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Out of curiosity, how do you get your clips? I used to use my digital camera, but there were always fuzzy lines which aggravated me. Glad to hear you had fun making the video, I always get stressed and end up yelling

I use ADS DVD Express. I bought it at Walmart for $80. It a peripheral that hooks up to a USB port. It allows you to hook up ANY VCR/DVD player and even a camcorder so you can directly record the movie onto your computer, just like you were recording a TV show with a VCR. Thus, it COMPLETELY bypasses the copyright block on most DVDs. No need to burn and convert. It saves it as a neat MPG file ready for editting. It saves a hell of a lot more time over downloading the movie or using a program like DVD Decrypter.

And I also used it to make DVD copies of old VHS tapes. Its a neat gadget. Takes up almost no space on my desk. I bought a compact DVD player especially for my computer use.

Cool, I'll have to see what I can do for picking one up. It will have to wait though since I'm broke I had one of my videos nearly finished this morning, but the power went out and I lost it So I might replan it out and work on it when/if I get ADS DVD Express

2 new X-Men videos! Both with Buffy songs

Rest In Peace (Logan/Jean)
Close Your Eyes (Scott/Jean)

Wow, I just finished watching Rest In Peace, and it's pretty good. I love your choice of clips and songs they always seem to go well with one another. Do you give lessons in music video making? My favorite part is when Logan was in the danger room training session. The only thing I didn't care for was when Youtube kept having a window popping up asking if they could use some storage space on my computer But that's out of your control so no worries there.

Thanks CR!

I never get that pop up. Firefox blocks just about everything. Only place I still get popups at is Snopes.

And I give advice on video making

I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Jean is your favorite character in the X-Men movies? Just noticed she's the dominant character in your three vids so far. Do you sit there and plan it out or do you wing it when you make them? Because it looks like you spend hours on them and have it planned out.

Actually Nightcrawler is. I am constructing a few videos for him, he didn't have a lot of on screen time, which makes it very difficult.

Most of the time, I plan out my videos days in advance. Most of my ideas come from mindlessly listening to my ipod as I walk. Something will spark inspiration, and then I storyboard the whole thing in my head before I start working on it. Once I start working on it, a video can take me from 30 minutes to 2 months to make. Depends on how much time I set aside each day to work on it and how involved the song is. Like Cell Block Tango took me 2 months. With me working on it 5-7 days a week for 1-4 hours a day.

Close Your Eyes was spur of the moment video. I was bored and saw the song on my harddrive, listened to it and thought it would make a nice Scott/Jean video. 30 minutes later its completed and uploaded. Unfortunatly, not all of them are that easy. But that's a good thing too. I rather have a challange then easy street all the time, which can get boring.

Well for Nightcrawler, he had a lot of screen time in the animated shows, especially X-Men Evolution, so you might be able to do an all animated video of him. But wow, 2 months in advance. Mine take about 2 hours to get all the clips, about 5-8 hours to put it together depending on my speakers, after that an hour to tinker and fix it up. So roughly two days, except for the one I'm currently working on, it'll take weeks to do I think. I know what you mean though for your ipod, sometimes all it takes for me is to hear the beat to a song and I have an idea going.

Yeah, but I can't upload another Tv show onto my computer. As it is my computer hates me what with Gargoyles, The Last Unicorn, Ringing Bell, and all 3 X-Men movies on it.....It HATES me.

I know the feeling Too bad you couldn't upload one episode, and just keep a few small clips and get rid of the rest instead of keeping the entire episode. Have you considered getting your memory expanded? I think you can do that not sure though, I'm computer challenged (along with walking on roofs )

I can expand my memory. Its my hard drive that really needs the expansion though. Eventually I will. It is a custom built computer, so its super easy to upgrade. But I am content with what I have now. I have a long list of videos to make. Still have to get Into The West, the miniseries, on my computer as welll to make videos of that

New videos for:

Spirit - Stray (Wolf's Rain)
Ringing Bell - Learn To Be Lonely (Phantom of the Opera)
Brother Bear - Did You? (Hoobastank)

New Spirit video, and IMO one of my best overall.

Smells Like (Teen) Spirit

My first new video on LiveVideo. A "random crap" video. For those who don't know what a random crap video is: it is a video that is random clips that are edited to be amusing or just plain silly. Sped up, slowed down, backwards, or with new audio, its often just a mish-mash of clips from different movies/shows that is for pure entertainment with no story to go by.

And here it is...my first random crap video. Mostly Disney with some Spirit. Audio from, Godzilla, Austin Powers, Shrek, MST3K, Celine Dion, Pinky and the Brain, and The Simpsons. Video of Tarzan, Spirit, Lilo and Stitch, Lion King, Lion King 2, Bambi 2, and Aladdin.

Enjoy!

Siren's Random Crap Video #1[/url]

I really like your Princess Mononoke videos, captures the movie very well imo

Thank you yamiiguy! I will eventually start making more of those soon.

New video today!

Father, Deliver Me
A Bambi/Bambi 2 video. My first and I simply love the song. I think it suits Bambi and his relationship with his mother and father very well.

Please, if you watch it, either comment here or on the video. I worked really hard on this video and want to hear what people think of it. It has several movies on it, Pocahontas, Brother Bear, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, and Balto....however, the video is not about these movies. It's all about the song I used. The beginning is a bit hard to understand, but I posted the lyrics in the video comments box to the right of the video. I swear, I bit of this video was spiritual for me. That was why I was so determined to make it as perfect as possible. And that's why I want to hear what others think of it.

The Spirit Horse of the Cherokee


(I didn't post it in my normal thread I created, because that thread seems to get ignored and buried quickly )

Excellent video, Siren! Incredibly well-produced.

I was also quite impressed by your use of film clips. A 6 minute song, and nary a reused shot in sight. Very well done! Fitting flashes of shots at the very end with the drum beats must have been a bitch, too. I liked the sequences of imagery you paired with the chorus the best, I think - incredibly visceral and emotionally charged. The color-altered shots work really well, too, to strengthen the emotion.

The song selection is a little bit too "metal" for me, but it really fits the intensity of the suffering of an entire, nigh eradicated culture. Methinks I may do a bit of research on Man O' War now... ^_^

My god, I feel honored, Paka came out of her lurker mode to comment on my video :D:D Thanks so much for your review

This is one of Man O' War's "softer" songs. I also love Swords on the Wind and Courage. They are a bit "softer", lol. Man O' War is a great band, and not very well known. They write some epic stuff.

And I am so glad you said about repeating scenes....because actually...I did, but if it went so unnoticed, then I know the effect I went for worked out The very end, the very fast beats, those clips lasted 00:00:02 each. It took me a while to figure out how long each beat actually lasted, they go so fast, my program can't register them visually and my ears couldn't really register when it stopped and started again either, lol. So that was a bit of pure blind luck and trial and error.