This is fascinating! I had no idea Kryptonite was your first vid. I had that one in my watch-on-repeat folder for a looong time. :)
Augh, the mention of Meridian spoilers takes me back! :D It's just sort of nostalgic now, rather than ripping out my heart -- well, actually by the time Meridian came, I was out of my first flush of fannish love for SG1, and had kind of drifted away from the show, but that was the big nail in the coffin that killed my love for it. I didn't need to see the episode to know that I was done with the show. Funny how things change over the years ...
It's also really interesting to think about putting together a computer just for vidding, when now any decent computer can do it. I think it was about 2002 or maybe even 2003 when I made my first vids -- AMVs -- on our new iMac, using an old copy of Premiere that I am pretty sure I copied off the school computers when I was in college (so circa 1998 software!). At that time I was just making vids for my own fun and to burn on CD & send to my sister, so I didn't really care about getting clean source; I ripped from my own anime DVDs and used clips from fansubs. And it was so INCREDIBLY slow; I'm sure it would kill me now, because I remember how much of it was just waiting for every little thing to render, or for the program to finish loading, and it had a tendency to create jerky video or corrupt files if I had ANYTHING else running at the same time.
Unfortunately I don't think I copied any of those early AMVs when I finally ditched my last computer that was capable of running that old version of Premiere, although I think they are still on a backup hard drive that I have around here somewhere.
(I was still using that version of Premiere as recently as 2006; my early SGA vids were made in it, before I ditched it and went to vidding in iMovie ...)
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Augh, the mention of Meridian spoilers takes me back! :D It's just sort of nostalgic now, rather than ripping out my heart -- well, actually by the time Meridian came, I was out of my first flush of fannish love for SG1, and had kind of drifted away from the show, but that was the big nail in the coffin that killed my love for it. I didn't need to see the episode to know that I was done with the show. Funny how things change over the years ...
It's also really interesting to think about putting together a computer just for vidding, when now any decent computer can do it. I think it was about 2002 or maybe even 2003 when I made my first vids -- AMVs -- on our new iMac, using an old copy of Premiere that I am pretty sure I copied off the school computers when I was in college (so circa 1998 software!). At that time I was just making vids for my own fun and to burn on CD & send to my sister, so I didn't really care about getting clean source; I ripped from my own anime DVDs and used clips from fansubs. And it was so INCREDIBLY slow; I'm sure it would kill me now, because I remember how much of it was just waiting for every little thing to render, or for the program to finish loading, and it had a tendency to create jerky video or corrupt files if I had ANYTHING else running at the same time.
Unfortunately I don't think I copied any of those early AMVs when I finally ditched my last computer that was capable of running that old version of Premiere, although I think they are still on a backup hard drive that I have around here somewhere.
(I was still using that version of Premiere as recently as 2006; my early SGA vids were made in it, before I ditched it and went to vidding in iMovie ...)