I wrapped my music video this morning on Windows Media Maker which actually was not too bad of a program to work with and very similar principle as Premiere and I-Movie. I got obsessive about the sound and video synching so that was time consuming. I am going to sleep now but I have no pillow.
I will need lots of tea and crumpets for today's class. If anyone has my cell please call me if I do not get into class in the morning. I fear that I may sleep through my alarm clock set for 2 hours from now.
The Adobe Premiere trial download is not working as well. I have a feeling it is another Windows Vista issue. Did anyone else try this download on Windows? After 2 more hours of frustration I am finally getting my video to transfer with Windows Movie Maker. The Motown I am listening to in the background is the only thing keeping me sane right now.
Attempts at transferring video to IMovie at the lab were technically thwarted. Ack. I've retreated to other options.
A new discovery finds a French recording from 1860 as being the oldest known voice recording. The voice was recorded on a phonautogram which etched sound waves on paper coated with soot and oil to create a visual recording. More details here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080328/ap_on_hi_te/earliest_recording
So I was blogging on about Ben Burtt and his ability to take a lawn mower and turn it into the Millenium Falcon. I was checking to see if my sound files made the jump to cyberspace and one of them had a happy accident (I must have transferred from my recording device to my HP at a sped up rate!?!?... The result sounds like a Jawa happy hour at the local spaceport.
I thought I would share this segment from David Lynch's book that I am reading - "Catching The Big Fish"
Sound page 67
"... Sound is so important to the feel of a film. To get the right presence for a room, the right feel from the outside, or the right-sounding dialogue is like playing a musical instrument. You have to do a lot of experimenting to get that just right. It usually happens after the film is cut. But I'm always trying to gather what I call "firewood." So I have piles of things I can go to and see if they'll work. You just have to pop one sound in, and you realize right away, Oh, that is not working. - David Lynch
The following collection of "Wintry Mix" audio files is from the sound project that I recorded a few weeks ago. It was a challenging excercise to capture sound considering the equipment that I was using proved difficult to effectively record the sound unless you were very close up.
I always enjoyed learning the behind the scenes sound capturing techniquest of foley artists and sound designers especially that of Star Wars' Ben Burtt. He would combine many different ordinary sounds to create the lush soundscape of the Star Wars film series. He would also comment on his adventures with a special boom mic asking people if he could record their specific car engine, lawn mower, crop duster etc as these everyday items had a unique sound after years of mechanical use or environmental factors making the sound stand out. I can't say that I captured any Ben Burtt worthy sounds but this is a start and I can appreciate the process that sound designers go through. I think rule #1 is always have a recorder and always be ready to record at a moments notice.
Observation on Energy Clip- This was a mashup of actually playing skee-ball while AC/DC was on in the background for pardon the pun Energy. The recording did not live up to my actual live experience of the event.
Damned by old software. I was excited that I did some editing with a vintage Powerbook running newer software- the same model Carrie Bradshaw uses on Sex and the City for the still photography video editing project. It was slow but worked, however the software for IMovie was not the most current so the transfer did not gel when transferring my HP or to Vox.
