dbskyler

Sweet.

Don't you like Three and Sarah Jane?

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Yes, but I don't own many of those videos. Four is "my" Doctor, so when I was imagining this fanvid, I always imagined Fourth Doctor scenes, and that's what I used. I was planning to also put some "Five Doctors" clips in the montage at the end, but ran out of song!

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Four was my first Doctor, but I prefer Three to Four. (I'm actually so passionate about several different incarnations these days that I no longer consider a particular one to be 'my' Doctor.)

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Yes, I'm a pretty big fan of Ten and Eleven, too. Plus of course I enjoy lots of other Doctors. When I think of Doctor/Sarah, though, my head still mostly goes to Four/Sarah. Early imprinting, what can you do?

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Since I'm not that big a shipper of Doctor/Sarah, the fact that Four and SJS were my first Doctor and Companion don't make any difference to me. (Plus, I don't really go in for shipping a single incarnation with a companion who's known him in several. It's still The Doctor, whatever face he wears!)

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Oh, I agree with you, it's always still the Doctor. What I meant was, when I think of the Doctor/Sarah relationship, I mostly go to Fourth Doctor scenes in my head, because they're the ones I saw first. So to me, those scenes are the "definitive" examples of their relationship. If that makes any sense. It doesn't mean that Three/Sarah isn't any less valid, or Ten/Sarah, or Eleven/Sarah, or Eight/Sarah, or any of the other pairings.

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Fair enough.

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(That is me smiling widely a lot here.) That was brilliant!!! The Classic Who clips look an awful lot better in this than they do in a lot of people's vids - did you do something, or is it just being legal paying off? Anyway, I love the song, the mood of it, the clips. Wow. It was fun to hear about the progress - and then finally get to watch the result, and it sounded like it'd be a cool vid - and it was. Well done!!!

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Oh, yay, I'm glad you liked it!

did you do something, or is it just being legal paying off?

Well, if I did something clever to enhance the video quality, it wasn't on purpose, and I probably couldn't replicate it. *g* But I suspect that it's simply because all the clips are straight off my DVDs. It stands to reason that if you're collecting clips from various sources, those sources might be of variable quality. However, I do think I probably should've de-interlaced "Pyramids of Mars" and "Hand of Fear" after all to improve the quality of those clips. Oh well, next time.

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I've found it on YT now as well and favourited it in my bookmarks. And, lol, now you can be all smug and virtuous about how crime never pays, or something...

Now, didn't we have a conversation about this in which if you learnt, I was going to request a fanvid off you? ;-D (LOL. Do not fear. I'll have to learn, too, won't i?)

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You favorited it?? Wow, you really do like it! :D :D

Now, didn't we have a conversation about this in which if you learnt, I was going to request a fanvid off you?

I remember that. Didn't you want Five/Tegan? I'd be happy to do that for you as soon as you purchase all the DVDs and mail them over to me to keep forever. ; )

(But honestly? If I can do it, you can do it! Especially since you're already better at graphics than I am.)

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Heh. And, yes it was. Sounds a fair bargain to me - I'll just wait until Frontios is out, as I want clips from that, definitely. ;-D

I wouldn't mind having a go at a fanvid - I once made something similar for media studies using many moons ago an editing suite and video and cassettes and that was fun. It took ages, though. Days and days. However, I would need to download software and rip stuff onto my pc and put it together, and while I have done a slide-show thing (it didn't really work out, but I mean to have another try sometime), I think my pc would die. It copes well with most things, but it groans a bit sometimes when I screencap and make icons. I dread to think what it would do if I tried to play about with moving pictures on it...

Edit: Also you mentioned the slowness of ripping and leaving your pc on all night to do it. It was at that point, I realised I could never make a fanvid. I switch off all the lights, and the Tv, and EVERYTHING obsessively. Plus, my pc is in my room. :lol:

Edited Date: 2011-04-16 09:16 am (UTC)

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Yeah, I thought I had a pretty good computer, but it didn't like all the ripping and importing. Then once the vid got to be over two minutes in length, it started disappearing out from under me whenever I made a change to it. Fortunately it always came back, and anyway I kept making back-up copies at every step -- which was very helpful, by the way, because it made it easy to go back to the last "I like this" version. In fact, I had alternative versions of scenes at several points, and I would play first one and then the other to decide which I liked best.

