Amalthia's recs and fan works

It took me two hours!!!! to grab clips from just two episodes. I think when I get back from a b-day get together I'm going to. I'm going to have to prioritize or something and not just grab every pretty shot of the city I can find. Sure Atlantis has some awesome special effects and wonderful city shots but I can't just make a vid full of shots of the city like a tourist guide! grrrr

Um anyway, kind of got to re-watch Echos and Return 2...I think I need to move into season 2 because it doesn't seem fair to use clips from season 3 when there are a lot of people who don't have dsl or cable internet and can't download the newest episodes of SGA. (even though I really love some of what they've done in the later half of season 3.)

Last week and the rest of this weekend I finished ripping and encoding Supernatural season 1. I did this mainly because I could not find any logo-free versions of Supernatural anywhere and I figured maybe I'm not the only one out there that would like logo-free versions of Supernatural.

If anyone is interested in downloading the dvd encoded version of Supernatural season one here is the demonoid torrent link I'm not sure what other trackers to use...so this is what I stayed with.

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audio: 192 MPEG Layer 3
Frame Rate: 23 fps
Data Rate: 137
video sample size: 24 bit
video compression: XVID

Please update your bookmarks I've switched hosts for my Music Video Website to http://amalthia.mediawood.net/

This will hopefully be the last and final time I switch hosts.

Last night I started watching a Supernatural music video and I was enjoying the song, the clips were okay and then all of a sudden the characters were talking...and it wasn't like the Farscape music video Fix You where the words had meaning and it was just this one phrase and the way it was used made me cry. It was loud, obnoxious, and completely turned me off of the video. You tube link to vid

Um anyway the point is voice overs aren't bad, they are just badly used 99.9% of the time in vids, and I really think vidders should watch the music videos that have used voice overs effectively and decide if theirs is that good or not, and if it's not, remove their voice over because there is a good chance it's not needed. Technically, your vid should say something with the song/images not the characters talking.

I finally have a few minutes to sit down and collect my thoughts (and naturally I should have been in bed sleeping 10 minutes ago) This last weekend I went to San Angelo to visit my brother, he and his g/f of one year had broken up...that was a long, LONG, and VERY LONG road trip but it was nice to see my brother again.

on the writing front...I'm so tempted to write something for the sga_flashfic Bad Sex Challenge...there are so many things you can do with this type of challenge. :) I've already added it to my to-do list...though honestly it's been getting longer and longer and I only have one thing completed on it. I'm also sitting on this supernatural story idea with more plot than anything else. (I know I amaze myself sometimes too.) It hit me that I better write this story before I lose interest in the fandom or the story idea. And I actually would like my favorite SPN authors to maybe be interested in reading this story. I'll be honest...I do write for myself to some extent but 80% of the fun is finding out if your friends liked your story and talking about it afterwards. (this is just me, everyone writes for different reasons)

also on my mind...I found a song I think might be perfect for a doctor who video...I don't want to share it just yet because I don't want anyone else to make a vid to this song (okay I know I'm like a badfic writer afraid to share her ideas!) though I may need to talk with one of my vidding friends (okay maybe acquaintances by now. I feel like I've fallen off the face of the planet when it comes to talking with my online friends) um anyway...yeah I'm lame sometimes.

I'm now realizing I need to change the way I vid because I have a feeling I won't be vidding to just one fandom like I thought I would when I first started. I heard this song Save Yourself by Stabbing Westward a few years ago and it just hit me last week that this would also make a good Battlestar Galactica song to vid to...just need to figure out if I'm just going for action or if I want to tell some type of story.

However, in order to either write or vid I need to cut back on reading stories! :( that doesn't appeal to me in the least. grrrrrr

Okay today went much better than yesterday. Actually got to do something at work and time passed more quickly. Though, the shoes I wore today might as well go into the trash...the back of my ankles were killing me...anyway lesson learned try on the shoes before you decide to wear them to work.

On another note, I had a good time this evening. I saw another episode of Farscape "Hidden Memory." My husband and I are watching season 1-4 at the moment and we are just now getting through season 1. I love Farscape. It's still one of the best shows I've ever seen and even though I've seen all the episodes at least 2 times I still enjoy this series.

So after watching TV and eating some dinner, I went to the gym, did laundry, and now I'm getting ready for bed. I didn't really get a chance to read anything tonight but I plan to do some reading tomorrow...hopefully I won't get distracted by making cds for the car (it takes me about 45 minutes to drive to and from work I needed some new music) I'm also burning SGA DVD commentaries to CD-RW so I can listen to something other than music and it's a great way to catch up on all these commentaries I've downloaded.

Um that is about it for me tonight. If I don't get to bed soon I'll turn into a zombie at work tomorrow and I don't think caffeine will cure me. (I'm still happy about having a job, even though I'm not exactly happy with waking up to go to the job...however I'm not that enthusiastic about waking up even when I don't have work. Honestly, I love sleep, I think we should have 28 hour days so we'll have plenty of time to sleep and get other stuff done too)

Edit: I'm coming to realize I'm probably not going to finish the two videos for the Kawoosh music video challenge. I know I had six weeks to work on this but I really only found the music last week. :( I think I could finish 1 of the videos by the 16th...anyway tomorrow I'm going to work on the shorter of the two videos. (each song is about 2 minutes long...but the songs are kind of fast and I really don't want to share a hastily done video...I may just do the two videos and post them later even though they'll be too late for the challenge)

Vid Meme

Yesterday, I decided on further reflection to not enter the Writing Meme, mostly because I think I'm more sensitive about my writing. However, I don't feel the same way about my vids, for me this is still a new medium and I'd like to know what I'm doing wrong or right.

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