Snowflake Challenge #8

[justanorthernlight]

Challenge #8

In your own space, celebrate a personal win from the past year: it can be a list of fanworks you're especially proud of, a gift of your time to the community, a quality or skill you cultivated in yourself, something you generally feel went well. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.



Vidding!

In 2021 I finally started posting vids! I had tried vidding before but had run into so many technical problems it didn't really go anywhere. I made 4 vids in 2021, 2 for Babylon 5 and 2 for Lord of the Rings.

• with no god attached was my first, Babylon 5 set to "Poor Atlas" by Dessa, about the mess the Vorlons left behind when they left.
• She's Not There (Babylon 5, Susan/Talia) was the idea that made me want to get into vidding like 10 years ago and I'm so proud I finally finished it.
• a better place (since you came along) (LOTR, ensemble fluff) This one is kind of hard to quantify, I made it shortly after my dad died. Making it was extremely cathartic, and it's one of my first creative endeavors where I don't really care what other people think about it or even whether the finished product is technically good, making it was its own reward/end. I view it as the vid equivalent of extremely self-indulgent hurt/comfort.
• Odds Are (also LOTR, a variety of ships and non-ship related material) is probably my most technically polished vid.

In non-vidding things I'm proud of, I (mostly) finished writing a sleep tracking app for people with Non-24-Hour Sleep-Wake Disorder (of which I am one), that calculates the user's average sleep delay and then calculates likely sleep/wake times in the future. The only step left on it is compiling it into the executable that runs on a phone, which I had some technical difficulties with and need to give another go.

I'm also going back to college. I applied and was accepted to an online bachelor's degree program through my state university system and it's flexible enough to accommodate my sleep disorder. I'm registered for classes and start in February!

Comments

[spikedluv]

Such awesome things! It's great that you started vidding and that you created an app! Congrats on going back to college!

[justanorthernlight]

Thank you!

[razielim]

Editing video is hard! Congrats on getting over that hurdle and getting vids out there - I enjoyed watching for the themes, they're very polished. :)

[justanorthernlight]

Thank you!

[muccamukk]

That sleep wake ap sounds really useful. I hope you get it going on your phone.

[justanorthernlight]

Thanks! I've had the predictions part working as a command line program since early summer, it's been a great tool for me, now to make it more streamlined to run!

[kingstoken]

Congrats on learning to vid! It can be very rewarding to see your vids coming together. I didn't watch any of your vids, because I am hoping to maybe someday get around to watching Babylon 5.

[justanorthernlight]

Thanks, Babylon 5 is one of my favorite shows ever, I always love seeing new people give it a try :)

[tsuki_no_bara]

i loved those two lotr vids. and as someone who just does not have the patience to learn to vid and then find all the right clips, i'm beyond impressed that you finished and posted four. also, good on you for going back to school! good luck!

[justanorthernlight]

Thank you! For me the clipping is the tedious part, so I am trying to get it out of the way before the actual vidding part happens... at that point to me arranging the clips is like assembling a jigsaw puzzle :)

[corvidology]

Yay to making and posting vids and to going back to college! \o/

[justanorthernlight]

Thank you, it's all so exciting!

[svgurl]

Ooh, vidding! That is awesome that you learned and made vids too. The app also sounds great and I hope you're able to get it to work on a phone. Congrats on both of those as well applying and being accepted into college. Best of luck when you start! :D

[justanorthernlight]

Thank you :)

[hamsterwoman]

Vids are just like black magic to me -- I can't even imagine how all the work involved in selecting all the footage and putting it together with a song comes together -- and it was really neat to watch vids for two canons I know and love so much. I especially loved the LotR ensemble fluff one -- it works beautifully for that cast of characters!

[justanorthernlight]

Thank you so much <3

For smaller canons like the LOTR movies I've started just chopping each movie up into its constituent scenes and adding the whole thing to my editor, it greatly streamlines the process!