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naby64
Made 5000, now what?
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MelissaRS
StuckOnPeas
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It's okay! Getting one done in an hour would be a big deal for me! And, remember, these girls probably have it all planned out, with stuff nearby making it a quicker process.
Speaking of videos, I rarely watch them, but tried to in the last couple of days. On my computer at work during lunch, then again on my Nook, the videos I was trying to watch from various people would just stop, stick, go again for a second, stop, stick. Very frustrating and had to end watching both I tried. Is that unusual?
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Duchess of Stuff
StuckOnPeas
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December 2009
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An Hour??
It takes me that long to do a few lines of journaling. If I don't do that I am still hours in before I am finished. I bow down to you "Oh Speedy One"  |
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naby64
Made 5000, now what?
PeaNut 180,263
December 2004
Posts: 7,597
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Loc: Arkansas
| Posted: 3/1/2013 9:02:19 AM
the videos I was trying to watch from various people would just stop, stick, go again for a second, stop, stick. Very frustrating and had to end watching both I tried. Is that unusual?
I am normally watching on my Nook tablet and I have had this happen. BUT I also have very slow internet and assume it is a buffering/loading issue. What I will usually do is get one started and immediately hit pause. Let the little silver line get out a ways and then start. I then don't seem to have a problem with any. When I am at work using their internet, no problems at all. Zooms right along!
I bow down to you "Oh Speedy One
Please get up, don't want your skirts getting dirty!! An hour for my LO is one that I have thought out and know papers/pics that I want to use that is a spare LO. If I want to get fancy and spruce it up then I am looking at a longer time. There are just some days where I want to just get out there and get some pages done. Pictures down, memories recorded. Those are the 45 min. - 1 hr pages. |
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susanlk
AncestralPea
PeaNut 124,443
January 2004
Posts: 4,004
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Loc: Central PeA
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Now here is my hate. I watch them(all various ladies) and then when I sit down to scrap I think I should be able to get my LO done in about 13-24 minutes. After all, they all get theirs done in that time. Right?!?!? If I could just figure out how to double or triple my speed time as I whip out my paper trimmer, embellies, several pages of PP, etc.
Most of the ones I watch "seem" like they scrap quickly, but then I have to remind myself that they speed up their video. So unless they say how long the layout took them, you just never know. It surprises me when I watch a 20 minute video & they mention the layout took them 1.5 hours or was done over several days. That usually puts me back into reality. |
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Miss Kathy
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April 2007
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I just watched one of Lilith's videoa titled a 40 minute layout but the video was only about 9 minutes long. Wish I could speed myself up that much! | |
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Miss Kathy
PeaNut
PeaNut 309,431
April 2007
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| Posted: 3/1/2013 9:16:04 AM
I just watched one of Lilith's videoa titled a 40 minute layout but the video was only about 9 minutes long. Wish I could speed myself up that much! | |
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JenGallacher
Garden Girl
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September 2002
Posts: 14,211
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Loc: Utah
| Posted: 3/1/2013 9:16:52 AM
Ha, ha, ha! This totally cracked me up.
I prep my video for several hours before actually filming it. I set everything on the page I think I will use, photograph it and then put it together on camera. No one really gets their pages done that quickly. I WISH!  |
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Dancingfish
Ancient Ancestor of Pea
PeaNut 51,456
October 2002
Posts: 14,094
Layouts: 83
Loc: VA
| Posted: 3/1/2013 9:23:15 AM
What you don't do layouts in 9 min????? lol
I agree!! we need a switch that allows US to move faster! tee hee hee |
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*kaleidoscope*
Leader of the Banned
PeaNut 52,171
October 2002
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Loc: Froogville
| Posted: 3/1/2013 10:10:44 AM
You know what drives me nuts about some of them? The ones that talk way too much and drone on and on. Get to the damn point of the video!  |
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MelissaRS
StuckOnPeas
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September 2002
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| Posted: 3/1/2013 10:21:27 AM
Thank you for the tip on getting the video to play better! Appreciate it.
