Vidder Weekly

The Vidder Weekly was a Livejournal newsletter with a focus of new music videos and vidding meta. It ran for nine issues and was replaced by par avion's veni-vidi-vids vidding newsletter.
==Issues 1==
===Article: Spotlight===
Issue: One / Article: Spotlight was published January 9, 2006 and can be found here.reference link. Among the meta discussed was Beat/Cutting/Clip Length: by obsessive24 who "posed a question about cutting to a trip-hop song, and the discussion took many turns, one of them toward fast cutting vs. slow cutting."vidding to drum machine tracks dated December 10th, 2005; reference link.			
===New Vids===
Issue: One / Article: New Vids was published January 12, 2006 and included "all videos posted (limit one vid per vidder per issue--which generally translates to the most recent vid posted) since January 1st, 2005." A copy can be found here.reference link.
===Meta===
Issue: One / Article: Meta aas published January 14, 2006 and "attempts to give a summary of questions and thoughts (meta) that've popped up in vidding fandom."
Starting Up
*Video Editing Resources (xf_fanfilm). "How to get started: Video Editing Resources"
*I have a question (caivouroslamb). "I'm new here and I was just wondering what is the best way to create a video of any sort."
*Buying a Mac (ghost_lingering). "what the hardware essentials are for video editing..."
*Recs for freeware/shareware editing programs (ophelias_lament).`editing programs that are free-to-try, freeware, shareware, etc. (Windows XP)
*Editing program recs (outonpyrrole).`recs for editing programs (Windows)
Ripping
*Tutorial: Ripping using DVD shrink (xf_fanfilm).`"An easy, step-by-step guide to ripping DVDs to begin making your music video."
*Tutorial: How to Rip and Encode a DVD (xf_fanfilm). "How to Rip and Encode a DVD Using XMPEG"
*frame rate and Adobe Premiere 6 (par_tay). 23.98 fps versus 29.97 fps, and mixing and matching framerates
*Newbie Needs Help (pinkmarshmello). how to get DVD source into WMM
*Converting from VOB to AVI or MPEG (bananners). ie. what you need to do after ripping the .vob from DVDs
*Avoiding Commentary and Foreign Language Tracks (ophelias_lament). How to avoid audio when ripping source from DVDs
*Audio and video (thirdblindmouse). "using MacTheRipper to rip DVD chapters for vidding, and they've always come out soundless [...] But now I want to get some clips with the original sound"
Troubleshooting: Windows Movie Maker
*Problems with WMM (mindlessdork). dragging clip to storyboard causes crash
*WMM help! (bethy_beth). collasped timeline in WMM
*First Songvid (trinity79). problems saving in WMM
Troubleshooting: Adobe Premiere Pro ~
*Simple Tutorial to Resize and Crop video in Adobe Premiere 7 or later (xf_fanfilm). "how to resize and crop video and clips in Adobe Premiere 7.0 or later"
Sound and Music ~
*iTunes mpeg4 >> mp3 (mindlessdork). question on converting iTunes to mp3s
*Audio Question followed by a "Motion" question in Adobe Premier (thestalkycop). the audio/video get out of sync
*Tutorial: Tips on choosing the right music for your video (xf_fanfilm). "Choosing the right music for your music video can take weeks. To simplify (or complicate) your decision, here is a list of criteria for your choice in music, and depending on your style, it may affect your overall mood, tone, and narration."
*cutting and synching (commodorified). "Ye Olde Lighting Tech's Guide To Cutting And Synching Footage"
*Avoiding Commentary and Foreign Language Tracks (ophelias_lament). How to avoid audio when ripping source from DVDs
*Audio and video (thirdblindmouse). "using MacTheRipper to rip DVD chapters for vidding, and they've always come out soundless [...] But now I want to get some clips with the original sound"
Vidding As A Process
*Thoughts on vidding (z_rayne) - I love vidding. I've come (relatively) recently to it as a form of creative expression; I've only been vidding for about seven years, while I've been writing since I was a child. As much as I love it, though, I always feel like I'm working at it through a handicap: like a blind painter or a deaf musician. Because my technical knowledge of music is...well, pretty minimal. (With good responses in the comments)
*vid structure and the process of vidding, revisited (heresluck) - Just about a year ago, sockkpuppett and I had a chat about vid structure and the process of vidding. Of course that was right in the middle of my vidding hiatus, so I couldn't really do anything with the insights I gained from that conversation. But apparently I retained it, despite not consciously remembering it, because yesterday, while working on the Serenity vid, I looked at how I was filling in the blanks and thought "I think Lum and I had a conversation about this at some point."
