my pop video project

[erilyn]

With many thanks to all those in fandom who share footage and photos, to glendaglamazon, withdiamonds, eponymous, marrymehowie, daisydust for encouragement, suggestions and clip help, and especially trumpeterofdoom for listening to me drone on about this more than any one person should have to, and for making many useful suggestions (which I didn't listen to enough).

The Joy of Pop
Why I love Nsync and Backstreet Boys - eighteen minutes of song, dance and extreme dorkitude.
+ avi - 113 meg
+ wmv - 40 meg

Backstory: About a third of those attending the fan gathering get__together in NZ were pop fans. I decided to try making something for us to watch, that hopefully other fans could enjoy watching too, even without knowing the groups or the context of footage. Mind you, I'd done virtually no video editing before, didn't have a clear idea of what I was making, didn't want it too slash focused (didn't want to exclude non RPS fans) and wanted to limit myself to reasonable quality footage, as where we were having the gathering has a bigass screen. Over the month or so that this project consumed my brain, I did question my sanity a fair bit, and my ideas on what I was making kept changing, so I'm not claiming I achieved these goals ;) But I'm reasonably satisfied with how it turned out.

While I was making it, glendaglamazon suggested I ask about the sparklecon footage party. withdiamonds and marrymehowie kindly accepted, and barring any issues (::crosses fingers and toes that the dvd works::), hopefully they will watch it this weekend at the party.

I put in and took out more clips than I ended up using (and struggled to keep it group-centric when it was turning into a Chris and Brian lovefest, I swear) and might ramble at length another time about the making of this (there are two things I had to do that I impressed myself with, though they really aren't that cool *g*). But for now I'll shut up!

I hope you enjoy, and would love to hear your reactions/thoughts on it :)

Comments

[bellamyrose.livejournal.com]

I love this so very muchly. Footage I hadn't seen before and a bunch of pretty boys all in one place. I had to squee when I heard your radio clip of Chris saying he was coming to Australia to hug you. The entire thing was just wonderful, and made me cherish them all even more than I already did

I do have a question about the footage you used. What appearances were it when Justin and JC are engaged and Chris got him pregnant, and the Joey loves Justin appearance?

Btw; what program did you use to do that, if you don't mind telling?

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much, I appreciate that :)

I've realised that I'll need make a big list of footage so people can find stuff they haven't seen before *g*. The first bit is from an interview they did in Japan, not sure of specifics, I got it from an Nsyncland dvd. The second is from Live at Much 2000.

The major editing work was done with Cyberlink PowerDirector, but I also used VirtualDub, WinAVI, Windows Movie Maker and Creative Wave Studio.

[bellamyrose.livejournal.com]

I'm sure a footage list would be much appreciated. I know I'd love to know where all of the clips came from. I think I already have most of them, but there were a few that I didn't recognize.

Thank you for the information on the editing software. I'll have to check into getting at least one of the programs listed. My mom asked me to make a memorial DVD for my dad, and I told her I would try.

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

For making something like (using what I listed), PowerDVD is what you'd want to look into. It's a good editing program, gets good reviews, you can use a wide variety of sources with it, but it's fairly straight forward to use, and not nearly as HUGE or expensive as something like Premiere.

I can't guarentee its the best thing in its price bracket, haven't looked lately, but it's solid.

VirtualDub is a free program, I can send you WinAVI (it's for converting files from one format to another), and any sound editing program would do (and would probably be better than mine, it's crap).