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This month, we're featuring three videos from Ezridax. Here's what Ezri says about her favorite videos. Below, vote on your favorite!
Stand By You
This video is a special one for me. I had the song and entire video planned out for months before I even started making it. I was determined to have each and every scene planned out in my head before I started, that way I could concentrate on the simple things – transitions, fading, stuff like that.
I put a glow effect on each chorus, to brighten up the scenes. Aside from that, the only other special effects aside are the fade transitions and the funky transition I did at the beginning of the first 2 stanzas. Of course the musical intro was a challenge with only the music to work with; so I picked some nice A/T'P moments that I hadn't used in the rest of vid and put them in black in white.
There really isn't much more to say about this vid other than that. I had the entire thing playing in my head for a very long time before I sat down to finally make it. I think the song is just so wonderful for an A/T'P vid, and I wanted it to be a special one, hence the extremely long planning phase.
Don't Speak
This was only the second video I had ever made. I used Nero Vision to make this. I've always loved this song by No Doubt, and while listening to it in my car I thought, “what a great Archer and T'Pol video this will make!” I knew right away that I wanted it to be based on the episodes Azati Prime and Damage. But I will be honest, aside from that, I had nothing planned! Yes, I broke my own planning rule :)
So I went and grabbed every single Archer, T'Pol, and Archer and T'Pol together clip from those 2 episodes. Now the truth of how this all came together – honestly, it just came to me. Like I said, I had nothing planned. I just started dragging clips onto the time frame, my inner muse was guiding me I suppose. Of course I made a major mistake – I misjudged my first instinct. The first flashback sequence I did, well I did a foolish thing. I had it all done, then I redid it. Once I exported it and watched it I realized that I should have stuck with my gut instinct so I had to redo the entire beginning again!
Aside from that little hiccup, the rest of the video came together easily. My “special effect” for this video was the “triple take” as I call it. I like to do some sort of new effect in each video, so I just replayed the same tiny sequence 3 times, in time to the repetition of the words.
For a long time, I though this was the best video I had ever made, and didn't think I could ever make a better one. Then I made Blurry ...
Blurry
I'll be honest, this one is my personal favorite and I consider it the best video I have ever made.This was also the first video I ever did using Sony Vegas. Its not super flashy, no crazy effects (aside from the little flash effect), but it tells the story I wanted to tell.
With this one, I had the idea long long before I found the song. I had wanted to do a Archer/T'Pol/Trip triangle video for a very long time, but I didn't have a song! Its very frustrating to have the idea but no song to make the video to. So I just listened to the radio incessantly until one day I heard “Blurry” by Puddle of Mudd. I had finally found my song! I made the entire video that weekend.
I had bits and pieces planned out before I started, and I knew there was only one way I was going to get every scene I needed. So I sat one night, with my clip cutting software and I went through every single episode of both Season 3 and Season 4 looking for clips! No joke. Plus a few nice A/T'P season 1 and 2 moments, and I was ready to roll! I had over 50 clips for this video, but once I got the basic flow down it was simple.
For the chorus I decided to have 1 nice AT'P clip, then 1 with them not so happy, and then 1 with the triangle, all with the little flash effect transitioning each scene. Once I got the rhythm down it was easy to pick the clips that worked. The ending was a bit difficult, and I must have redone it 5 times. Luckily I got some great advice from Tami which helped immensely!
This video took a ton of time, but was worth it in the end.
More?
For more of Ezri's videos, check out her videos at Yahoo.
Stand By You
This video is a special one for me. I had the song and entire video planned out for months before I even started making it. I was determined to have each and every scene planned out in my head before I started, that way I could concentrate on the simple things – transitions, fading, stuff like that.
I put a glow effect on each chorus, to brighten up the scenes. Aside from that, the only other special effects aside are the fade transitions and the funky transition I did at the beginning of the first 2 stanzas. Of course the musical intro was a challenge with only the music to work with; so I picked some nice A/T'P moments that I hadn't used in the rest of vid and put them in black in white.
There really isn't much more to say about this vid other than that. I had the entire thing playing in my head for a very long time before I sat down to finally make it. I think the song is just so wonderful for an A/T'P vid, and I wanted it to be a special one, hence the extremely long planning phase.
Don't Speak
This was only the second video I had ever made. I used Nero Vision to make this. I've always loved this song by No Doubt, and while listening to it in my car I thought, “what a great Archer and T'Pol video this will make!” I knew right away that I wanted it to be based on the episodes Azati Prime and Damage. But I will be honest, aside from that, I had nothing planned! Yes, I broke my own planning rule :)
So I went and grabbed every single Archer, T'Pol, and Archer and T'Pol together clip from those 2 episodes. Now the truth of how this all came together – honestly, it just came to me. Like I said, I had nothing planned. I just started dragging clips onto the time frame, my inner muse was guiding me I suppose. Of course I made a major mistake – I misjudged my first instinct. The first flashback sequence I did, well I did a foolish thing. I had it all done, then I redid it. Once I exported it and watched it I realized that I should have stuck with my gut instinct so I had to redo the entire beginning again!
Aside from that little hiccup, the rest of the video came together easily. My “special effect” for this video was the “triple take” as I call it. I like to do some sort of new effect in each video, so I just replayed the same tiny sequence 3 times, in time to the repetition of the words.
For a long time, I though this was the best video I had ever made, and didn't think I could ever make a better one. Then I made Blurry ...
Blurry
I'll be honest, this one is my personal favorite and I consider it the best video I have ever made.This was also the first video I ever did using Sony Vegas. Its not super flashy, no crazy effects (aside from the little flash effect), but it tells the story I wanted to tell.
With this one, I had the idea long long before I found the song. I had wanted to do a Archer/T'Pol/Trip triangle video for a very long time, but I didn't have a song! Its very frustrating to have the idea but no song to make the video to. So I just listened to the radio incessantly until one day I heard “Blurry” by Puddle of Mudd. I had finally found my song! I made the entire video that weekend.
I had bits and pieces planned out before I started, and I knew there was only one way I was going to get every scene I needed. So I sat one night, with my clip cutting software and I went through every single episode of both Season 3 and Season 4 looking for clips! No joke. Plus a few nice A/T'P season 1 and 2 moments, and I was ready to roll! I had over 50 clips for this video, but once I got the basic flow down it was simple.
For the chorus I decided to have 1 nice AT'P clip, then 1 with them not so happy, and then 1 with the triangle, all with the little flash effect transitioning each scene. Once I got the rhythm down it was easy to pick the clips that worked. The ending was a bit difficult, and I must have redone it 5 times. Luckily I got some great advice from Tami which helped immensely!
This video took a ton of time, but was worth it in the end.
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For more of Ezri's videos, check out her videos at Yahoo.
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