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My latest Cloud Looney Land Adventure
https://youtu.be/bWwsbCi48Yw
ericlnz wrote:Thanks Gordon. We have the Australian version of the Swamp Hen here known as Pukeko.
I'm feeling nostalgic tonight so here's something different made six years ago. At Peace - https://vimeo.com/209876674
Nice job Eric. Somehow not depressing.
ericlnz wrote:Thanks Paul. Yes it should look familiar
PS: You make good use of your "better half"! Was she allowed to make the purchases?
YES! .. But I wouldn't use the word "allowed". I have little control over her. Amy is an artist. She bought that Lamy Safari pen in that shop in Devonport and still uses it.
I like to make a record of what things we have bought on our travels.
ericlnz wrote:Devonport - I nearly forgot. My short 1979 film was for my movie club's "50 ft uncut competition". That is no editing allowed. It all had to be done with your camera at time of shooting. With Std 8 you were allowed one splice being the one Kodak made after developing your film and splitting and joining the two halves. Std 8 reels were 16 mm in width.
Making uncut films did require planning. I'd take my title, then go out and shoot, then do the end title(s). When converting to digital a few years ago I redid the title on the timeline and removed any flash frames. These are the overexposed frames you sometimes got at the start of a scene as your camera got up to speed.
Doing superimposed titles was an extra challenge. The film needed to be wound back and run through the camera a second time. A nightmare with Super 8 cartridges. I recall having a gadget that allowed me to wind back the film a short amount but it had to be done in a "changing bag". That's a black bag with arms so you could work by feel in the dark. Plus the hardest part was shooting twice on the same area of film. We have it so easy nowadays.
Oh boy oh boy .. You took me back to 8mm days. We did the same thing. I rarely did any editing. It was all done in the camera. I remember using a "whip pan" for a transition. But I never rolled the film back to do a superimposition. I don't think that was possible with Super 8mm cartridges??? I never owned a Reg 8mm camera but I had a friend who did and we made several "trip" films together. We staged things and were well aware of editing in the camera.
Changing bags. Ahhhh yes. I did use changing backs to load 400 foot cores for the 16mm Arriflex and Eclair.
We certainly do have it easy today. I am still constantly amazed at what one can do by themselves in regards to film making.
ericlnz wrote:Whilst going through some old videos to show at my monthly video group meeting I came across this old SD video I made of Devonport https://vimeo.com/50461456. Only 5 minutes. An interesting corner of Auckland.
Excellent as always .. We took the Ferry out to Devonport back in 2013 .. So some of it looked familiar. It struck me that it was a fair amount of hard work to get the coverage. You had to spend some time and effort to get the shots you did. I assume that the script gets written after you review the footage. I wondered if you had some "Town guide" that gave you ideas for things locations and things to shoot?
When you set out to do a video, do you think of who is going to see it? That was clearly the case with Gordon in his recent post. I always think of our two girls as my audience. But it turns out, I'm my best audience. I love to view my own stuff years later. My wife also enjoys our trip videos. She thinks they're too short !!! Imagine that !
My technique for "trip video" is different. I try to make a video record of where we went, what we saw and most importantly what comments we might have had at the time. I also love to get shots and comments from the locals we run into. The trick is to buy something -- then they don't object to being filmed.
Devonport .. 6 min.
https://vimeo.com/827858524?share=copy
GStree wrote:Hi, I went to a local street party for the Coronation on Sunday and took a few shots that I strung together on Sunday night. I could have made a better job in editing but the residents wanted it quickly.
Obviously it is interesting to the locals as it is a bit of history, they were the only village in our area to actually make an effort to organize it. At least the weather held out and we actually had some sun towards the end of the day.
Sue and I are of to Spain for a while at the weekend where I shall endeavor to try and make some decent films. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nO4x0BDlB4
Deadly dull home movie footage .. the residences must have loved it !! ... The thing is that a hundred years from now, historians will, no doubt, prefer this footage to the glowing sun sunsets and snow covered mountains so many of us take time to shoot.
You've capture the way it was and how ordinary people gathered in good fellowship in a time when you'd think that spirit had long departed from modern life.
Good job of shooting faces for historical record.
