Week 10: Music video part 1 of 2

Screenings:

-Michael Jackson's "Thriller"

-Michael and Janet Jackson's "Scream"

-Bambi sings Soulja boy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdi48oUdZP0

-Lasse Gjertsen's "Amateur"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzqumbhfxRo

Morphing tutorial

http://library.creativecow.net/articles/zwar_chris/morph.php



to change your DVD footage to usable MOVs

MPEG Streamclip
http://www.squared5.com/

mac the ripper
http://www.mactheripper.org/
-remove copy-protection from a DVD

dvdXdv
Handbrake

Places to download free footage:
archive.org
prelinger archive

Places to get music:

Limewire
Off a CD
iTunes
-comes Locked.
-take a blank CD and burn from iTunes a CD.
-lower-left corner "Burn Disc"

FCP and AE hate MP3s
-open it in QT player
-File/Export/Sound to AIFF

Google code to take music offa people's websites:
searches for music based on Song or Artist you input

intitle:index.of "mp3" +"Song or Artist" -htm -html -php -asp "Last Modified"



1st part: gathering your video and your music
either: a) retime half of your piece
b) roughcut of all of your piece

Quality 1st, Duration 2nd.
-Listen to music
-Pick out a 20-30 sec maximum section.
in Final cut, edit that music.

1-edit music in FC
2-rough edit of picture in FC
3-RETIME in FC or AE
advantage of FC: realtime playback
advantage of AE: kickass frame blending.
4-color-correction, transitions, and visual effects

iPodRip
-to rip music from your iPod to computer

mediaconverter.org
-convert music from YouTube

keepvid.com
-convert video from YouTube

if you wanna do lipsynch, here are mouth charts:

Select your MP3 file, and File/Open With
-Quicktime player
-File/Export
-Export Audio to AIFF, saved to Assets folder

Open FCP
-Set your Scratch Disks to your FCP folder (within wk9_retime)
-FCP menu/System Settings
-Save my project to that same FCP folder

Double-click my sequence, and go to Sequence/Seq Settings
(apple-zero)
-Check my format. NTSC DV works most times.
-in Seq Settings, go to Timeline tab.
-Click the box next to "Show Audio Waveforms"
-Cut the audio using Blade tool and Arrow to select.
-Rt-click the end of the clip to get a fade.
-double-click the fade to change its length.

Adjust audio levels
-Acceptable levels Peak at -10Db

Open your archive.org video in QT player
-use the brackety things to make your video selection
-Go to Edit/Copy
-File/New Player
-Edit/Paste

Convert your weird format to a good editing format
-File/Export
-Export: Movie to QT movie
-Use: Default Settings
-HIT OPTIONS
-Settings:
-framerate 29.97
-Keyframes all
-Millions of colors
-Quality Best
-Size
-NTSC 720x480
-Preserve aspect using Letterbox
-Sound:
-Linear PCM or Apple Lossless
-Stereo, 48.000, Best, 16, No boxes checkd below.
-Turn off "Prep for internet Streaming"

Imported our video into FC
-Made sure our Seq Settings (Apple zero in FC) matched those from QT Inspector (Apple i in Quicktime)
-lay my new video on track 2 of my timeline.
-delete my old audio
-Un-clicking the "Link selection" button on upper right corner of the timeline
-Click the audio, hit Delete
-cut up my video (Blade and arrow)
-Set in and out points on my Timeline for the duration of my 1st beat. (this will show up in the upper left of the Canvas window)

create a new seq, call it "work" have the same seq settings as orig seq
-copy-paste your 1st shot into "work"
-double-click the 1st shot, and go to Motion tab
-Time Remap
-In Duration, input the length of that 1st beat

Output from FC to AE
-Choose your shots in FC
-edit your audio in FC
(if you need more than 2 audio edits, don't do it in AE)
-set in and out points on timeline, 1 shot at a time
-File/Export/Image sequence. Tiffs, @your framerate, Best quality (no compression), Millions of colors
-Do this for each shot
-Set in and out points on the timeline around your audio
-File/Export/Audio to AIFF, Stereo mix
-SAVE all this to Assets folder

In Ae

AE/Pref/Import: set the Sequence Footage framerate to that of our FC Sequence.
Drag in our folders o' images, and our AIFF.
Drag our AIFF into a new comp
Show the columns In and Out on your timeline (Ctrl-clicking the header row and choosing in and out)
-Have each "sequence" of images start 1 frame after the last one ends.

Select our audio layer.
-Hit L twice to see the waveform
-Select our shots, NOT our audio
go to Layer/Time/Enable Time remapping

the keyframes are based on what actual frame of video we're seeing. timing of our retimedshot vs. time on the timecode of the Timeline.
-something goes faster if the framecount betw keyframes is larger than the framecount in the timecode.
-something goes backwards if the time remap value goes let's say from 3:00 to 2:00 while the timecode is going 1:00 to 2:00
-slower if time remap goes over a few frames while timecode goes many. time remap from 0-10 frames while we're watching those 10 frames for 5 seconds! SLO-Mo

Homework:
-15 sec to 1:30 of music selected and cut in FC
-Footage shot/collected
-Rough edit created in FC
-Bring headphones next week!