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[fan_eunice]

So, I'm ripping and scrubbing through ALL of Buffy, 'cause I've decided to finally do a BtVS vid I've been wanting to do for years, probably end up being for Premieres this year.

And, you guys, I love this show. I'm working on season 7 right now, and though I know there's a lot of...dissatisfaction with the later seasons, I dunno. I still love it, and love it hard. All of it, really, even the much maligned season 6. There are shows that I have gotten frustrated with and thought went on too long and suffered for it. Buffy is just not one of them for me. I finished out the last season satisfied with the run of the show and how it ended, and I remain so. Whatever issues I may have had along the way are more than heavily outweighed by how much I love these people and this world.

I flit around to a lot of different sources and fandoms and whatever, but there are very few shows of my heart. Buffy, Doctor Who, Homicide. And god, it's good to spend some time with old friends right now. Whatever anyone says, 'Are you ready to be strong?' will never fail to cause me to simultaneously burst into tears and yell FUCK YEAH at the same time.

My shooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow.

Comments

[laurashapiro]

NEW BUFFY VID FROM YOU?!?!?!

Life is fucking awesome, man.

Also? Me too so very much what you said here. ♥

[fan_eunice]

*hugs*

I am, at the moment, a teensy bit overwhelmed at having SEVEN SEASONS of source to go through. And by teensy, I mean panicking, but I am pretty sure it's going to happen anyway, 'cause I want this vid.

Also, there may be more on the way after, because once I've got all the source on my computer, prepped and ready to go, there's no reason not to go back and maybe poke at various ideas I had through the years but never got around to.

[laurashapiro]

Dude, I have been there. "Beatitudes" ate me for breakfast: 7 seasons, twelve characters.

I recommend that you do what I didn't and skip episodes that aren't critically important to your vid's theme. There's no law that says you have to clip every single ep!

Also: MORE! More is better! \o/

[fan_eunice]

Heh, I don't generally clip in any traditional sense but there's no way to just kind of scrub through this much source so what I'm doing is just breaking each episode down by scene in bins, so I can move around and scrub through them as I go. Doesn't take that long to organize it that way (well, it does but only because there is SO MUCH) so I figure if I just go ahead and do it for the whole thing I'll just have it there from now on whenever I get the urge to vid Buffy, only bonus no prep work.

I gotta say this is where I am *really* seeing the advantage of having avisynth. One of the reasons I never got around to vidding Buffy on the mac is the sheer hard drive space it would require to convert everything for the way I vid. This way I can have *everything* on my hard drive ready to throw on the timeline at will, and it's wonderful :)

Not being able to work directly with vob files was pretty much my only complaint ever about FCP.

[laurashapiro]

::nodnod:: I have often wondered how avisynth would change my process (if at all). Having seen the way jarrow works with it, I can definitely imagine the advantages. I just don't want to have to give up my totally uncrashable Mac to get it.

[fan_eunice]

I don't blame you. My switch back to PC was not voluntary and sometimes I *really* miss my Mac a lot. What's weird though, is since being back in Windows, the changes made to it and to Premiere since I last dealt with them remind me more of FCP and OSX than the olden days when I started vidding on a PC. So it is not nearly as tragic as I was anticipating.

[laurashapiro]

I'm just glad you're able to vid! Benefits for everybody, that's what I see (:

[the_shoshanna]

So very much what Laura said. Which is to say, what you said. Season six works for me, and it always has. And the thought of a Buffy vid from you makes me happy!

Shooooooooooooooooow.

(I don't have a Buffy icon, but I think this one will do.)

[fan_eunice]

I don't have one anymore either! SAD. MAH SHOW!!

[alchemise]

*patiently waits for Buffy vid* :D

[fan_eunice]

If it goes to premieres, August! Or, possibly there will be one of the other ones I am contemplating after this one is done released first while this one waits for vvc release? I don't even know. But, yes...Buffy vid(s) on the way! :D

[thuviaptarth]

This is my expression at the idea of you doing more Buffy vids: :D :D :D :D

[fan_eunice]

:D It is time to go back and hang out with the scoobies again for me :D

[phoenix64]

I love ALL the Buffy, though in a way I'm kind of glad I didn't get involved with fandom while I was watching it. I can't wait to see what you're going to do with it.

[fan_eunice]

I had a lovely little corner of the fandom where I met some of my current real life besties, but yeah...wider fandom was kind of terrifying. Then again, I consider it my training ground for dealing with Who fandom :D

[phoenix64]

Right, for me due South was my introduction to fandom but I didn't put myself out there at all. I eased in a bit with Firefly but Doctor Who is where I truly started joining in. I love my little corner of fandom, and you are one of the big reasons for that.

[heresluck]

OMG SO MUCH YAY at the thought of a Buffy vid from you!

Buffy's one of my Shows Of My Heart too. For all its wobbles, and it did have them, I loved it start to finish. It has a depth and intelligence and consistency of vision coupled with transformation of character that continue to astonish me.

[fan_eunice]

*HUGS*

Buffy brought me to you, omg. I would love it for that alone, but then there is THE SHOW. OUR SHOOOOOOOOOOOW.

[charmax]

I am just echoing everyone else: Yay to a new Buffy vid from you!

[fannishnonsense]

Yay, Buffy! I can't wait to see what you do.

[par_avion]

BtVS has such a special place in my heart! I'm glad to hear that you are vidding it. :)

[cee_m]

Ooooh shiny! I miss Buffy so much sometimes. I have such WARM FLUFFY FEELINGS about that show. It's like my original ALL CAPS show and I don't know that any show ever will be as important to me as that one. *hugs*