Special Effects
*Requesting assistance. (co_child013). masking in Adobe Premiere 6
Exporting for Web ~
*Adobe Premiere 6.5 - export size? (nicole_anell). compressing web-friendly file in Premiere
*compressing wmv (foxestacado). reducing filesize
*Joining or Fusing two .rm or .wmv files? (foxestacado). using Adobe Premiere Pro, for export
Releasing Vids on the Web ~
*Vid Download Poll (laurashapiro). "I want to get a feel for what viewers, and vidders, are looking for these days in terms of file size and file format. Hence, this poll."
*Temporary File-Sharing Services (xf_fanfilm). "A list of temporary file-sharing services"
*Tutorial: Making a Watermark (xf_fanfilm). "How to watermark your video clips"
Vid Searches ~
*Vidding question (vid recs) (linzeestyle).Looking for "good music videos to shows with very little action".
*Looking for Angel and Firefly/Serenity vids (sockkpuppett). "...if you have or know of a vidder who has done some of your favorite Angel and/or Firefly vids, will you please comment here with info?"
Misc. ~
*sdwolfpup last year made a series of vidlets-to-order, an Insane January Vidding Project (IJVP), to teach herself Final Cut Pro and some good meta arose from it. It's happening again this year, with multiple participants...
**sdwolfpup - IJVP #1: "Jesus Walks" (Braveheart)
**IJVP #2: "Head Over Feet" (Angel, Wes/Cor)
**IJVP #3: "Rain Come Down" (BSG)
**IJVP #4: "Not So Usual" (Firefly)
**IJVP #5: "Just A Toy" (BtVS),
**IJVP #6: "More" (Horatio Hoblower)
**pipsqueaky - IJVP #1: "The Moth" (Gone With the Wind)
**dualbunny - IJVP #1: "A Place In Time" (Doctor Who - 2005)
**IJVP #2: "Black Black Heart" (BtVS & AtS),
**f1renze - IAVP #1: "My Band" (AtS)
**IAVP #2: "Cold Cold Heart" (Angel/Lindsey)
**IAVP #3: "Love Is Nothing" (Fred/Gunn)
==Issue 2==
===Article: Spotlight===
Issue: Two / Article: Spotlight was published January 16, 2006 and focused on an essay written by heresluck: Notes On Narratives In A Vidding Context.reference link. The essay "attempts to define what 'narrative' means for a vidder, and in the process makes distinctions between narrative, argument, and lyric driven vid structures." The article can be read here. reference link.
===New Vids===
Issue: Two / Article: New Vids was published January 19, 2006 and can be read here. reference link.
===Meta===
Issue: Two / Article: Meta was published January 22, 2006 and can be read herereference link
Ripping ~ 
*DVD Ripping Tutorial -- DVD Shrink, TMPGEnc, Imago. by yunafire -DVD ripping tutorial with images/screecaps of the programs
*2 questions (obsessive24 - Question 2: Ripping clips for DVD quality video
Troubleshooting: Adobe Premiere Pro
*Question about masks (Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere) by tazey - "I'm trying to come up with what I think of as a gradient mask."
*Premiere 6.0 GUI problems: effects window won't enlarge (marycrawford) - Changing Video Effects and the Effects Controls window shape
Vidding As A Process ~ 
*Things Wot I Learned just_eunice -A commentary on process during the making of Running Down A Dream
*Remote Joint Vidding Questions by morgandawn- "It's a big bold Internet - global borders are shrinking. So how do you jointly vid when vidders are far apart geographically?"
Special Effects ~ 
*Question about masks (Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere) by tazey -"I'm trying to come up with what I think of as a gradient mask."
Exporting for Web ~ 
*2 questions by obsessive24 - Question 1: Program crashing with 200MB+ exports
Vid Review/Commentary ~ 
*The Scooby Road Closure Post - Part Un, Part Deux, Part Trois by sockkpuppett - Commentary on the vid album as a whole and on individual parts
*"There There" by Luminosity (Angel S5: Wesley, Illyria) by yhlee -Commentary on Music and Visuals and narrative
*"One Last Time" (dualbunny) by yhlee - Commentary on Music and lyrics, Visuals and moments, and with Other notes
 ~ Misc. ~ 
*sdwolfpup last year made a series of vidlets-to-order, an Insane January Vidding Project (IJVP), to teach herself Final Cut Pro and some good meta arose from it. It's happening again this year, with multiple participants...IJVP's from the first week
**IJVP #7: "Sing For Absolution" (Angel)
**IJVP #8: "If You Were Here" (Farscape)
**IJVP #9: "Orbiting Jupiter" (BSG)
**IJVP #10: "Thank You For The Music" (Buffy)
**IJVP #11: "Something Stupid" (Firefly)
**IJVP #12: "The Sun Always Shines On TV" (Doctor Who)
**IJVP #13: "Completely" (Angel)
**IJVP #14: "Time" (BSG)
*IJVP #2: "Steal My Sunshine" (Finding Nemo) by pipsqueaky
*IJVP #3: "The Christmas Song" (The Spitfire Girl) by dualbunny
*Summary post of entire Insane Angel Vidding Project (12 vidlets) by f1renze
==Issue Three==
===Article: Spotlight===
Issue: Three / Article: Spotlight was published January 23, 2006 and can be read here. reference link. Topic: On Effect Usage: sdwolfpup has questions on when to use effects. reference link.
