yup. still boring.

[frayadjacent]

OMG how do people viiiid?????  I am so bored of clipping.  I need a snack, maybe?

In other news, I went on my first run in almost 3 weeks.  Cramps + migraines + sinus infections conspired to get me irrecoverably off the half-marathon training path.  :(  Well, at least I'm running again.

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[sanguinity]

Me, I get bored of clipping, decide I have enough for That One Chunk of the timeline, and then spend the rest of the vidding process being frustrated that I don't have the right clip. :-P

[frayadjacent]

Yes, I've been alternating between editing and clipping. But part of me just wants to get the damn clipping over with so I can edit with everything I need!

[sanguinity]

How do you clip? Sound off, sound on? Going through all the footage, or selected footage? High-speed or 1x? GIMME DETAIL.

[frayadjacent]

Ah, well here's part of the problem. I'm clipping MKVs, which Streamclip, or rather my version of it, doesn't love. So there is no audio because it doesn't work for some reason. And the conversion is very slow, and the computer gets stuck sometimes if I skip around. (I can jump from one section of the episode OK, but skipping around within a scene makes the video freeze momentarily.) High speed isn't an option. All of these things slow me down. Even not having sound, because I'm rewatching as well -- I don't remember the show well enough to clip from memory this way. So I rewatch on VLC, take notes of what scenes to clip, and then open the episode in Streamclip.

But when I've clipped MOV or MP4 files, I guess it depends? If it's a source I know well, like Buffy, I definitely turn off the sound, watch at 2x speed, and skip scenes. When I was clipping for my tightpresent vid (sob!) I watched with audio on and at 1x speed because I wanted to re-watch scenes. But I did skip scenes that weren't relevant to the vid I was planning.

[sanguinity]

Oh, frack, of course that's going to be boring and annoying. If I'm clipping something feature-length, sometimes Streamclip struggles JUST ENOUGH with it that it's a problem to jump around in it, etc., and that always makes clipping more irritating that it had to be.

Yeah, that's about what I do: stuff I'm more familiar with, scan at a higher speed; stuff I'm less familiar with or want to review, watch at 1x with sound on. There usually has to be a sound-off pass of relevant scenes, though, just because the soundtrack sometimes causes my brain to lie about what the footage actually shows. (If that makes sense?)

[frayadjacent]

the soundtrack sometimes causes my brain to lie about what the footage actually shows

Ha ha, yes! Though I've also been guilty of separating the visuals from original context too much. I see a moment and want to use it visually to represent something quite different than what the original scene meant. Sometimes it works, sometimes I think it's just very confusing! It depends on how well-known the scene is, mostly.