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ugghhh vidding. I was feeling pretty great about having pulled ALL THE CLIPS for First Class and X1, and then I realized I still have to do X2 and X3, and X2 is so long. Also my ideas are not quite as developed as I thought, and I'm going to be working with about 700 clips for each of these two vids and just scrolling through them is going to be a nightmare, let alone choosing among them. Also I'm going to have to re-pull all those XMFC clips when the DVD comes out--well, not all of them, but the idea still fills me with a deep sense of nooooooooooooooooooo.

Also, given that I spent eight hours today working on this, I don't know why I feel so guilty for not being in Premiere NOW RIGHT NOW doing some more. Well, I sort of do, it's because I made a deal with myself that I didn't have to think about any of the dozen or more things I desperately need to get done for my actual life as long as I was vidding (or writing, in theory, not likely) and not just sitting around being a failure. WHY IS MY BRAIN SO MESSED UP.

The stuff I have so far is pretty great, it's just that there are these loooong instrumental sections and I thought I had them figured out, and I guess I do in very broad strokes, but actually narrowing that down to 'what clips go where' is proving to be...difficult. Oh well, I will figure it out tomorrow when my brain hurts slightly less, right now is distracting-myself-from-angst-and-self-loathing-with-hours-of-fanfic time.

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boooooo to vidding angst! it is very unfair that we have to do all the "clipping" and "figuring out what goes where" bits . . . why can't I just magically arrive at the part where I fit things into the timeline and the vid happens?

I dunno what your process is like, but if it helps at all, I can tell you my process for dealing with a giant database of footage and not knowing what goes where. I usually type out all the lyrics and print them out, then play all the clips I've clipped one after another in quicktime while listening to the song on repeat; quite often I get lots of ideas for "what specifically goes where" just by listening to the song a billion times and rewatching all the footage I've pulled out. Then I jot the ideas down on the lyrics sheet to avoid forgettage. That is my suggestion!

This is actually fairly close to my process, I just do it several times over in a very haphazard way. I rewatch everything and take notes, pull all the clips, open up Premiere and watch all the clips again, take more notes, watch them again...meanwhile I attempt to actually vid, sometimes before I even have all the clips ready, because my attention span is tenuous and needs constant rewards to keep going. So, uh, I do more or less the same thing but in a manner calibrated for maximum frustration and least efficiency, I guess? *g* I actually have never tried just sitting down and putting all the clips on a playlist and watching them while not in Premiere. That sounds very promising actually.

It is nice to hear that other people have trouble with the "what goes where" as well. Sometimes it seems like everyone else's ideas are so fully formed and well-thought-out, and mine...are not. My ideas are basically "these two lines and this verse over here would be AMAZING, and nothing else seems actively screamingly wrong...let's do it!" This has led to many, many vids for which I've spent dozens of hours pulling clips and then abandoned them a week or two later, which is like the worst of all possible vidding worlds.