I still hope you give vidding a try someday, though! I'd kind of like to see that Five/Tegan vid. : )

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I still hope you give vidding a try someday, though! I'd kind of like to see that Five/Tegan vid.

And so would I, so who knows, I suppose? Also it is one it would be hard to explain, because this is the song I have in mind (by Aimee Mann):

Nothing was saving our day
There was nothing to say,
But you said something anyway
Claiming I stepped out of line
Which forced you to leave me,
As if that idea was mine.
[Chorus]
Oh, you stupid thing
Speaking of course as your dear departed
Oh, you stupid thing
It wasn't me that you outsmarted,
You stupid thing
Stopping it all before it even started

I bet you knew it would come
That's just like you, to sit back
And just play it dumb
One word of warning would help
But that sacrifice was made
Trying to save yourself
[Chorus]

Maybe that's just how I am
To fall where I stand,
Or I'm weak for that kind of man
One who looks helpless and brave
But you turned into a coward
I don't care for the parts you saved.
[Chorus]

Which sounds as if I'm being really mean to Five, but I'm just kind of thinking of Resurrection and stuff... So, yeah. Except there is the technical side, not killing my pc and the fact that I want to do family history and writing and... :-)

Your example is very inspiring, tho'!

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Wow, that's a great song for Five/Tegan! I don't think it's being mean to Five at all, especially considering it's Tegan thinking those things. The first two stanzas could actually work in either direction -- Five to Tegan, or Tegan to Five, couldn't they?

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:-D I doubt it'll ever exist, but it makes me happy to know that someone can see why the song brings them to my mind! (I don't usually tend to do that with songs much. It is usually the other way round - people make fanvids, and then I see that song as being connected to the show.)

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clocketpatch

Awww, it's telling me that my form session has run out and not letting me watch. D: D: D:

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clocketpatch

WORKING NOW!

I was blocking the frame. Silly me. That was very VERY well done. It didn't seem like a retreading at all and you put the clips together in some very unique ways. I like it loads! And as others are saying above, the Classic Who is very very clear and shiny compared to a lot of vids.

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Oh good! (Especially since I don't know what a form session is, so was pretty clueless on what to do about that.)

Really glad to hear that you like it! I'm also very glad to hear that it didn't seem like a retread of everyone else's Doctor/Sarah fanvid. (Although I've probably watched more of those than you have. *g*)

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aralias.livejournal.com

well done! it doesn't look like your first effort at all. are you planning more? (that first there seems to suggest it, and the process seems to have gone relatively smoothly)

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I'm not planning more right now, but yes, I'd like to do this again sometime. It was surprisingly fun.

Nice to hear this doesn't look like a first fanvid. : )

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pitry.livejournal.com

Sarah! Awww. That's a lovely vid right there :)

Also, I wholeheartedly approve of your choice of music :D

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Oh, yay! : )

And that song is one of my all-time favorites. Although my saying that is practically admitting to being middle-aged. I'm sure there are lots of young people who've never heard of the Moody Blues.

I'm very sensitive to music in fanvids. Someone can make an excellent fanvid, but if I don't care for the music, I can't watch it.

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pitry.livejournal.com

Butbutbut! It's one of MY all-time favourites, too!

...See, you can also claim to have been born in the 80s. And have an... old fashioned taste in music :D

And that's very true. I mean, unless you hit 'mute', you're stuck with the song. And it does alter your perception of the vid as a whole, I think, if you really can't stand the music.

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Butbutbut! It's one of MY all-time favourites, too!

You don't have old-fashioned taste -- you have excellent taste! :D

When I was talking to prospective vidders during the help_haiti auction about whether they could make this fanvid, some of them had never heard of the group or the song. So I got a little self-conscious about it. But you're right, loving a song has nothing to do with its age. After all, "Story in Your Eyes" came out in 1971, when I was too young to be paying attention to music on the radio.

(In fact, I was minus 10! Because I was born in the 80s! *g*)

But some of my favorite songs really did come out before I was born. Good music is ageless. :D

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shadowturquoise.livejournal.com

I FINALLY got to see this! Wow! this is undoubtedly the shippiest SJ video I've seen. I agree with the other comments that the quality is much better than I've come to expect in music vids. All your worrying really paid off. I'm trying to figure out which part you were so afraid wouldn't fit because the vid scene wasn't long enough for the music. Everything looks like it fits great.

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