===Article: New Vids===
Issue: Three / Article: New Vids was published January 28, 2006 and can be read here. reference link.
===Meta===
Issue: Three / Article: Meta was published January 30, 2006 and can be read here. reference link.
~ General Tutorials ~ 
*My Video Problems: Tutorials -Some of them are general ones, others are written for specific areas or programmes, such as Microsoft Movie Maker.
*DV in Education: Downloads - iMovie 3 Tutorial
*Making AMV's with iMovie (by Dennis 'Kirin' Ramos) - If you're one of those people living in the 10 percent of the computer world, like myself, then you'd probably know that the software we use works a little differently compared to people living in the Windows-based world. But differences aside, there are ways of getting things done on a Mac ... sometimes, it just requires a different way of thinking.
name="cutid1-end"
Troubleshooting: Adobe Premiere Pro ~ 
*Premiere Pro question by melibabe - "What are the best settings to use for a new project that will use episode .avis and .mp3 files?"
Troubleshooting: General Mac ~ 
*.AVI Files on a Macintosh? by mirnell - "I have been trying to play .avi file vids on my computer, and although I now have video, I still have no sound."
*program advice by jmtorres- "I have all these lovely, lovely divx avi's from the internet that look absolutely wretched when I convert them to DV for iMovie. What applications are there out there that would let me vid with the avi's? Or at least with movs in my choice of codec?"
*AVI to anything else by jackiekjono- "How to transfer .avi files to a different format on a Mac"
 ~ Troubleshooting: MPEGStreamclip ~
*MPEG Streamclip 1.5.1 by foomatic- "There are certain VOB files that I've tried to convert to DV files using MPEG Streamclip, but when I open the file in the program, the video is pixelated."
*MPEGStreamclip and aspect ratio for FCE by yhlee - "Thoughts on MPSC settings, at least aspect ratio."
*Mac Vidders: What To Do With Those AVI Files? by morgandawn-
"MPEGStreamclip 1.5 has added the ability to grab a DiVx avi file, snip a small clip, and then export it into a format that either IMovie or FCE/FCP can read."
 ~ Troubleshooting: iMovie ~ 
*Converting clips for iMovie by violette-b- "I'm trying to make a fanvid using iMovie. I have all the clips in .wmv format, but I need to convert them into .avi or whichever file types will work on iMovie."
*iMovie clips by catch-me-first - "I want to be able to use the clips I've cut in other projects, but whenever I try to copy one of the cut clips and paste it into a new project (or a folder on the computer) it pastes the entire thing"
 ~ Troubleshooting: Final Cut Express ~
*Trouble cropping in Final Cut Express by drgnfille - "In FCE, I apply the desired croppage via the Motion tab, and it *is* applied, but it won't output the footage as cropped, even when I render the video."
 ~ Vidding As A Process ~ 
*Feedback 1/3: Boom. (also Intention, Audience and Why Vid discussion) by absolutedestiny' - "This particular [feedback] will also debate some of the issues raised by the vid - namely those of the authorial intention of vidders, the importance of context, the relationship between vid and audience, the question of why different people vid and more!"
 ~ Special Effects ~ 
*Apple iMovie - Plugins for Apple iMovie
free iMovie Plugins
*Free iMovie Plugins
free iMovie Plugins
*GeeThree iMovie plugins
 ~ Exporting/Encoding ~ 
*ffmpegX - a DVD, SVCD, VCD, CVD, VOB, DivX, XviD, H.264, PSP, iPod, MP4, MOV encoder for Mac OSX
*Exporting to Avi by barkley - "I wrote up my process for exporting my vids to .avi"
*Quicktime Pro/iMovie exporting problems by maka2000 - Exporting into a Windows-compatible .avi
*Web video by smutcutter - "I am working on a website and I need to export from FCP for it."
 ~ Vid Review/Commentary ~ 
*Concrit/commentary on whereistheluv's Sway (Veronica Mars S1; season spoilers)
==References==
Category:Vidding
Category:2005
Category:2006