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Rating: gen
Length: 2:54
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Flummery
Theme: fanvids, meta, pre-AO3 fanworks, old fandoms
Summary: The more things change...
Reccer's Notes: This is a vid about vidding. It's about the history of vidding, and it's about what vidders do: construct realities in defiance of the powers that be in Hollywood who want complete control over how people watch their shows and interact with them (and certainly don't want people copying bits to use as part of their own art).
To really get this vid, you have to understand the history of vidding. The first vids were literally slide shows: slides, in projectors, advanced in time with the music. I recced one such vid (Both Sides Now by Kandy Fong) earlier this month, and if you're sharp-eyed you'll see a clip of that vid in this vid. Then came VCRs, and in order to vid you needed a dual-editing machine, i.e. one with two tape decks that you could record from one VHS tape onto another. Vidders would work together to plan out how long each clip needed to be and exactly what time code it would stop and start, then would record the whole thing onto the master tape clip by clip using stopwatches. (And stopping and starting didn't happen instantaneously; the tape would rock forward a few frames past where you stopped it, so you had to know your machine very well to compensate for that. Oh, and magnetic tape degrades as it gets re-recorded over; if you messed up one clip and didn't start over from scratch, it would be noticeable.) One of the main vidding collectives of this era, the California Crew, once filmed themselves making a fanvid and then made that footage into a vid to "Pressure by Billy Joel." (ETA: I have been informed that Pressure is available online!) "Pressure" is included in this vid, when they transition from film to TV; when you see the hands and the stopwatch, that's it. After that came computer editing, which is still used today (though of course programs and specific hardware change constantly). The vid used to start this section is Dante's Prayer, which I've already recced this month. And then, at the end, the llamas: llamas were the mascots of Vividcon (2002-2018), the premiere vidding-focused convention in the US, which made llamas the symbol of vidding and vidders for many US vid creators.
Fanwork Links: Walking on the Ground
Meta post about the making of the vid and the meaning of the clips
Pairings/Characters:
Rating: gen
Length: 2:54
Creator Links:
flummery, Theme: fanvids, meta, pre-AO3 fanworks, old fandoms
Summary: The more things change...
Reccer's Notes: This is a vid about vidding. It's about the history of vidding, and it's about what vidders do: construct realities in defiance of the powers that be in Hollywood who want complete control over how people watch their shows and interact with them (and certainly don't want people copying bits to use as part of their own art).
To really get this vid, you have to understand the history of vidding. The first vids were literally slide shows: slides, in projectors, advanced in time with the music. I recced one such vid (Both Sides Now by Kandy Fong) earlier this month, and if you're sharp-eyed you'll see a clip of that vid in this vid. Then came VCRs, and in order to vid you needed a dual-editing machine, i.e. one with two tape decks that you could record from one VHS tape onto another. Vidders would work together to plan out how long each clip needed to be and exactly what time code it would stop and start, then would record the whole thing onto the master tape clip by clip using stopwatches. (And stopping and starting didn't happen instantaneously; the tape would rock forward a few frames past where you stopped it, so you had to know your machine very well to compensate for that. Oh, and magnetic tape degrades as it gets re-recorded over; if you messed up one clip and didn't start over from scratch, it would be noticeable.) One of the main vidding collectives of this era, the California Crew, once filmed themselves making a fanvid and then made that footage into a vid to "Pressure by Billy Joel." (ETA: I have been informed that Pressure is available online!) "Pressure" is included in this vid, when they transition from film to TV; when you see the hands and the stopwatch, that's it. After that came computer editing, which is still used today (though of course programs and specific hardware change constantly). The vid used to start this section is Dante's Prayer, which I've already recced this month. And then, at the end, the llamas: llamas were the mascots of Vividcon (2002-2018), the premiere vidding-focused convention in the US, which made llamas the symbol of vidding and vidders for many US vid creators.
Fanwork Links: Walking on the Ground
Meta post about the making of the vid and the meaning of the clips
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