I'm still in the process of slowly turning all the videos SiDiC Music Videos has made from 1994 to 2009 into QuickTime files. I managed to convert the three "year 2000" SiDiC vids from the MediaWest*Con 20 vid competition and get them uploaded to YouTube this evening. This was the first year I used a computer for editing -- in other words, the first year the visual quality was finally pretty good, though I was still getting a handle on the whole editing thing.

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This is by far my most ambitious songvid to date, using source footage from the 1940s in addition to that of Doctor Who and Torchwood, and cut to the fastest song in the world. OMG.

The driving force behind this was pretty much that I wanted Jack to have an adventure in the 1940s, so I built a constructed reality in order to give it to him. There are some more notes in the vid post, if you're interested. Otherwise, here's the masterpiece! I hope you enjoy it as much as I have. :)


Title: 1941: The Year That Never Was!
Vidder: cupidsbow
Fandom: Torchwood and Doctor Who
Pairing: Jack/Tosh, Jack/realJack, Jack/Tosh/realJack
Rating: PG-13
Music: "Sing, Sing, Sing" by Benny Goodman (1987 remaster)
Summary: What if Jack had never met the Doctor?

Link: Both streaming and download available here.

I cannot get my Saw III DVD to rip in either DVD Decrypter or DVD Shrink. It plays fine and I didn't have any trouble ripping Saw or Saw II. Anyone else have this problem?

Title: Nicotine
Artist: Saving Jane
Vidder: Nicole
Genre: Romance/angst
Pairing: Lara Croft/Kurtis Trent
Warnings: Smoking
Fandom: Tomb Raider
Vidders Notes: I'm quite pleased with this vid. I tried something new. I used comic book images along with the actual game cutscenes. It was interesting to play with and harder than i expected. I hope the result looks good to others.
Clips: Angel of Darkness game and comics
Summary: "Do You want me, Like nicotine?"
Format: WMV

find the vid here

I'd appreciate if you left any feedback on my LJ instead of all the comm's I've crossposted too thankies :)

My first two vids:

Title: Footloose
Vidder: china_shop
Fandom: White Collar
Source: White Collar and The Middleman
Song: "Footloose" by Kenny Loggins
Genre/Pairing: as gen as the show (i.e. contains traces of het and slash)
Spoilers: Up to 1.07

Embedded and downloadable here.


Title: Overlap
Vidder: china_shop
Fandom: White Collar
Song: "Overlap" by Ani DiFranco
Genre/Pairing: Neal/Peter (slash)
Spoilers: Up to 1.07

Embedded and downloadable here.

Vidder: Loki
Fandom: Supernatural
Title: The Fallen In The War
Song: Earthman
Artist: Poets and Pornstars
Warnings: spoilers up to 5x10
Category: general\themed montage
Characters/Pairings: Dean, Sam, ensemble
Summary: "We're the fallen in the war, We're the bullets and the law. We're the kiss of love that heals it all"
Links: here at graphicinmotion

Title: Book of Days
Edited by: kaydeefalls
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters: Companions et al (Rose, Martha, Donna, Astrid, Lady Christina...)
Music: "Book of Days" by Enya
Summary: A journal of incredible women. Doctor who?
Notes: spoilers through "Planet of the Dead"

Embed + download links here

Fandom: Kamen Rider, Sentai, Power Rangers
Vidder: 1aurien / heropower
Song: "I Will Not Bow"
Artist: Breaking Benjamin
Genre: Drama, Action
Rating: PG
Summary: A tribute to the toku heroes of 2009.

I WILL NOT BOW

Vid Title:Slayer Academy
Song and Artist: Go Ahead by Fireflight
Fandom: Original story set in Buffy's universe.
Characters: Faith/others
Length: 1:05
Warnings (including spoilers): None.
Summary: Set in Buffy's universe. Basically some years after all the slayers had awaken an academy is opened to train them.

Link: Youtube (HD)

Title: Fireflies
Song Artist: Owl City
Fandom: Up & "Dug's Special Mission"
Character: Dug the Dog
Summary: Dug dreams.

Downloading and streaming instructions at my journal here.

Title: First Aid
Vidder: cupidsbow
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairing: Jack/Ianto
Rating: PG-13
Music: "I Touch Myself" by Divinyls
Summary: Jack has a first-aid fetish... or maybe just an Ianto fetish.
Note: This was inspired by Hope's awesome story, "First Aid" (NC-17, linked below).

Links: the songvid by cupidsbow, the story by Hope.

Title: One Week
Artist: Barenaked Ladies

Fandom: Primeval

Focus: Nick Cutter/Stephen Hart

Summary: "It's been one week since you looked at me."

Spoilers through episode 2.07

Download links and additional notes over here.

Fandom: Star Wars
Song/Artist: "Man of La Mancha Medley" by Scott Bakula
Summary: A Luke centric vid
Link: http://rapidshare.com/files/326731407/I_Am_I_0001.wmv.html when the link expires just let me know and I'll upload a new one

Title: Soldiering
Fandom: Dreamland
Artist: David Usher
Length/Size: 00:37, 7.28 MBs
Summary: A short vidlet about Audrey's agoraphobic father, played by John Corbett.
Notes: The second part of my get-back-to-vidding challenge with mistojen.
download & streaming at my new vid/art community stupid_happy

Hi everyone,

I've been vidding with Sony Vegas for about 7 years, since it was called Screenblast, although not so much recently due to RL distractions. I'm currently using Vegas Movie Studio 9. Up until now I've only ever used DVD source or files from iStock photo, both of which I could edit directly without converting to another format. However I've recently become infatuated with a new show and find myself in the unfamiliar territory of wanting to vid with downloaded avi files, which I believe are Xvid encoded.

Now, I am not used to working with full episodes, and find that they cause a lot of clutter in the timeline, so I want to just pick out the scenes of each ep I want to work with, convert them into a more edit-friendly format, and then import those to make my vid.

This is where I run into problems... I have ffdshow on my computer so Vegas accepts the Xvid files just fine, however when I render them, they are horribly interlaced. I've tried every output option available to me (short of fiddling with the advanced settings because I don't know what I'm doing with them) and the only ones that seem to work with nice, clear, good quality results are .rm (which I can't import for editing) or totally uncompressed, which looks brilliant but 2 minutes of footage comes out as a 1GB file.

So I was wondering if perhaps someone could offer me some guidance as to the best way to convert my .avi files into something Vegas friendly that looks the same quality as the source file. I've downloaded Mpeg Streamclip but have no idea how to use it or what output to choose. All suggestions most gratefully accepted!

Title: Into The Water
Song: "The Captain and Hourglass" by Laura Marling
Source: The Lord of the Rings
Description: Well I fell into the water, / and now I'm free. Frodo's journey, and the weight of the world.

Streaming and download link at my journal.

Title: Moth's Wings
Music: "Moth's Wings" by Passion Pit
Subject: Merlin/Arthur, Merlin series 1
Length: 4:16
Summary: Put down your sword and crown/ come lay with me on the ground. A genesis story.
Notes: Spoilers for the entire first series. Further notes, lyrics, and streaming video at my journal.

Vid Title - Farewell Desperado
Music - Desperado (The Reprise)
Performed by - The Eagles
Edited by - Ellie P Dowd
Summary - A tribute to the brave Harvelle women - Ellen and Jo - who kept the Winchester men on their toes and touched their hearts.

More details, download and streaming links at my journal - Please click