Thanks Eric .. The music could be Lord of the Rings .. I don't remember what I used. This little piece was tucked away online and I happened on it while looking for something else. I keep telling myself that I'll get all these video pieces organized.
This brings up a thought about YouTube. How long will they keep my videos? It's hard to imagine how much stuff they actually have. The sheer weight of the stuff must someday collapse the Universe.
Ran across this little video I made nearly 10 years ago while in England.
A unique experience -- "Bells of Dedham". Runs about 10 min. The end few minutes is the best.
This little piece got over 5,000 hits on youtube !! Yippppeee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aniat5vLucs&t=1s
chevyman wrote:I recently went into Serif to make some changes to my site (thecanadianschooloffrenchmarquetry.com) and found all the pages in the work area to have big X's marked across them and some random superimposed lettering as well. I'm afraid to try to make changes, haven't even tried yet, because the site as viewed online doesn't seem to be failing except for a couple of little glitches that I was going in to fix and I don't want to upload problems.
I'm using WebPlus X8. I designed the site several years ago and although I'm no techie it has served me well enough.
I'm attaching a screenshot of what my workspace looks like. Can anyone help me out?
Thanks,
Paul
Looks to me like a template. The random lettering comes from a template. Did you use a template to build the site?
ericlnz wrote:Thanks Gordon. Very nice. It's what I'd call an Audio Visual.
I made something similar ten years ago. Not as good as yours. Mine was made to play Kevin MacLeod's "Last Kiss Goodnight", a track that I find haunting.
https://vimeo.com/98603064
Haunting. That describes it. Nice music. Nice work Eric.
I wish the world would slow down and smell the roses. But fat chance.
I've never made one of these flower/song videos. You guys are inspiring me to try one. Who knows?
GStree wrote:Apart from bands and wedding videos I don't tend to make many videos that would appeal to many others. We came back from Spain on Tuesday and as the weather has started to buck up today in the UK I had a look around the garden at the flowers. I normally try and do time lapse of the plants opening but they are not that far advanced this year.
This is a short film from last year that I made at a similar time from still images that I took off of my camcorder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzESpcoWgpI
Nice and relaxing. Quiet the opposite pace of modern times, but what do the flowers care?
Speaking of A.I. .. Here's my little A.I. Movie .. This is the same one I recently posted on the Vegas Forum. Eric saw it over there. But what the heck, I'll post it here too.
This little robot story was written with the help of ChatGPT.
Romulus 13 min.
https://youtu.be/tBE2qAcqmuc
That's the idea Alan .. sounds much better as the ambient sound covers some of the harshness as the dialogue punches in
.. No doubt about it, the "removal" software that does this sort of thing has improved, apparently due to A.I.
GStree wrote:pberk wrote:WOW. Pretty good. It doesn't sound natural -- but it is clear and not a hint of the piano. That means separating those piano frequencies or something.
What's the software? Same as Alan is using?
I use the Splitter Studio software that is free but I believe that the upgrades (that you have to pay for) are better. However the problem with most of this type of software is that although it can remove the background sound of certain frequencies it wont remove the other background human voices of people talking at the same time as you. Obviously it could be possible as human voices are different, but it would mean it would have to be more sophisticated and be more "hands on" to control it.
I agree that it doesn't sound "natural" but have found that most times that I have used it (like for wedding videos) I have then put in the same background music (but at a lower volume) that disguises it somewhat and I have got away with it. Something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcoU62njOE4
WOW.. Double wow Gordon .. sounds great that way .. proves it can be done. You've had some practice at this. And it proves me wrong when i said that "we're going to have to loop this entire section" .. Good stuff to master as SOUND IS IMPORTANT.
WOW. Pretty good. It doesn't sound natural -- but it is clear and not a hint of the piano. That means separating those piano frequencies or something.
What's the software? Same as Alan is using?
GStree wrote:pberk wrote:Dialogue replacement is easy compared to reducing background when taking "live music sync sound".
I'd say you already know that a sound mixer and as many separator mic's you can get are the best way to control the background sound. You want some of the audience sound, don't you?
Of course, however I will record from an audio recorder from up in the audience as well to get the complete acoustics of the venue. I will then mix it in with the "clinical" sound from the desk that also does pick up some of the audience via the bands microphones. Did you watch the link that I sent on my last post regarding your Looped film ? I think you will notice the improvement ?
