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Hi! I really loved your Nirvana in Fire vid, it was PERFECT and EMOTIONAL and *chef's kiss* aaaAAAAAA. Do you have any advice, recs, or tutorials for anyone who's looking to get started on vidding?

Thank you very much, I'm very happy to hear that! <3 I can't really give vidding advice since I'm still new to it and know too little, but here are some things that worked for me: 1) If you're working with lyrics and you don't have to translate anything, lay down the subtitle track first. I used to add subtitles last, but I found that if I added them first, I could see them on the timeline which made it easier to drag/align video clips to the right place. 2) If you're using someone else's translation, it's good form to credit them (and, if possible, link them to your vid after—I’m sure they will appreciate seeing their work on yours). 3) You can also vid on your phone these days, I’m just sadly not up to date with apps. I use InShot (free, with ads) to sub/compile short clips. (It also allows you to upload your own fonts, though I haven’t tried that.)

Recs/Tutorials

Youtube has a lot of free tutorials, just search "[program] + [effect]". XD Sorry if this isn’t helpful, but this is genuinely what I do. If it’s a complex program, I recommend watching a tutorial/walk-through for the kind of video you want to do without trying to follow it, just to get an overview of the interface/controls you want to use. Idk what program you're using or are planning to use, but if you're looking for recs for a program that is both free AND powerful, I AM recommending DaVinci Resolve, which is what I'm using now! The downside is that it doesn't quite look like Adobe or work quite like Adobe, and there may be fewer step-by-step tutorials to achieve specific effects, but if you're just looking to edit video/audio clips together and add a text or subtitle track, it will do the job perfectly! Coloring can also be done with Curves, as you do with Photoshop, you just have to... find the controls...... (that's what Youtube is for XD) (The Coloring tab in DVR is actually very powerful, but a lot of it is technical/professional-level; I stick to the Curves because it’s familiar and good enough for the adjustments I want to make.)

DaVinci Resolve also gives you a surprising amount of control with type/text, but:

a) I am still trying to figure it out (if it allows me to use OpenType features or enable/disable ligatures, I haven’t found those options yet. ALSO, for SOME REASON, the fonts that are available to me to use when I use Text tool vs Text+ tool are different, which is a mystery for another day).

b) It’s not intuitive or beginner-friendly. I definitely did not find the gradient/glow options on DVR until my fourth vid (the latest Nirvana in Fire one) lol. But it’s possible. (As a disclaimer, I’ve been self-learning graphics programs since my early teens so I’m pretty used to finding and figuring out the features I want to use in a program.)

tl;dr

DaVinci Resolve (what I use) PROS & CONS:

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(+) PROS:

Free!

Can do all the basic things AND MORE!

Easy to add audio/video tracks, subtitle tracks, basic text/title tracks

Has an entire Coloring tab (you can use Curves and ignore the more technical controls). It’s not as easy to find at first but it’s also less overwhelming (for me) to see it as a separate process that I can tab in and out of.

You can prettify your text (with difficulty).

You can make text move, fairly easily.

(-) CONS:

Layout/interface is confusing, esp. if it’s your 1st video-editing program.

Fewer resources/tutorials compared to Adobe.

Adding visual effects like gradient/shadow/glow to text is definitely harder AND you still have less control over text, compared to Adobe.

OpenType support is dicey.

Might require more processing power (every now and then the program crashes for me).

I may just be bad at this program, but unless you pre-cut the video clips you want to use—and I don’t, because I’m lazy—and then fiddle a bit with the settings and render your clip library, the playback/preview for your vid gets really laggy with every transition and effect that you add. Not sure if this is true for all video editing programs!

OTHER programs I’ve heard were good for vidding but have not personally tried:

1) Adobe Premiere (Pro???) - USER-FRIENDLY, powerful, tons of tutorials for both basic features and for special effects that they make easy for you. It probably lets you do a lot of fancy type things too. If you have experience with Photoshop or any image-editing program, Adobe products have a lot of the same controls, so they’re easier to pick up.

2) Hitfilm - I have no idea what this is, but a friend of mine mentioned it to me once (she hasn’t used it either) XD

The best thing to do is to jump right in, really! I’ve been enjoying vidding because working with audio and timing keeps me stimulated (whereas gif-ing is purely visual and harder for me to focus on). Good luck, have fun! FINAL DISCLAIMER: I’ve only done 4 or so fanvids, and I only started this year and used that one program (and AfterEffects, once), so please take everything I say with a grain of salt lol.

#replies #omg i'm so sorry for this wall of too much not-very-useful information #i've bolded my recs!!!!!!!!!!

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