And, yes, in the few videos I watched, if there's too much chitter chatter and showing the same piece over and over, I'll just turn it off. Love the girls that fast-forward some of their video - thank you! |
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tiffanyo
BucketHead
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| Posted: 3/1/2013 10:48:13 AM
I really like when they drone on and on, personally  . But I am a chatty Kathy myself and I love to hear the thought process. I tried to do a process video this week with no pre planning and it was pretty much a disaster so I am glad to hear that the "pros" don't just have everything come together so easily! | |
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summerbellies
Drama Pea
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February 2003
Posts: 10,215
Layouts: 160
Loc: Pea-ing from Orlando, Fl.
| Posted: 3/1/2013 12:45:22 PM
Lol!!!! I think that same thing is what spurred my post last night about being a slow scrapper!
Sometimes in Mercytiaras vids she will mention the actual length it took to do the lo and that makes me feel a *bit* better. |
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desdichaedo
PeaAddict
PeaNut 311,175
April 2007
Posts: 1,294
Layouts: 20
Loc: Miami {the one in Florida, not the one in Oklahoma}
| Posted: 3/1/2013 1:15:17 PM
If only I could actually make a layout in an hour or less - 15 minutes would be a dream come true! It takes me about 2-3 hours, sometimes over multiple days, to get a typical 12" x 12" layout scrapped. That does not include photo processing or printing.
The average 15 minute video can easily take me eight hours, over the course of two or three days to put together. There's actually doing the layout & filming it. Then there's compressing the video & saving it to the hard drive, which takes almost as long as filming it in the first place (1080p video files are HUGE). After that, they get loaded into my video editing software, where they have to be conformed to Adobe's format - that takes more time. Then I go through and make all my cuts, which takes at least as long as filming does (I have to watch all the footage again & make decisions). Once that's done, I add effects, transitions, speed up segments, etc. Then I record and add the narration. Now the video is ready to upload (another 45 minutes at least), plus write a description, add tags, etc.
The whole reason I wrote all that out was just to say that process videos are basically all lies!!! I am NOT a fast scrapper, and I probably spend way more time per layout than I should, and that you should NEVER EVER believe anything you see on TV because editors play tricks on you!
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simplycheri
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May 2008
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 | Posted: 3/1/2013 1:24:07 PM
I actually like the ones that they talk through the process rather than the videos that with no audio. I also watch before bed on my tablet..relaxes me.
One gal indicates it takes her 45 min to an hour to do the page but her video is less than half that after she edits it an speeds it up a bit.
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krispin41
PeaFixture
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July 2003
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| Posted: 3/1/2013 1:34:26 PM
I actually don't like videos. Unless, it's for a specific technique (like loading my ATG gun, LOL.) I prefer looking at pictures of things. |
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naby64
Made 5000, now what?
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December 2004
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summerbellies
Drama Pea
PeaNut 70,463
February 2003
Posts: 10,215
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Loc: Pea-ing from Orlando, Fl.
| Posted: 3/1/2013 2:01:15 PM
Simplycheri I'm with you- I love the vids where they talk about their process rather than just set to music. I like knowing where their heads were at when using a specific product or technique because it gives me an idea of the different ways things can be done. I've actually picked up quite a few tricks from watching Shimelle, Lillith Eckels and Tracy Banks' process videos. |
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Paisleys Garden
StuckOnPeas
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April 2010
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| Posted: 3/1/2013 2:38:48 PM
Get to the damn point of the video!
