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!
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[personal profile] naye 2008-04-05 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Eeeeeeeeeee~! It's DONE!! So excited! Download faster, computer, download faster! *bounces*
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[personal profile] naye 2008-04-05 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee~! Watched it, and love it so, so much! I just want to go back and watch it again, because it makes me make funny little noises and smile and smile and then it gives me goosebumps, and it's all SO beautiful and SO heartbreaking and SO fantastically done! You truly are a genius at this, hon. ♥
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[identity profile] teh-bug.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
Oh wow. Very...wow. I love how everything thing matched up beautifully; lyrics, the beat, the tone, wow.

Transiberian Orchestra + SGA = FTW!


...Personally, my favorite song on that CD is Fate. :-)

[identity profile] ceteramisto.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
Wonderful vid. After watching the embedded version, I had to download it. A wonderful view of why I love Rodney so much.

[identity profile] mahaliem.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
I loved this! You did a brilliant job!

[identity profile] sinaida.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
Oh wow, this is beautiful and heartbreaking. And this song is perfect for a Rodney-Vid.

[identity profile] rinkufan.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
This was amazing - so well done!~

You rock

[identity profile] wolfdancer.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
This was so great. THanks.

[identity profile] hawkwings.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
That is gorgeous! Excellent storytelling, I loved the mix of older footage too, the transitions, the gradual shifting and two scenes in side by side - the whole vid has a lush epic feel.

[identity profile] jx-walker.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
This is sooo well done. Thank you for making it available to us.

[identity profile] tringasolitaria.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
*is stunned* Wow. That's one of the best vids I've ever seen. Amazingly well done, and very beautiful. :)

Wow,

[identity profile] belladonnaf66.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
That was seriously one of the best vids that I've seen. The smoothness of the music interfacing with the snippets of the episodes told such a heartbreaking story.

Lovely, and very well done technically as well.

[identity profile] shinigrace.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
very smooth and well put together. And just so sad. :hugs rodney plushie:

[identity profile] jadesfire.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
Oh wow. This is just brilliant. I feel I should be able to say something more constructive (or at least intelligent) than 'guh', but nope, I'm pretty much stuck there. This pushed all the right emotional and plotty buttons, and it really felt like a trip through Rodney's head.

Wonderful.

[identity profile] trystings.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 08:19 am (UTC)(link)
Great vid! Excellent job, the editing is brilliant.

[identity profile] watcher652.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 09:27 am (UTC)(link)
This is utterly amazing! And you say that you're new to vidding? Do you do something similiar in real life? You have such an eye for matching lyrics to video. Kudos that you can even remember just the right moment to use after 4 years of episodes, wow!

And you have a definite ending moment. So many videos I see are great but then the last moment just doesn't feel like an ending or it feels like the vid just stops because the music ended.

Do you know that David Hewlett is having a little contest in cross promoting SG1's "Ark of Truth" with his own movie, "A Dog's Breakfast"? You really should enter. Check it out here (http://www.adogsbreakfastmovie.com/content/view/157/35/) and here. (http://www.adogsbreakfastmovie.com/content/view/158/) His fans have set up a YouTube Group (http://www.youtube.com/group/barkoftruth) where the entries can be posted. He didn't post a deadline, though, so I don't know when he'll pick a winner.

LOVE IT

(Anonymous) 2008-04-06 10:34 am (UTC)(link)
Hi thank you for this. I simply love it and the song does illustrate Rodney, a soft core with a backbone which cannot be denied. I loved the way in which you illustrate Rodney's life.I haven't seen much of the fourth season but this does make me curious to see it very soon!

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[identity profile] kimberlyfdr.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 12:27 pm (UTC)(link)
This vid works very, very well! I love the journey from where Rodney started to where he ended up because (as I always tell people) the Rodney McKay we all met on SG1 is not who he is now. He's grown and changed and the journey has affected him greatly. This vid shows that amazingly well. Great job!
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[identity profile] ayiana.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 12:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow. Just ... wow. Vidding is so far out of the realm of my capabilities that I'm always stunned by them, but this took my breath away. Incredible work. All those sleepless hours paid of in a big way. Congratulations.
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[personal profile] catwalksalone 2008-04-06 01:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Meep. That made me shiver all over. Fantastic. Just a marvellous piece of work, you told the story incredibly well. Thank you for sharing it with us.

[identity profile] taiteilija.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh my god this is incredible. I watched the vid before reading your notes - you write you're new to vidding, which I can't believe since you not only tell this story so beautifully, the vid is also technically awesome. And the music. Ingenious. ♥

Well done!
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[identity profile] elissahra.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
This was amazing and the whole scenery and the music all together made me cry for poor, poor Rodney. This was brilliant, and I have saved it, because I am so going to watch it again.

[identity profile] patk.livejournal.com 2008-04-06 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
One word: breathtaking!

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