"The years and the hours, the seconds and minutes..."

[gnine]

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, 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!

Comments

[mukanshin.livejournal.com]

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

[gnine.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it! Doesn't the song just fit Rodney so perfectly, the song just screamed to me *RODNEY* when I first heard it! ^_^

[mukanshin.livejournal.com]

Oh god yes, it is perfectly suited for Rodney and a really beautiful song besides. I really must give props once again for the editing. I loved the fad-ishy bits. Favourite being the part where Rodney's working on the eraser board and they matched so wonderfully with the lyrics and the switch between Atlantis today and the one in the future all desert, deserted and desolate. Just beautiful. And an added, forgotten previously, thank you for having the vid up for download and not only on youtube. My winamp and me are deliriously happy. <33

[gnine.livejournal.com]

*blushes* Thanks!

I have waaaaay to much fun doing fades when working on vids. And for this vid, in particular, I learned a new, more versatile way of doing it and I might have gone just whee bit over board with it. Glad it works for you! ^_^ And I'll admit, the fade between present Atlantis and the desert one is one of my favorite parts in the whole vid ^_^

And your welcome for the d/l links, my sister and I always prefer to get vids that way, so...I try to make it as convenient for everyone else as possible ^_^

Thank you so so much for your comments, they made my day! ^_^