Exactly! The 5 minutes intro and you know it's going to be a long one. I usually mute it and click ahead. | |
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artist-ju
PeaNut
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April 2007
Posts: 348
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Loc: saskatchewan ,canada
| Posted: 3/1/2013 3:26:33 PM
I find this interesting, I tape videos but have to do a lot of editing to get it down to the 15 min requirement YouTube has. I think you're being too hard on yourself because what you see may in video time take 15 min but most videos don't show the errors, the thinking process and so on. Some who have a straight forward method and have been doing it for a long time may actually do their layouts in that amount of time because of experience in knowing how to get what's in their head down onto a layout with relative ease but I have to say for me the thinking process can take up to several days or lots of trial and error |
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desdichaedo
PeaAddict
PeaNut 311,175
April 2007
Posts: 1,294
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Loc: Miami {the one in Florida, not the one in Oklahoma}
| Posted: 3/1/2013 3:49:25 PM
Just a dream of mine to get out to the scraphouse and get 6-8 pages done. Waltz back into the house and show off the work and put it into albums. Real story is more that I get 2-3 hours in my little house, 1, maybe 2, LOs done. Grumpily stop in the middle of a page and get inside to get dinner done and then too tired to head out and finish.
This is a great dream - I want to go to this magical place, too! While we're dreaming, can dinner cook itself while we churn out our show-stopping fifteen minute layouts?
Because that would be super awesome! |
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Leader of the Banned
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October 2002
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Loc: Froogville
| Posted: 3/1/2013 4:11:32 PM
Simplycheri I'm with you- I love the vids where they talk about their process rather than just set to music.
I'm not referring to simple talking about what you're doing. I mean the babbling that really isn't necessary. When it takes 5 minutes before you even START really getting into the project your video is supposed to be about. |
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paperpilekitten
StuckOnPeas
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December 2003
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Loc: Stockholm, Sweden
| Posted: 3/1/2013 5:40:36 PM
Most of those video projects are thoroughly prepared for hours beforehand, and then edited after shooting the actual video. 
It's a bit like lightly retouching the photos of a top model for a fashion magazine - granted, those girls are both gorgeous and skilled at their profession, but they are not quite as heavenly perfect in reality as they appear on the cover of Vogue.
So, don't expect to look like a top model on a fashion magazine cover and don't expect to scrap like the popular YouTube video stars. Nobody does, not even they themselves.
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mercytiara
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July 2009
Posts: 248
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Loc: Halifax, NS, Canada
| Posted: 3/1/2013 8:22:57 PM
If I could just figure out how to double or triple my speed time as I whip out my paper trimmer, embellies, several pages of PP, etc.
Lol, I actually speed mine up 8times! Almost all of my layouts take around 2 hours (although I scrap much much slower than that when I'm not using a kit). If it takes much more or much less I try to remember to mention it, but I often forget. It's very misleading, and I always find my raw video footage (pre-fast forwarded) to be shockingly slow.
I actually do no prep work at all for my videos. I sit down, and sometimes I don't even have pictures picked out. It all just comes together as I scrapbook, and that is what I love about the process of scrapbooking- having ideas form right as I'm working. I do very little editing, although I wish I could spend more time making it look pretty and smooth.. The majority of the video-making time consists of downloading from my camera to the computer, converting it to QuickTime,and uploading. But all these things take care of themselves once I get them started, so it doesn't take very long to get my videos created. Mine take about a week to go from taped, to onto my computer, to narrated and edited, to converted and uploaded. But that's because I also have a full time job and 2 kids.
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tiffanyo
BucketHead
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June 2012
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| Posted: 3/1/2013 8:40:55 PM
Tracy, thanks for posting that! Your videos are my favorite for that very reason. I love watching you sort through paper, grab your die cuts, squeeze in the last bit of journaling. It is more fun to witness that whole creative process but it also helps me to see that I love the finished product even if it isn't exactly perfect.
I love all the process videos I have seen, but I prefer less editing I guess. Though sped up is good if it is two hours at normal speed !
That is easy for me to say though because I am a SAHM with a five month old and I watch while we play during the day so my video time isn't as limited as some. | |
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katiescott
What can I post about?
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January 2009
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Loc: Sunny Florida
 | Posted: 3/1/2013 9:29:26 PM
I used to make a lot of process layouts on ustream and I would just press play on my video recorder without any plan at all. In real life I scrap a page anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour - but scrapbooking while video taping usually slowed me down a bit because I spent a lot of time talking.
Here's a link to an example of my "Just Press Play" improv-scrapbooking:
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/25690541 |
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Nanna2Five
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