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Todd, On May 22, 2012, at 7:49 AM, todd reynolds wrote: > wow. i'm glad that came through past my eyes again! That's beautiful > both on the video AND the audio Ted. Rockin'. really amazing. > > Can you tell me a little about it? from both angles? Is it final cut? > Is that your rig over some great IDM drums? how did you write it and > compile it? > > All the best, > > todd Thanks for the kind words todd. I really appreciate it. When I first created and posted that thing last October (if I recall), only Rainer Straschill seemed to be particularly interested in the process I was using. He offered a few critiques and compliments, and asked how I had done it all. Rather than bore the pants off the list as a whole, I posted these two replies directly to him: Response #1 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer, I don't even know what IDM means (though I think I can guess). The basic underlying "beat" tracks were an out-take of the collaboration I did with Krispen Hartung last year "Dance Music for Inanimate Objects" <http://www.krispenhartung.com/dance/index.html> Not wanting it to go to waste, I just decided to regurgitate [my part of] it back up and do my "let's throw everything but the kitchen sink at it and see what happens" thing. The looped guitar parts (and several other things) all were played and added yesterday. It's a bit of a chaotic mess admittedly - but I sometimes like musical chaotic messes. I was invited to do it for for a compilation CD a friend of mine is putting together - for which it had to fit a 4-minute time slot limitation. It started out as a segment about 2-3 times as long snipped from a three and a half hour recording session. Does that make sense? It's not a genre I think of as "my own" natively (I don't dance or go to clubs). So, yes, it is just something I thought I could do . . . or try beginning a few years back. Thanks for the critique. Sincerely, Ted Response #2 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer, On Oct 31, 2011, at 3:55 AM, Rainer Straschill wrote: Frankly, I was more interested in how you did the video here* ;). Did I miss the explanation in your mail, or did you decide not to "dance about architecture" in that case? I did not It is fairly simple actually. In iMovie, I placed a few hundred (500-600) still images from my collection of things gathered and created over decades - personal images, things I created, things I [found and] like, or that mean something to me. I essentially made a slide show with no transitions between images (no crossfades or wipes, just instant change) and set the duration of each image to a mere fraction of a second (0.0625 sec.). Yet, this was still not fast enough, so I brought the resulting video clip into another program, HyperEngine Montage, where I could speed it up even more. I made two versions - one clip had about 12.5 frames per second, and the other one 25 (about as fast as video will allow). Still in HyperEngine Montage, I superimposed these two video streams [loops actually] on top of one another and did an extremely slow (4 minute long) crossfade between them. What you see at the beginning of the video (after the count-in and title etc.) is the slide show at 12.5 frames per second.. Ever so slowly, this transitions (via the long crossfade) to one that is twice as fast - which is what you see at the end. This is why there is all the mish mash of oddly flickering images in the middle section (where, by design, the music gets a bit odd and mixed up too). I am just learning this stuff. The other couple of videos that I posted a month or two ago were created from royalty-free stock VJ loops that I bought a few libraries of and cobbled together. This video was all original from me (as far as content goes). In many ways I feel the video is more successful than the music. But neither is especially great. I can do better . . . and hope to. Like I said, I am still learning. Best, Ted