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Vid Title: Invincible
Vidders: [personal profile] echan and [personal profile] jetpack_monkey
Length: 03:33
Song: Pat Benatar - Invincible
Source: Tank Girl (1994)
Warnings: Some super-quick clips, violence, Ice-T as a giant kangaroo-man.

Summary: We will be invincible.

Password: rippers


Download: 32.8MB MP4 file (right/ctrl-click, "Save link as...")

Notes: This is not a new vid. I made it between December 2010 and March 2011, in collaboration with my spouse [personal profile] echan. It was a Christmas present (ultimately belated) for my sister, whose favorite movie of all time is Tank Girl.

This was an incredibly difficult vid to make. I had just moved to Los Angeles and my laptop crashed. I had it fixed, but Final Cut no longer recognized my hardware and asked for the license key (which was in a box in Phoenix still). So I had to download the thirty day free trial of Premiere, a program which barely worked on my laptop. I started the vid there, but was struggling (partially with the slowness of the program, partially with the new workflow, but mostly with the realization that I wasn't a big fan of Tank Girl). Thankfully, echan came in and laid down the basic structure of the vid. Eventually the thirty day trial expired and I was able to get Final Cut up and running again, so I had to lay down an export of my Premiere project into Final Cut and then tweaked and poked at it until it was in final form.

The end result is not something I'm completely satisfied with (even though my sister adores it), so I held off on releasing it properly (it does show up on the 2011 Apocalypse West reel). However, with the launch of my new vidding website, I decided to just post the damn thing. Even if it's not my best vid, there's some good parts in it and I know that a lot of my friends love Tank Girl. So here you go!

Date: 2012-09-11 08:54 pm (UTC)
laurashapiro: a woman sits at a kitchen table reading a book, cup of tea in hand. Table has a sliced apple and teapot. A cat looks on. (Default)
From: [personal profile] laurashapiro
OMG YOU VIDDED TANK GIRL!!!

Why am I at work right now? ::cries::

Date: 2012-09-12 01:11 am (UTC)
laurashapiro: happy Chiana (yay!)
From: [personal profile] laurashapiro
Well, that was worth waiting for! It's everything I ever could have wanted from a Tank Girl vid. SO SATISFYING. I love that you used so much of the animation, and gave an eyebrow-waggle to the slash. (:

Date: 2012-09-11 10:17 pm (UTC)
goodbyebird: Batman returns: Catwoman seen through a glass window. (Buffy Faith you think we'd go for tea?)
From: [personal profile] goodbyebird
hah this was great fun :D

Date: 2012-09-11 11:33 pm (UTC)
colls: (BSG PCvMAC)
From: [personal profile] colls
YAY!!! TANK GIRL! <33
Tank Girl was on my festivids list last year, so I FEEL LIKE IT'S A WISH COME TRUE or something. Ha!

I think it's awesome and you've done some very nice editing in there.

Date: 2012-09-12 06:05 pm (UTC)
franzeska: (Default)
From: [personal profile] franzeska
Sorry I disappeared. My parents' sucky router sometimes cuts out in the middle of the night and I can't get at it without waking them up.

Date: 2012-09-12 11:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com
Your sister has good taste in movies, but we can't be friends unless you like Tank Girl. If you liked Tank Girl, you wouldn't have had so many technical issues. True story.

Date: 2012-09-13 12:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com
But but but... I like being friends with you and I don't like Tank Girl! WHAT AM I TO DO?

Date: 2012-09-13 01:50 am (UTC)
china_shop: Vid ALL the things (Vid ALL the things)
From: [personal profile] china_shop
Wheeeee! I enjoyed that very much. The song is perfect, and I liked how you incorporated the stills/comic artwork. Even if you're not totally happy with it, I for one am glad you released it. Yay!

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