This is confusing. What Alan did -- and Gordon did too -- was to use the "looped" footage to extract the piano background. The challenge would be to extract the piano on the original footage and sound. The "looped" section of the footage I original posted uses a different piano recording for background, and of course, a much cleaner and stronger voice track which was dubbed. So the "looped" section has the dubbed voice recorded separately and a "canned" piano track mixed with it. No live sound at all. As I said the challenge would be to extract the background piano from the original "live sync sound" track. Hence no dubbing or "looping" involved.
Get it?
Confused?
Dialogue replacement is easy compared to reducing background when taking "live music sync sound".
I'd say you already know that a sound mixer and as many separator mic's you can get are the best way to control the background sound. You want some of the audience sound, don't you?
I say it again .. amazing ..
That's amazing Alan .. what software did that?
I go way back when we did 16mm double system sound .. maintaining lip sync was a chore. My wife got very very good at spotting something that was just one frame out of sync. To this day we notice when broadcast TV has it out of sync.
I've done lots of "looping" (as I call it), by just re-recording the dialogue immediately after hearing it played back, trying to reproduce the dialogue pacing, feeling etc. In other words, mimicking the original.
Eric, you did a marvelous job of dialogue replacement. I'm sure very very few would ever notice it.
I posted this little one minute demo on "looping" long ago on the Vegas Forum. Worth repeating here. At the time I was investigating all kinds of software that claimed it could eliminate "background" noise in the audio track. "Looping" or "Dubbing" is many times a much better way. And actually not that hard.
Looping .. 1 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFCfYV0-yTY
ericlnz wrote:But what I wonder about is why you don't make an appearance in them?
Simple - I'm behind the camera! But here's one I made two years ago where I do appear at the beginning. Made shortly after I moved into my retirement village. The bush at the bottom has lost a few trees as has the village. The Hebe bush I'm sure has now gone and a few other are dying off as they had their roots pulled out during a storm. Plus nearby houses up high have had landslips and lost ground.
https://vimeo.com/538265156
Nice Eric .. did you "loop" the opening dialogue? It's nearly perfect but I thought I detected an over-dub.
Since we have a little action here now, I've got another "trip" video for you.
Get yourself a glass of wine and see how we spent the day on a wine tour in Napier, NZ back in 2013 while traveling on Cunard's Queen Elizabeth.
Napier .. 9 min.
https://youtu.be/Db4nMTVkNDg
GStree wrote:I have been spending the last week or so filming bands down here, but today Sue and I went for a walk out the back of our "Place in the Sun" where I was amazed at how much has grown on the ground since it was bulldozed and flattened to make way for even more holiday homes.
This was done about 4/5 years back but stumbled because of a right of way problem from the main road that no doubt will be sorted out when someone receives enough money !
As it is right on the side of very high ground, huge drainage culverts have been installed that you can actually walk through under the complete site. Although we don't tend to get much rain down this part, when it does it causes flash floods that have to be seen to believe !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnZ__XBcwQ8
Thanks for sharing your walk about. It was nice to see Sue ( I assume that's Sue) exploring. I wanted to hear what her thoughts were. I'm just curious that way.
ericlnz wrote:pberk wrote:Quiet here so I will post a video hoping to wake things up.
This one is about a great little museum in Pasadena, The Norton Simon.
Thanks Paul. Very interesting.
Here's one from myself. Odds and ends from recent outings during our crazy summer. Crazy because of the storms and intense rainfall. Eight minutes long covering four places so each one's just a short visit.
Video Snapshots - https://vimeo.com/812726138
Nice work as always Eric .. your videos are always informative and nicely paced. But what I wonder about is why you don't make an appearance in them?
GStree wrote:pberk wrote:Quiet here so I will post a video hoping to wake things up.
This one is about a great little museum in Pasadena, The Norton Simon.
Only about 6 min. https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/11197112
Interesting video. It is good that some people actually spend their vast fortunes on something that others will enjoy for years long after they have past on.
At this moment I am in Spain making videos for various bands for another week after a horrendous couple of months in the UK with 5 funerals, I also got an email at the weekend to say that another of my old friends has past away last Friday !
Good grief .. you've had a time of it .. carry on is all that can be said.
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