I'm in awe! Amazing, simply amazing. Someone already beat me to reccing this on [livejournal.com profile] stargategenrec, but it definitely deserves to be rec'd far and wide.

[identity profile] epicycles.livejournal.com 2008-04-07 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
Holy Toledo! That was *awesome*! The song took me a bit by surprise -- I was expecting an instrumental -- but it fit, it just FIT, so perfectly, to everything Rodney been through and seen and done and *loses coherence*. What I mean is, I loved it! Favorite bits: Miller's Crossing to "traded his soul", his team as the scale he's weighed against, the montage at the end, and oh, oh the Ode to Joy!

So what I mean is: thanks. *goes to watch again (for third time)*

[identity profile] phantmchic.livejournal.com 2008-04-07 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
Wow! I think this the best vid I've ever seen. It's just...Art. The matching of music/lyrics with the images and the editing are just gorgeous.

[identity profile] alia-eternal.livejournal.com 2008-04-07 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
I am simply lost for words by the sheer genius of this video. I love how the story develops so clearly. My favorite part was every time the song mentions sins we see in the background events from the past. Not seen that in a video before but it was a really good technique and really helped with the message of the video. I also liked how you incorporated clips from SG1, showing the development of Rodney when the song referred to the character’s life. This is hands down the best fan video I’ve seen and I’ve watched more than my fair share. I’m downloading it for keeps. You rock.

[identity profile] quasar273.livejournal.com 2008-04-07 11:02 am (UTC)(link)
This is excellent. I love the textures, the layered images, the shifting between monochrome and full color. Will have to watch a few dozen more times to get the full effect, but I'm very impressed!

[identity profile] wanted-a-pony.livejournal.com 2008-04-07 11:14 am (UTC)(link)
Wow. This is the first fanvid I've watched & I think you've ruined me for the genre. Amazing, just amazing....

Great!

(Anonymous) 2008-04-07 11:38 am (UTC)(link)
Wow, I really love this video! It's a great Rodney-Video and also a great video of "Last Man"!!!! Especially the last 1 - 1 1/2 Minutes are really, really great!

I love the scene, when you replaced Atlantis, which is rising from the ocean, with the Atlantis in the desert! That looked very, very good! And also, when you put Atlantis in the front and in the background we can see some scene's of the daily life on Atlantis: Awesome!

Every time I watch the video, I find some more great things...

Thank you very much for this Video!

Saphira

[identity profile] takadainmate.livejournal.com 2008-04-07 01:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh dammit! I'm at work so I can't watch, bit I definitely will later! Also, ZOMG ICON SNAP!

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