Vidding, vidding, random post

[starrylizard]

Vidding is kinda evil and kinda sexy - like Evil!Sam.
Hence the icon.

It's like this slightly highly addictive creative process, that sucks time and energy and valuable sleep (because I seem to be up until 3am getting that scene just right)and yet there's not much feedback for it. It's really just an evil yet enjoyable process. And I thought I had it bad when I was using WMM, but now I have Vegas it just takes me ten times longer to make a vid, because I keep thinking that I have the means to make it perfect when before I would have settled for "good enough."

Also, I can get 16 comments for a 100 word drabble. I get over 200 hits and downloads of a vid and hardly any comments. It's slightly disconcerting and I wonder if this is just the plight of vidders, or are my vids needing a lot of improvement. The plight, oh my...that sounds whiny! I don't mean it that way. :P

I do wish people would give con crit, but then I wish that for my fic too and it never happens there either.

Oh well, I think my vidding muse has taken a holiday at present - or I should say my vidding muse is still throwing ideas at me, but my will to vid is on the decline. Eh, it always comes back.

I started vidding Madonna's - Die another day. Next day, Yokiem's points me to MM's Heroes vid to the same song and a few days later someone posted a SPN vid and just the other day a CSI one -- all to the same song. *facepalm* Oh I am sooo unoriginal. I'm not watching them until I'm finished damnit.

*peers at her half-finished SPN vid*

Disclaimer: This has been a random comment, brought to you by Starrylizard's boredom.

Comments

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

Yeah maybe. It has the effect to make you wonder if your vid sucks sometimes. But I just keep reminding myself that I do it for my own fun and if it's not the case I shouldn't do it.

I have received a fair bit of positive feedback of late too. I think I'm just noticing it again, because I've been posting to filefront and it gives me all the dl stats

[smuffster.livejournal.com]

I get those kinds of stats from my webserver. Some of the covers I made during the 14 Valentines thing were getting nearly 1000 unique hits, yet I think the most comments I got was ike 15.

What I find really insulting is when you see someone reccing your work in their journal and gushing over it, but they never bother commenting in the first place. What, you can take a couple of minutes to post to your own journal, but not 30 seconds to comment to the creator?

[lark_ascends]

I have to agree with that. If it's someone on your flist, it's a little different as you'll see their rec, but someone else completely random - how are you meant to know that they recced it and therefore must have liked it?

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

Yeah, true. It happens a lot. If I rec something, even meta, I usually try to leave a comment saying I recced it if nothing else.