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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!

Date: 2008-05-04 07:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gnine.livejournal.com
*blushes* Wow, thank you!

Third and fourth season truly do have a lot of stuff worth watching...well, at least if you're a Rodney and/or McShep fan ^_^

It's funny, I got into vids (at least the watching of them) thru anime..., go to enough cons and the vid competitions and it's hard not to! But I've only ever *made* vids for western fandoms...*shrug* I know what you mean, though, so many AMVs are just SO high quality. Though I think working with animated footage versus live-action does make for very different vids and effects.

Thank you so much for commenting, glad you liked it!

Date: 2008-05-04 07:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moriapolonius.livejournal.com
at least if you're a Rodney and/or McShep fan

I certainly don't mind! I guess I'll watch it during the holidays... Hm, SGA or Lost... Or the ton of new anime...

I think working with animated footage versus live-action does make for very different vids and effects

You're probably right. I'll see for myself (I did try to make an AMV but got discouraged when just preparing clips was taking me months) when I get to the point of doing more than just overlays/transitions. I think I'll go and watch your vid again now, just to learn how it should be done. XD

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