I had no idea Kryptonite was your first vid. I had that one in my watch-on-repeat folder for a looong time. :)
*beams*!
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.
The first three seasons were the golden years for me; fourth season brought a change in tone I wasn't thrilled with, so I was already coping with not loving it as much as I had, even as I still loved it to bits. Meridian was just so awful and hard to deal with.
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.
Oh, god, yes. The vidding computer we were using was literally "the vidding computer" -- the only things on it were vidding-related programs, browsers to look things up, and FTP to upload. Because that was the only way to be sure that we didn't accidentally have Word or something open in the background, and start crashing or destroying things.
And we still have little moments when we go to render or output a vid, and we can just... sit there for a few minutes, and we're done. Back when we started, exporting a vid for a con meant setting it up, checking everything compulsively because you *did not* want to do this more than once, hitting the button, and walking away to have dinner and watch an episode of something, in hopes it might be done when the ep was over. Every time I get impatient when a complicated vid is taking 5-10 minutes to completely render, I remind myself of that. *g*
I admit, though, I'm spoiled; we just sort of kept assuming you needed "a vidding computer" even when we knew it wasn't true, and kept things as high-end as possible, continuing to build things for the best vidding bang for the buck. I think vidding on a non-optimized system would drive me crazy. *g*
I was still using that version of Premiere as recently as 2006;
I would probably happily still be vidding on our first software (buggy and crashy though it was, holy cow), but therienne is very keen on having updated systems, so she's been dragging me along with her. I admit, the modern versions of Premiere are just lovely (and FCP was, too, before they went to X, which we looked at but couldn't cope with so switched back to Premiere).
And oh, rescue those AMVs, if you can find them! I hate to see things vanish.
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*beams*!
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.
The first three seasons were the golden years for me; fourth season brought a change in tone I wasn't thrilled with, so I was already coping with not loving it as much as I had, even as I still loved it to bits. Meridian was just so awful and hard to deal with.
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.
Oh, god, yes. The vidding computer we were using was literally "the vidding computer" -- the only things on it were vidding-related programs, browsers to look things up, and FTP to upload. Because that was the only way to be sure that we didn't accidentally have Word or something open in the background, and start crashing or destroying things.
And we still have little moments when we go to render or output a vid, and we can just... sit there for a few minutes, and we're done. Back when we started, exporting a vid for a con meant setting it up, checking everything compulsively because you *did not* want to do this more than once, hitting the button, and walking away to have dinner and watch an episode of something, in hopes it might be done when the ep was over. Every time I get impatient when a complicated vid is taking 5-10 minutes to completely render, I remind myself of that. *g*
I admit, though, I'm spoiled; we just sort of kept assuming you needed "a vidding computer" even when we knew it wasn't true, and kept things as high-end as possible, continuing to build things for the best vidding bang for the buck. I think vidding on a non-optimized system would drive me crazy. *g*
I was still using that version of Premiere as recently as 2006;
I would probably happily still be vidding on our first software (buggy and crashy though it was, holy cow), but
And oh, rescue those AMVs, if you can find them! I hate to see things vanish.