Blaze of Glory Fan Video (Serenity spoilers)

POSTED BY: Fayleigh
UPDATED: Tuesday, May 9, 2006 19:38
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THENCDUCK

Saturday, February 4, 2006 2:04 AM

Sweet video! Thanks for sharing it. Like the song goes good with the western flare of the verse.

EARLYSUMMER

Sunday, February 5, 2006 4:47 AM

Awesome video. Perfect song for our BDHs. Thank You for sharing.

Wash: "Didn't she shoot you once."
Mal: "Everyone's making a fuss."

MIR

Tuesday, February 7, 2006 7:40 AM

Absolutely the perfect song! You did a GREAT job putting this together.

DREAMSMITH

Wednesday, February 8, 2006 3:22 AM

Excellent, outstanding, VERY well done.
And I liked it, too.
^_^

NEEDY

Wednesday, February 8, 2006 4:53 PM

I love it to bits!

Actually, when I first thought about doing a Firefly/Serenity video, the only song that came to mind that would be a perfect match was... you've guessed it, Blaze of Glory

I never did do one and so its like I've got my requested video and didn't even have to put any work into it

Plus you made it a hell of a lot better than I imagine I could have done

Needy. Male Companion a.k.a. First Boy Whore of Destiny

FAYLEIGH

Tuesday, February 14, 2006 4:21 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by ThePistonEngine:
Excellent video! May I ask how you got such good quality with low file size? What program did you use, what encoder?

Thank you! I can't take credit for the file size/quality because I was pretty clueless about what I was doing. After a bazillion attempts to burn my DVD's to my laptop as avi files (which Windows Movie Maker uses), I was pretty frustrated. I think I had tried about 80 million "free" programs from the web.

So I thought..hey..somebody else surely has gone thru this. So I did a google search and found the whole series was in avi format, but it was something called a bit torrent. (Something that sounded strange and mysterious and possibly a bit evil.

So I read up on what bit torrent was and decided to go that route to get the avi files. That took a goodly long time, and at first I was dismayed when all I could hear was audio on the files. But a co-worker told me I probably just needed a free codec (at which point I said, "hey, what's a codec?" and a long discussion ensued.) He directed me to a site to get the free codec. That was peachy because I could then SEE the files that took agonizing hours to download.

After that I just imported them into my Movie Maker clips gallery, made the movie, and saved it with the recommended format.

Anyway..long story short...I can take no credit for accidental file size/quality. But THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone's positive feedback about the video!! It makes my day.

Fayleigh

FAYLEIGH

Tuesday, February 14, 2006 4:26 AM

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Originally posted by NEEDY:
I love it to bits!

Actually, when I first thought about doing a Firefly/Serenity video, the only song that came to mind that would be a perfect match was... you've guessed it, Blaze of Glory

I never did do one and so its like I've got my requested video and didn't even have to put any work into it

Plus you made it a hell of a lot better than I imagine I could have done

Needy. Male Companion a.k.a. First Boy Whore of Destiny

Thank you, Needy. That's so cool we had the same idea. I've been wanting to do this video for a long time, and the first time I saw Serenity in theatres I was hearing lyrics at certain parts. (When I wasn't hearing my own gasp of dismay and subsequent CRYING, of course. We all know the part I'm talking about. It's in the video.) I'm very glad you like it.

Fayleigh

STARSONG

Sunday, February 19, 2006 3:29 PM

Oh... that is SO incredibly awesome!

Aweful neat how you managed to find a scene for just about every lyric -- that's some work right there!

(I think the sepia-toned horse riding and "everyone walking together" are my favorites. Nice work! )

FAYLEIGH

Saturday, March 18, 2006 1:58 AM

Hey ya'll...I'm just tickled. I entered the Fireflytalk podcast article-writing contest and won 3rd and 4th place. My articles were read last week (Episode 21) and this week (Episode 22), and in this week's article I shamelessly plugged my own video, this one. It was weird and cool to hear it read on the air. Go check out the podcasts if you haven't!
http://www.fireflytalk.com

Sandi (Fayleigh)

DREAMSOFTHESPIDER

Saturday, March 18, 2006 3:32 AM

there were some very awesome cuts on that! The flash as the music kicked in was sweet.

You definitely have an ear for the beats, which not a lot of vidders have, so props! However my complete enjoyment was spoiled by one thing (and I mean this in a constructive way so that you can make more and better vids!): the literal depiction of the lyrics.

I say this as a viewer of vids as well as an editor: it's annoying.

The vid had such potential, and I'm really sad that this is bothering me. To explain (and hopefully not sound arrogant or pretentious), song lyrics don't usually have the best story structure (unless it's a ballad), and a vid is essentially a little story. So in trying to match each lyric perfectly, the visual story is lost. Sometimes the stars align and the clips match the audio, but to do it for each and every stanza takes me out of the vid.

Song choice rocks, editing is spot on (except for a slipped clip near the end), it kinda floundered during the musical interlude, and I liked the bookends of the grainy sepia film.

Thanks for this first vid, and I hope it's not your last!

~Tzegha

ETA (rereading this, I really sound like a jackass. Sorry! I don't mean to. I'm trying to do that thing that I wish people would do to me, which is be honest and tell me how I can be better, but I'm usually too chickenshit to do it myself.)

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