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16 Dec 2013 12:42 pm
30 Days of Vidding: Day 25
Day 25: Music: Do you listen to music while you rip source? Do you listen to your vid song immediately before vidding, months before vidding, or just while working on it?
I'm going to interpret "rip[ping] source" as "clipping", since all of my source is currently ripped to my external hard drive and I certainly didn't actively stay at the computer while it was ripping.
Actually -- listening to music while I clip is a really good idea. But not because it would help me vid. Because it would help me avoid getting sucked into just watching the source. I tend to only listen to music if I'm running or if Mr. Adjacent puts it on. Which sometimes happens to be while I'm clipping, but maybe I should make a more conscientious effort to do put on music during that stage.
I don't listen to my vidsong while I'm clipping, though, because by the time I'm at that stage I'm in danger of getting sick of the song, or at least losing my inspiration. Which is a nice transition to the second part of the question:
I listen to my vidsong incessantly when I first get an idea, especially if I'm excited about it. But since it takes me months and months (usually) to get from an initial idea to an actual WIP, this is pretty dangerous. By the time I started working on "Everwhere", I'd listened to the song so many times I was starting to totally tune it out when I heard it. Luckily I still felt excited once I started laying down clips, but there have also been times when I've lost inspiration to even start a project simply because I listened myself sick of the song while I was waiting to carve out time to make the vid.
Once I start editing a vid, though, I pretty much only listen to the song while I'm working on it. The exception is if I feel stuck, in which case I'll give myself a few days' break from the vid and then listen to the song while running.
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I'm going to interpret "rip[ping] source" as "clipping", since all of my source is currently ripped to my external hard drive and I certainly didn't actively stay at the computer while it was ripping.
Actually -- listening to music while I clip is a really good idea. But not because it would help me vid. Because it would help me avoid getting sucked into just watching the source. I tend to only listen to music if I'm running or if Mr. Adjacent puts it on. Which sometimes happens to be while I'm clipping, but maybe I should make a more conscientious effort to do put on music during that stage.
I don't listen to my vidsong while I'm clipping, though, because by the time I'm at that stage I'm in danger of getting sick of the song, or at least losing my inspiration. Which is a nice transition to the second part of the question:
I listen to my vidsong incessantly when I first get an idea, especially if I'm excited about it. But since it takes me months and months (usually) to get from an initial idea to an actual WIP, this is pretty dangerous. By the time I started working on "Everwhere", I'd listened to the song so many times I was starting to totally tune it out when I heard it. Luckily I still felt excited once I started laying down clips, but there have also been times when I've lost inspiration to even start a project simply because I listened myself sick of the song while I was waiting to carve out time to make the vid.
Once I start editing a vid, though, I pretty much only listen to the song while I'm working on it. The exception is if I feel stuck, in which case I'll give myself a few days' break from the vid and then listen to the song while running.
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