sga vids

[lobelia321]

I am amazed and excited to be in a fandom that makes vids. Also, I am amazed and excited at owning the technology that can view said vids!

I have three fantastic SGA vids downloaded on my hard drive and as soon as I find their urls I will rec them but for now, two questions:

1) Any good vids out there that you want to rec?

2) How, um, does one make a vid? (slippery, slippery)

Comments

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

i have no idea about #2 but for #1... oh, man. this is the best vid EVER!

"rumble" on this page.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I think I once tried to view this earlier but I didn't have the technology yet I have today! Am downloading it as I type.

[2am-optimism.livejournal.com]

I bet one of those vids is 'stress' - best.sga.vid.ever! :)

To make a vid, you need a program like Adobe Premiere or Windows Movie Maker (WMM is easiest and tends to come with XP anyway - most people don't even realise that they could have been making their own vids all along :) More than happy to issue further tips/instructions if you're keen to do your own thing at any stage?

Macs also have basic video editing software installed if that's your flavour of technology, but I can't remember what it's called

*waits for Mac-user to enlighten both of us*

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I have found an application on my ibook called iMovieMaker. Do you know that one? What do i do with it? it seems to think I want to import clips from my camcorder.


Um, no.

*loves your icon*

[2am-optimism.livejournal.com]

icon is by the graphically talented miss zoetrope :)

what's the um, no for? no you don't have the 'stress' vid? or no you don't want to import clips from your camcorder?

I'm afraid I'm a pc-gal, and cannot be of much help. I have just had a quick go on iMovieMaker on the Mac here, and it's telling me I can't import an avi file more than 9 minutes long, which is clearly bunkum. *flails about cluelessly* So sorry!

there are a couple of good vidding comms that may help answer your questions though: vidding (unsurprisingly!) and vidder_weekly, which has a whole section on topics for beginners and is a sort of roundup of useful things each week. Hope that helps somewhat!!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Um, no was for 'no, I don't want to import clips from my camcorder' (do I have Rodney McKay and Radek Zelenka on my camcorder?? I ask you). And thank yoiu for llinks to vidding comms! :-)

[childeproof.livejournal.com]

Two questions only you can answer -

(1) Now you've turned me onto SGA (yes, you!), where do I go to read good fic? Any authors or comm recs would be great. I've read almost nothing, beyond having googled something that turned out to be a bondage horror full of dangling qualifiers.

(2) I read recently, perhaps on your journal, perhaps not, a German compound noun which translated roughly as 'a desire to communicate' - and as I tend to collect German compound nouns which don't have snappy English equivalents and programme my mobile phone with them (yes, I use 'Weltanschaung' and 'Weltschmerz' in text messages. Not often, mind you...), I'd love to be reminded of this one.

Ooh, and flicking back through your recent entries - I adored Cloud Atlas too. It's the only one of his novels I've read, and my beloved and I ended up reading it simultaneously in cafes in Italy on our Summer Holiday for Post-Flat-Purchase Convalescents last summer. The reviews of Black Swan Green seem rather dubious, though.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I haven't read any Black Swan Green riviews; I don't read reviews of new novels I haven't yet read; I barely glance at the blurb: I wish to be spoiler free! But once I've finished I may want to devour reviews! Do you remember where you saw them? I am too in love with David Mitchell to be objective, though; I love even his flaws. In a way, I love especially his flaws because that makes him loom as less of a demi-god.

Hm, German compound for desire to communicate... I could just coin one, of course. Desire would be 'Wunsch' but communicate? Mitteilungswunsch, perhaps??

SGA recs: find them on my del.icio.us. My top three:

Time in a bottle by astolat

< a href="http://yearningvoid.net/stories/julad/000083.html">Absurdity theory by julad

Things to do in Denver when you're dead by cesperanza

Happy hunting and reading and happy being seduced!!!

Once your appetite is whetted, ask again and I shall point you to songvideos, episodes with man-on-man kissing (yes!) and a clip from a film that features the actor who plays Rodney McKay snogging another man in a very long and rather swoonsome totally man-on-man gay kiss. Plus you get to see his bottom (see icon = McKay actor's bum).

The comm to join is sga_noticeboard. It's a fabulous catch-all.

So nice to hear from you!!

[frogspace.livejournal.com]

I read recently, perhaps on your journal, perhaps not, a German compound noun which translated roughly as 'a desire to communicate'

Could be 'redefreudig' or 'redelustig' (Redelust = noun) if you want to put emphasis on the 'talking' part or 'kontaktfreudig' (outgoing) or 'kontaktfaehig' (ability to communicate well) if you want to highlight the social interaction part.

[childeproof.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I now have many options!
*begins to teaching mobile phone how to spell them*

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Redelust! How I love that word. And it fits Rodney McKay to a tee!!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Another fic has been added to my top fics of all time (and it also happens to be SGA) so in the interests of completeness and swooniness:

Intersections by kaneko. God but it is gorgeous and good and fantastically written. It has lists and it has equations.

[childeproof.livejournal.com]

I've already read it from your rec, and entirely enjoyed it. Though I was less in love with the equations (which, as a survivor of remedial maths, filled me with vague alarm) than the tent-bound sexiness, and the compulsive fruit-devouring. I get very tetchy if breakfast doesn't feature a banana.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I have a great fear of maths and loating of memories of maths homework (I once ripped apart a one-inch thick textbook in rage) but maybe this is why I am entranced by the way that equations are used in this fic; how this can be a language that is very comfortable for some (the characters) and it is often glossed over in SGA fic (by me, for one, *g*) and I was impressed how this fic took it and used it. But the tent... I mean, I can't even begin to swoon enough about the tent. I have read the tent scene three times by now (it has an equation smack bang in the middle of it! I love how it moves from equation to Rodney's thigh).

Oh, and drosophilous Rodney... :-) I am so happy you liked this! With no canon knowledge, too. *g*