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May. 21st, 2007
My First Music Video!
May. 21st, 2007 09:24 pmYeah, it's silly. I've been in the entertainment industry for YEARS and I even specialized in music videos back before digital cameras and digital editing became commonplace. I've logged in hours on top of hours in a linear edit suite on both video tape and film and I'm quite good at synching up audio to the video that matches it, particularly matching voice to mouth movement. I've even built a digital editing computer back when firewire was so new, Fry's Electronics hadn't heard of it yet.
But I've never edited anything non-linearly before!
Everyone keeps telling me it's easy, I'm pretty good with computers when I'm not being lazy and having my more experienced friends fix stuff for me. I have all the knowledge for the hows and the whys that underly the digital realm (just like I know the background in photography and film development that helps me to understand Photoshop better). I just never got around to doing it.
I really enjoy the band Nickel Creek. I can't find my mp3s of their music since my last computer crashed. I recently downloaded all their music I could find and I favorited some of their videos on YouTube.
They do a bluegrass cover of Toxic (yeah, the Britney Spears song). I know it sounds wierd, but really, it's a cool cover. But I don't think they recorded it anywhere, so I can only find hidden camera-phone recordings online, both audio only and video/audio. The videos all suck. They're low resolution and they jump and move all over the place, making me dizzy.
So I took the best audio recording I could find, and made a slideshow using still images of them I found online (funny, I didn't think of looking on their website, and now I wish I had - they are better quality pictures). I think it's a cut above most normal slideshow music videos because I actually took the time to place images that corresponded to their place in the song, and I made the cuts and transitions match the audio, just like I would have back in my old music video editing days of yore.
So, please check out the video and let me know what you think! Keep in mind that none of the sources, audio or imagery, is my own, so I had no control over the quality of either. I'd like some feedback so I can improve and move into this whole digital media era. I miss celluloid!
But I've never edited anything non-linearly before!
Everyone keeps telling me it's easy, I'm pretty good with computers when I'm not being lazy and having my more experienced friends fix stuff for me. I have all the knowledge for the hows and the whys that underly the digital realm (just like I know the background in photography and film development that helps me to understand Photoshop better). I just never got around to doing it.
I really enjoy the band Nickel Creek. I can't find my mp3s of their music since my last computer crashed. I recently downloaded all their music I could find and I favorited some of their videos on YouTube.
They do a bluegrass cover of Toxic (yeah, the Britney Spears song). I know it sounds wierd, but really, it's a cool cover. But I don't think they recorded it anywhere, so I can only find hidden camera-phone recordings online, both audio only and video/audio. The videos all suck. They're low resolution and they jump and move all over the place, making me dizzy.
So I took the best audio recording I could find, and made a slideshow using still images of them I found online (funny, I didn't think of looking on their website, and now I wish I had - they are better quality pictures). I think it's a cut above most normal slideshow music videos because I actually took the time to place images that corresponded to their place in the song, and I made the cuts and transitions match the audio, just like I would have back in my old music video editing days of yore.
So, please check out the video and let me know what you think! Keep in mind that none of the sources, audio or imagery, is my own, so I had no control over the quality of either. I'd like some feedback so I can improve and move into this whole digital media era. I miss celluloid!
