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This year one of my goals is learning to vid and I'm excited!

colls has given me some quality vidding advice and guidance and here is my awesome

vid_bingo card.

BAMF	guardian	friendship
happiness	FREE SPACE	sadness
character study	multifandom	recruitment

I have some ideas that are probably way too ambitious to start with so I'm going to try like 20 seconds in both iMovie and Adobe Premiere and see if I can figure out how they work and which I like. The latest song I've had on repeat is Save This City by Zayde Wolf which I feel really lends itself to Batman/Gotham (step into the darkness/if you're gonna save this city) but I don't care enough about Gotham and I don't think I have Batman Begins on streaming so maybe I'll try Daredevil. Matt Murdock certainly fits it too.

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franzeska

Yessss! Everyone should try vidding at least once!

FWIW, Premiere usually feels less intuitive for most people, but once you learn a few basics, it works great for simple vids... But it's also used professionally at the highest levels. It integrates much better with After Effects and Photoshop, which would be useful later on if you wanted to do more effects. I haven't used iMovie since many versions ago. I enjoyed cutting my first couple of vids on it, but I very quickly grew frustrated with its limitations.

So one has a moderately steeper learning curve but also a lot more room to grow.

From:

smilebackwards

Thank you for this info! I recently opened Premiere and almost immediately closed it, utterly intimidated. What could all the panels possibly be for?! I think I'll start with the much simpler looking iMovie and see if I can find some good tutorials on Premiere to grow into it!