Fanvid: "Grapevine Fires" (Star Trek)

[skywaterblue]

I couldn't think, of anywhere I would have rather been, to watch it all, burn away...

Fandom: pan-Star Trek (movies, 24th Century Prime timeline)
Characters: Spock, Kirk, Picard, Sisko, Janeway...
Song: "Grapevine Fires" by Death Cab for Cutie
Length: 4:19
Downloads: 60.6 mbs in .mpg / 76 mbs in .avi (best)

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Star Trek - death, rebirth, death again.

It took almost nine months to make, though I did scrap a first draft when I switched from Premier Pro to Sony Vegas. I could have made a human being in that time. Special thanks to sarken who I forced to watch, cheerlead, and suggest Voyager clips where my knowledge ran dry. Couldn't have done it without her.

This video may seem like I'm deeply ambivalent about the new canon - I am not. Overall I appreciate the effort made by the Supreme Court of Bad Robot to ensure that the Trek I grew up with still 'happened' and matters. That said, I feel a deep sense of finality and regret about the movie: in redefining Star Trek to only be about the original crew, we're both saying goodbye to all the other characters and their journeys, and in some ways limiting the palette of what Star Trek can be about to the mass audience.

Here's to the journey, though! The Undiscovered Country! There really is no place I would have rather been, to watch it all burn away.

Comments

[skywaterblue]

Yeah. Like I said, I appreciate that the new guys went to SO much effort to preserve as much of the continuity as they could. I think it was clever, and thoughtful of them.

Even though I've known for a really long time we'd never see Sisko on screen again, it still wounds me to think that the 24th Century of the new Trek won't be MY 24th Century. No Khitomer treaty with Curzon drinking it up with Klingons, no Dominion War at Bajor's back, no Picard assimilated and then traumatized by the Borg. It still exists, of course, but only in the memory, sleeping.

The cut to the mind meld with Picard? PERFECTLY chosen. I really did not expect it.

I CANNOT BELIEVE I was the first person to do it. I held my breath every time someone posted a pan-Trek vid for nine months because I was just so sure someone else would get there and do it better.

Oh- and I don't know enough about vidding tech to know how you did it, but you made the very different production values/look-and-feels of the different shows/movies really *feel* like they belonged on a screen together, where in other vids the differences can seem jarring.

DVD-quality rips. It turns out that if you get proper rips of the original films, they're basically already in the same aspect ratio of the new movie - with some tiny fudging. Getting the TV series-es to look that good was a slightly more involved prospect that basically involved doing the math on the ratio and then individual cropping and adjusting on each scene.

Which was all technically easier for me in Sony as it uses .avi as a native format rather than Premier, which has an .avi antipathy. Though I still have NO idea how to do anything more advanced than this in Sony Vegas, alas.

Also fortunate is the fact that Paramount has always filmed Star Trek ON FILM and not on upgraded television stock tapes. This means that they've remastered all the really scuzzy looking TNG episodes recently - though chronologically, the video doesn't actually use many clips from the worst seasons. As the worst seasons are also not very good.