Snowflake Challenge: Day 2

[alasse_irena]

Day 2

In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your wish-list if you feel comfortable doing so. Maybe someone will grant a wish. Check out other people's posts. Maybe you will grant a wish. If any wishes are granted, we'd love it if you link them to this post.
 

 

I spent a while going, "But I don't really want anything?" before I read some other people's entries and realised that no, there are tonnes of fandom related things I'd like. So here goes: 

1. Recommendations of good software for vidding.

I have a lot of ideas for vids, and none of the skills or resources necessary to execute these ideas. I would really like to fix that, and recommendations for software, as well as tips and suggestions, would be greatly appreciated.

2. Some really excellent Wolfstar fic involving Sirius and Remus trying to rekindle the relationship they had before Sirius went to Azkaban, and realising that they are not the same people, and this is not going to be as easy as picking up right where they left off.

I am deeply into that ship, and I haven't really ever been able to find fic that addresses the difficulties they would've have had trying to mend their friendship after thirteen years. I mean, those are thirteen really traumatic years for both of them, and one of them believed the whole time that the other was responsible, and I just really want to see how they navigate that.

3. Friends (am I allowed to request friends on my wishlist?) in the SnK fandom.

I recently finished watching the anime, and I am deeply invested. Help!

4. Well-researched and unusual alternate universes.

There's a lot of coffeeshop and college AUs out there, for a lot of fandoms, which is fine. I enjoy those myself. But what I'd really love to see is some weird and wonderful historical AUs. The colonial era Australia AU? Age of Sail AU? Great Depression AU? 

Comments

[sharpiefan]

I use DVD Decrypter to rip DVDs (really easy to use; it automatically selects the longest thing on the disc to rip, which is generally the film - in the case of TV episodes on one disc, you'll see what to rip cause they're generally a similar length. You'll want to rename the resulting files though, just for ease of seeing what's what when you're working with them.)

For actual editing, I use AVS Video Editor which is pretty easy to figure out and use.

Hope that helps - and if you've got any questions, fire away! :D

[alasse_irena]

Thank you very much, friend! I shall have a look at AVS video editor and see how I go.

[sharpiefan]

Good luck and have fun. (Vidding should come with a warning, though: This activity is highly addictive - proceed with caution.)

Also (and I can't stress this enough), allow yourself time when making your first vid, both to rip the footage and to figure out what you're doing. Don't worry if the result isn't perfect; you can always go back and improve on it later once you've got more experience.

[alasse_irena]

I have no delusions about making a perfect piece of video editing art the first time round... But hey, we'll see how it goes.